Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managing projects across countries , and linking different databases on different equipment , are challenging and interesting prospects for information managers , and will oblige us to acquire scarce and commercially valuable expertise , available later for consultancy . |
| 2 | Moreover , we know that people who are born with severe motor impairments develop normal and sometimes supra-normal intelligence . |
| 3 | While it is perfectly valid for children to step back from what they have been doing in drama and write about it , the exciting alternative of writing ( or drawing , or carrying out scientific experiments ) within the context of the drama , as the characters they are playing , produces lively and highly motivated work . |
| 4 | This chapter indicates , too , that it may be profitable to re-examine old and currently unfashionable case studies . |
| 5 | Merrill watched him covertly , wondering if she would have had the courage to sit here if she had known that he would come in ; wondering if she would have joined another and more distant club had she known that he was the commodore here . |
| 6 | The new Captain 's Carvery room is proving popular and very good value . |
| 7 | They should also be of a type that has simple and quickly altered bridle trimming . |
| 8 | Arrangements can be made to provide basic and more advanced tuition in the use of computers in legal and social research . |
| 9 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 10 | He also designed new and much improved axle bearings , which largely eliminated the overheating which had caused serious traffic delays . |
| 11 | When applied in a commercial or public sector decision making context , it typically consists of three elements : eliciting from the decision making body its view of the likelihood of different possible futures relevant to the project under decision : assessing its valuation of alternative ways of tackling the project for all of the possible futures envisaged : suggesting the most appropriate course of action in the light of the two previous steps , using explicit and theoretically justifiable evaluation procedures . |
| 12 | He glanced at her , being taken aback to find her looking strained and as near plain as anyone with her looks was going to . |
| 13 | One means of enhancing the appearance of your home , and at the same time greatly improving security , is to replace old and badly fitting softwood framed windows with upvc or hardwood double glazed units . |
| 14 | Club records , and such photographs , often yield interesting and sometimes amusing information on many aspects of past local activities , and may well record architectural features long gone/ |
| 15 | Information is usually abundant in developed countries , and the problem is to choose reliable and sufficiently comprehensive information sources . |
| 16 | As with make , however , a closer examination of have shows that it contrasts with order , tell and get in denoting concurrent and not antecedent causality . |
| 17 | Semantic relationships show aspects of the genus-species relationships and are expected to reflect assumed and widely accepted subject relationships . |
| 18 | So many refugees had passed that way already , and the steamers were dirty with no accommodation , so that again we slept side by side on the decks , and ate cold and rather horrible curry and rice on filthy plates . |
| 19 | This is not necessarily an increase in your workload : drafting and redrafting allows lower-intensity and less stressful work than packing everything into a single and decisive act of composition . |
| 20 | The only other candidate , Token Ring , allows faster and more secure traffic around a network ; but it 's more expensive to implement . |
| 21 | On the back of this approach , which is sound enough , he was to evolve complicated and hopelessly over-ambitious merchandising plans . |
| 22 | Hence , the challenge for GIS user interface design is to gain credibility for generic forms of interface : it is this form of GIS use that will ensure wider and more informed use of GIS in the years ahead . |
| 23 | This warm water collides , at around 36°N , with the southbound cold Oya Shio — part of the small , anti-clockwise current system in the Bering Sea — causing huge and navigationally hazardous fog banks to form , four days out of ten . |
| 24 | Power stations produce electricity for our homes and industry , they 're surrounded by thousands of acres of wild land This wild land has developed into some of the nation 's most remarkable nature reserves For seven days a week , twenty four hour a day routine at the power station can provide unique and also surprising cover for all kinds of wild life . |
| 25 | Once there is a break in the skin , there is a great risk that the sore can become infected and so correct treatment is essential . |
| 26 | Yes , the Germans have always had gigantic and very refined apparatus and have done a vast amount of hard work . |
| 27 | And if British farmers do not anticipate the changes needed , then supermarkets , responding to consumer demand , will simply import more and more foreign food instead , warns Professor James . |
| 28 | They wear heavy and very ornate armour resplendent with plumes and ribbons . |
| 29 | And to rub salt into the wounds , we will have to pay more for our electricity in order to subsidise nuclear and deep mined coal . |
| 30 | The ‘ limited ’ intrusion of ‘ strict liability ’ into criminal law could be expanded to cover more and more corporate behaviour so that the issue of responsibility and intention becomes subsidiary to the more pressing need to compensate victims and make the offending corporation foot the bill . |