Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Science is expected to be able to provide a guarantee that a bridge of some design will withstand various stresses and not collapse , but not that all bridges of that design will be satisfactory . |
| 2 | Trainees should be given basic skills and then choice could be made later on as something forced on the individual by the structure of the labour market . |
| 3 | Friction includes cumbersome procedures and also lack of feedback information . |
| 4 | The Creoles have recently been shown to be tonal , to express grammatical relations and even vocabulary differences ( though rarely ) through relative pitch differences on individual syllables . |
| 5 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 6 | I realised there was no going back — that pregnancy meant 18 years and then college … ’ |
| 7 | Many scalding accidents occur when people move from the cooker to the sink to drain off boiling hot vegetables and either trip or drop the pan . |
| 8 | I think it began after World War One , when workers demanded fair wages and better working conditions . |
| 9 | The pencils are also suited to line drawing , making strong marks and even sgraffito to create solidity , contrast and precision . ’ |
| 10 | If we reject cyclic ideas and even uniformitarianism , what have we left ? |
| 11 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 12 | Thus the theory predicts low speeds and thus safety ; the observed reality is one of inappropriately high speeds . |