Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Labour party failed to mount a sufficiently large campaign against the non-intervention policy , there seems little doubt that the government would have continued along its agreed course . |
| 2 | He told the meeting of MPs that he would prefer to see a more democratically-accountable bank but that he refused to support anything which jeopardised the treaty . |
| 3 | Treatment involves using a very messy ointment which marks the sheets . |
| 4 | The median survival of a year or more with symptoms controlled in most of those treated represents a very satisfactory outcome . |
| 5 | ‘ the remit for UDCs should be altered to provide a more precise definition of ‘ regeneration' ’ ( 1988 , p4 ) |
| 6 | The committee went on to recommend that the remit for UDCs should be altered to provide a more precise definition of ‘ regeneration ’ . |
| 7 | During the course of April , the feelers put out earlier by Baghdad were followed up ; both Talabani and Barzani participated in talks with the Iraqi leadership in which the Kurds sought to secure a more workable version of the autonomy negotiated in 1970 . |
| 8 | Separate provision for young disabled adults did not emerge until the early 1980s , when a group , known as Contact , was formed to provide a more comprehensive facility than existing services . |
| 9 | The company also agreed to provide a more adequate explanation of changes in accounting policy in future , and the Panel welcomed the directors ' intention ‘ to ensure that future notes will include reiteration of the former policy as well as a description of the new policy ’ . |
| 10 | These large juries were clearly intended to provide a reasonably representative sample of popular opinion . |
| 11 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 12 | ‘ You really think I want to see a stunningly beautiful woman strung out on drugs ? ’ |
| 13 | If you want to see a very Greek place that is neither the urban mess of contemporary Athens nor the deracinated tourist prettiness of some of the islands , go to Aegina . |
| 14 | Instead they want to see a more gradual approach backed by a cut in interest rates . |
| 15 | Metals trader Ferromet Group has received a heavily qualified audit report from Touche Ross on its accounts for the year ended 31 December 1991 . |
| 16 | Prior ( property trading and the retailing and wholesaling of architectural ironmongery ) has received a seriously qualified audit report on its accounts for the year ended 31 March 1992 from joint auditors Wilson Wright & Co and Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 17 | Samaranch has received a fairly agreeable press since becoming IOC president in 1980 . |
| 18 | The crustacean , Gigantocypris , has developed a completely different design of mirror-eye . |
| 19 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 20 | This is why Braun has developed a highly advanced health appliance to remove plaque effectively and easily . |
| 21 | Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world 's most gifted directors . |
| 22 | Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world 's most gifted directors . |
| 23 | The soviet Union and the Arab states knew that the United States promised to remain a substantially stronger player in the region . |
| 24 | For one of the founders of the sociology of religion , Emile Durkheim , history showed beyond doubt that religion had come to embrace a progressively smaller sector of social life . |
| 25 | Men or women who achieved success through education , business or political office found they were expected to support a seemingly ever-growing number of relatives , especially nephews . |
| 26 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |