Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logan was keen to court that generation both as readers and as potential writers . |
| 2 | Moss Vale gained a comfortable 5-1 success at Kilversley , with Steve Smith and Paul Donahue each netting twice and Tony Shields rounding off the scoring . |
| 3 | Mr Cruickshank fulfils that criterion admirably and will , I am sure , do a very good job . ’ |
| 4 | We 've got to continue that restraint even as things start to get better , and that means restraints from the top to the bottom , from board room to shop floor . |
| 5 | In 1911 the inaugural conference of the National Council of Public Morals ( NCPM ) announced that prevention rather than punishment was to be the keynote in the regeneration of the nation 's moral life . |
| 6 | The earth thickened and made different sounds underfoot as ash gave way to elm . |
| 7 | It affects or can affect some subjects more than others . |
| 8 | By choosing to transmit some stories rather than others , those in control of television and newspapers can have some impact on political perceptions and values . |
| 9 | However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose . |
| 10 | TGAT had the job of rationalising and elaborating this instruction so that subject working groups would operate to a common format . |
| 11 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 12 | In the community , the fact that many simple , preventive measures are possible is well illustrated in an article by Mitchell ( 1984 ) and these range from encouraging elderly people to wear well-fitting shoes rather than slippers , to the use of alarm systems , and the involvement of neighbours and regular callers to an old person 's house . |
| 13 | PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan told journalists in March 1991 of a challenge to his leadership from a PKK faction willing to accept regional autonomy rather than secession . |
| 14 | Custodians are expected to inform each other immediately when children are moved from one part of the country to another , and the child 's name should be immediately registered in the new locality , pending a case conference . |
| 15 | Scientific correspondents of the UK press expressed surprise rather than incredulity at the Argentine claims . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend should consider that point carefully because people may be misled , as his constituent was . |
| 17 | You found some bits hard and Kelly thought ooh that 's obvious . |
| 18 | ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved . |
| 19 | Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others . |
| 20 | He has less hope even than Faramir . |
| 21 | The effect of a new settlement south east of York would be to increase those levels so that people with from Greater York , would find would not be able to find accommodation within the new settlement and therefore the total housing requirement of Greater York would be increased and housing needs would not be met . |
| 22 | We want to open up lines of communication and provide more information so that people know what is available , tell us when they are pleased with the services and , equally , let us know when they are not . |
| 23 | Man is a spiritual animal and will seek spiritual satisfaction elsewhere if Christianity does not provide it . |
| 24 | Although we support the right-to-buy legislation , we wish that the capital receipts could be used by local authorities to provide affordable housing so that people would not be forced into owner-occupation that they can not afford . |
| 25 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 26 | Instructors should demonstrate correct procedure again and pilots should practise aiming point technique . |
| 27 | One red herring that has been produced by increased language awareness among teachers has been to try to rewrite academic texts so that pupils can cope with them . |
| 28 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 29 | Moreover , men such as the great ecclesiastical architect Abbot Suger of St Denis ( c. 1081–1151 ) , who devoted his later years to composing a laudatory life of the French monarch Louis VI ( 1081–1137 ) , effectively a second founder of the Capetian dynasty , wrote history with the object of producing favourable propaganda rather than documentary facts . |
| 30 | The great advantage of using lower-energy photons rather than X-rays is the greater resolution attainable . |