Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is usually staffed by Macintosh enthusiasts who think that they are onto a good thing and often appear to enjoy a remarkably short life span … |
| 32 | Every year a bank statement informs us that the Trust has lopped a mildly painful number of pounds from our far from princely pensions and every year we wonder whether we should continue to belong or not . |
| 33 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 34 | This point is also being registered in relation to sexism in schools ( Wolpe , 1989 ) and has provoked a more general rethinking of educational processes in which poststructuralist theorizing is beginning to exercise a belated , but in my view welcome , influence ( Walkerdine , 1991 ) . |
| 35 | The case of the Vietnamese refugees has highlighted a very broad problem , but within it , of course , there are number of differences and have been particularly involved in the question of people from universities and institutes in the Third World are uprooted and whose work is interrupted by political upheaval . |
| 36 | The Australian Institute has joined an increasingly aggressive campaign against President Keating 's ‘ ridiculous ’ plans to tax employee parking spaces . |
| 37 | In some respects , however , Herculaneum is even better-preserved than Pompeii , although it did not escape the attentions of the treasure seekers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and it has furnished an even greater wealth of detail than Pompeii on the day-to-day life of a flourishing Roman town . |
| 38 | The sample of courses chosen by Molloy and Carroll was designed to include a relatively high proportion of NSE students and it provides very useful material about the relative performance of SE and NSE students on these courses . |
| 39 | No one has given a completely convincing explanation of what Mazzocchi may have meant by ‘ mezz'Arie ’ . |
| 40 | Region 's image is First Class NORTHUMBRIA Tourist Board , which wants to promote a more upmarket image for the region , has adopted a new logo carrying the slogan First Class . |
| 41 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 42 | The reason for this can be traced historically to the fact that research on creativity in academic psychology has formed a quite separate strand of enquiry from that originating in the early pathographic analyses carried out by medical writers . |
| 43 | Moreover the hitherto unstoppable rise in property value has formed an apparently solid base for the credit spiral which so bedevils government economic policy . |
| 44 | These changes are designed to provide a more accurate reflection of the roles of the various officers . |
| 45 | The shielding with the collimator supplied by the manufacturers was insufficient as it caused a high background level , and hence a new lead collimator was designed to provide a more directional response . |
| 46 | Work schemes of this type are , none the less , especially difficult to fund , and neither the NHS nor social services have regarded them as their responsibility , a situation which must change if we want to provide a more fulfilling life for people with mental disorder . |
| 47 | It may have sounded odd to only have an 18in tube for a four foot tank , but this is another attempt to try to establish a more natural environment . |
| 48 | In order to prevent a drain of young English cricketers to South Africa during the winter , the TCCB has to provide a suitably well-rewarded alternative and it is in this area that Subba Row 's successor will need to shine . |
| 49 | DOCOMOMO is the euphoniously named international working party for the DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings , sites and neighbourhoods of the MOdern MOvement , which held its first conference in Eindhoven last month and has attracted an astonishingly strong ground swell of support . |
| 50 | First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . |
| 51 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 52 | Rather , they appear to demand a relatively straightforward attempt at a political reading of the situation rather than the citing of some supposed mental or cultural condition . |
| 53 | With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company . |
| 54 | She has just started at Luton Sixth Form College , in Bedfordshire , but she has picked a more varied menu than the traditional sixth form diet of three A-levels . |
| 55 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 56 | A PIG farmer took his animals out of a quarantine zone designed to contain a highly contagious disease , a court heard yesterday . |
| 57 | Even the distinctive signature tune has been re-recorded to provide a more modern feel . |
| 58 | It is not always easy to use their own in-house people if the chairman or chief executive wants to find a very senior director : then they nearly always go to outside professional advisers for confidentiality , for objectivity and often because the senior headhunters in the major firms are the best , of the highest quality and are paid accordingly . |
| 59 | The clinic you mentioned has a very good reputation . ’ |
| 60 | I tried to find a more comfortable position but there was n't one , really . |