Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He who possessed all things , laid it all aside , he who was rich became poor
2 The security project which is due to go live in October will introduce site and building access control systems and perimeter closed circuit TV monitoring .
3 That discounts tabloid journalists .
4 Table 6.2 summarizes major evaluation projects over the five years from 1982–87 .
5 The problems of political recruitment were also highlighted by the experience of the Soviet Union , where it was possible to categorize certain politically significant types within the Politburo , and the Supreme Soviet .
6 In such a manner it was possible to disconnect spiritual significance from spatial co-ordinates .
7 In the control group there were 14 people still at home at one year , but only eight lived alone and only four did so without closely involved relatives .
8 ‘ I ask you again , ’ he felt his cheeks growing hot , ‘ does that phrase mean anything to you ? ’
9 The privilege from self-incrimination is abrogated in bankruptcy proceedings not by the opening words of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , but by rule 6.175 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 made pursuant to section 412 of the Act of 1986 :
10 I did n't even realise how unhappy I was , as the wounded suffer merciful shock .
11 Up and down , up and down , went that unwearying right foot of hers .
12 That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins .
13 Yeah page seven er er I think that speaking from memory we did want that made clear that that er was the recognition of the achievements of the groundsman handyman , particularly in relation to the high standards of upkeep in the park .
14 It was possible to classify rectal sensations into a group with no sensation , a group with intermittent need for defecation , and a group with continued need for defecation throughout the distension period .
15 Looking in more detail , it is possible to classify seismic activity into four zones .
16 He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat .
17 But we 'll do that using adaptive expectations okay right .
18 It 's very difficult to analyze that using manual systems .
19 Women who are mutilated suffer short and long term health problems ranging from shock and haemorrhage to chronic infections of the uterus and major problems during childbirth .
20 ‘ I know , and I 'm sorry to sound ungrateful .
21 They are now 20 years older and must realise that to remain silent is to prolong the agony for Brian 's parents .
22 The new Masterpieces range of fabric backgrounds from Lastolite is available in a range of colourways , each reflecting rich colours taken from nature , their names , such as Larkspur , Lichen and Nightshade , reflecting this theme .
23 The new Masterpieces range of fabric backgrounds from Lastolite is available in a range of colourways , each reflecting rich colours taken from nature , their names , such as Larkspur , Lichen and Nightshade , reflecting this theme .
24 Much of it has come from work with animals , for here it is possible to arrange particular experiences at particular ages and subsequently test for their effect on the behaviour of mature animals .
25 Having examined the marble buildings of Rome and Athens , it was refreshing to see white marble outdoors still bearing some resemblance to its original seventeenth-century appearance .
26 Sub-Officer Roger Kendall chips in : ‘ We 're always hoping something will happen — I do n't mean that to sound macabre . ’
27 In the case of hard tissue , like teeth and bones , the identification of homology is relatively straightforward because it is possible to compare present forms with the common ancestor and this can be used as an additional criterion for homology .
28 That encourages experiential learning and socialisation in a way that few Western special education or therapeutic settings do .
29 ‘ So all that preening naked on the pool-edge was for my benefit ? ’ he teased .
30 I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt .
  Next page