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 | Also slenderer and has narrower and slightly shorter tail with underside paler and breast of both sexes sometimes almost unspotted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He glanced at her , being taken aback to find her looking strained and as near plain as anyone with her looks was going to . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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/ |
| 16 | Information is usually abundant in developed countries , and the problem is to choose reliable and sufficiently comprehensive information sources . |
| 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 | At a distance many species look similar and only closer examination reveals the difference . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yes , the Germans have always had gigantic and very refined apparatus and have done a vast amount of hard work . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They wear heavy and very ornate armour resplendent with plumes and ribbons . |
| 30 | 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 . |