Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial succeeded in finding several organisational problems but did not achieve its secondary objective because it became clear that the breadth and depth of knowledge needed by the individuals were implicit in the experience needed to do the job and that the individual could work quicker and chop and change subject more easily than the expert system . |
| 2 | Independent control of water supplies to individual sections would facilitate this and the flexibility and effectiveness of the extinguishing system would be further improved if zones could be triggered by remote manual means linked into the automatic system and terminating at the same point as isolation valves and of venting controls . |
| 3 | Inevitably the first two months of 1951–52 promised little or no improvement and the directors decided that Dawes and his colleague would have to go . |
| 4 | The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence . |
| 5 | However , it is important to note and counter the limitations of mainstream approaches to management training , with their top-down assumptions , their tendency to exclude all but the head and senior staff , and their focus on strategies at the expense of educational purposes . |
| 6 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 7 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 8 | In 1931 it seemed unlikely that the Republic and the Basque Nationalists would ever be allies . |
| 9 | In other species , the front of the mantle secretes faster than the rear and creates a shell in a flat spiral , like a watch spring . |
| 10 | Then through the window you could see it-smaller than a Concord and almost completely open with its canvas side-curtains rolled up and fastened-just turning out of the yard , and the next moment the jingling , rattling sound was right out front . |
| 11 | Japan 's devastation of a country which had lost to Namibia on the eve of the World Cup was noting less than a scandal and a disgrace to international rugby . |
| 12 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 13 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 14 | Sometimes the heel on the foot wears less than the toe and sides , so that the frog becomes raised above the ground , and the heel becomes contracted , and the pastern upright . |
| 15 | If you accept her at Lowood school , please make sure that the headmistress and teachers know how dishonest she is . |
| 16 | I tell this because the humility and openness to God of my friend has always been an example to me . |
| 17 | A punch travels faster than a kick and you may be stop-punched by an alert opponent . |
| 18 | It seems strange that the chancel and tower should be given an earlier date than the nave for it is presumed to have been built during the Bishopric of Haymo , who carried out considerable building at Halling . |
| 19 | Readers are also referred back to figure 5.1 and the Bogue and Buffa V-curve . |
| 20 | Overall then it seems likely that the motivation and commitment which is found among many mature students is a major factor in the success of many students with non-traditional qualifications . |
| 21 | The exterior of the rock consequently expands more than the interior and stresses are set up . |
| 22 | Thus , it seems unlikely that the DNA-PK and CKII will compete for phosphorylation of Ser-249 in vivo . |
| 23 | It seems essential that a curriculum and resources audit is carried out annually . |
| 24 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |
| 25 | Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles . |
| 26 | Weapons will be broken open and the plutonium and uranium stockpiled or processed . |
| 27 | If they own their homes , they are likely to have little or no mortgage and some will have inherited property on the death of their parents . |
| 28 | While it may seem obvious that the anus and rectum of a passive homosexual may be sites of infection and should therefore be examined , it may be difficult for women to understand why this same examination needs to be performed on them . |
| 29 | A warning was also given that beach charges might prove inevitable if the government and water authorities did not begin a serious campaign to eliminate sewage pollution . |
| 30 | She had learned all that the moon and the sand could teach her , and she must search elsewhere . |