Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adj] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic . |
| 2 | In addition 60,000 operations had been cancelled or postponed and 75,000 outpatient appointments had been cancelled . |
| 3 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 4 | Answering this question is a complex matter but I suggest that empirical and theoretical investigation is long overdue . |
| 5 | They suggest that social and environmental factors are most important in the early phases of life with biological/genetic factors more important in later life . |
| 6 | Regional considerations suggest that deltaic and pro-deltaic sands can be anticipated in this section . |
| 7 | On the theoretical basis of the work of Karl Pearson and others , which proposed that mental and physical characteristics were primarily determined by genetic inheritance rather than by environment , such ideas enjoyed a minor vogue . |
| 8 | Rayner et al ( 1983 ) propose that semantic and pragmatic information play no part in the initial syntactic choice , however if the syntactic result is ambiguous then semantic and pragmatic influences are used . |
| 9 | ECMT papers report that existing and planned emission controls are bringing about significant reductions in air and noise pollution levels . |
| 10 | But he emphasises that chilled and frozen pastas are different from dried pastas and need different sauces . |
| 11 | I have not forgotten that strange and distant glimmer on your face after you tipped over the last glass . ’ |
| 12 | as if to support this prediction , some newspapers underlined that American and French students were planning to take part , and noted that certain organisers were not English and therefore ‘ outside the consensus ’ ( ibid.:210–11 ) . |
| 13 | This is confirmed by more detailed research evidence , for example Wenger 's ( 1984 ) study of elderly people living in rural North Wales , where she found that married and infirm people had distinctive patterns of personal support , where the spouse was the main helper for every task mentioned . |
| 14 | In his therapeutic work , he found that mental and emotional problems were often reflected in a patient 's physical appearance , and began to think that emotions were ‘ locked into ’ the body by muscular tensions , a good example being the ‘ stiff upper lip ’ and the way that anger can be suppressed by a clenched jaw . |
| 15 | The East Anglia team found that solar and climatic variations since 1750 can only be correlated by including the growing influence of the greenhouse effect . |
| 16 | The main opposition grouping , the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) , was reported on June 2 to have protested that administrative and legal obstacles were being used to prevent sections of the population registering . |
| 17 | The prime responsibility , however , rests with the individual counsellor to establish supportive relationships in which he or she is able to feel that stress is contained and processed and that feedback from those relationships is given in an honest and constructive manner . |
| 18 | In most cells , pH i is actively maintained between 7.00 and 7.40 , almost one unit above the value expected if intracellular and extracellular H + were in electrochemical equilibrium . |
| 19 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 20 | The Fates were thought cruel , for they paid no heed to human suffering and were usually depicted as old and ugly women attended by the shadowy Nemesis , goddess of the inevitable . |
| 21 | On April 18 Ali Salim al-Bid , the YSP secretary-general , visited Iraq , conveying to President Saddam Hussein his country 's support in the face of what he described as Western and Zionist aggression [ see p. 37389 ] and receiving in turn Saddam 's expressions of strong support for Yemeni unity . |
| 22 | These are such a delight in spring , and they too can be included as handsome and outstanding examples of dual-role perennials . |
| 23 | The following activities are designed as skill-building and awareness-raising exercises to be used by groups of teachers : |
| 24 | Working class marriages may perhaps be best considered as economic and emotional support systems . |
| 25 | Widows , the only social position that a traditional society could envisage for a husbandless adult woman , have always been considered as inauspicious and undesirable people . |
| 26 | It turns out to be convenient to put ( 10.9 ) where ψ and λ are considered as time-like and space-like coordinates , which may then be rescaled by putting , . |
| 27 | Here we again use ( 10.9–12 ) and put ( 11.16 ) where ψ and λ are considered as time-like and space-like coordinates , which may then be rescaled by putting . |
| 28 | By the second half of the seventeenth century English politicians realized that military and naval support of the colonies was going to cost money . |
| 29 | You may think that thick and thin Ethernet differ in size , but the main difference between them is the ranges they can cover : a thick Ethernet cable can be 500m long , whereas its skinny relative can only manage 150m . |
| 30 | " The European Council agreed that immediate and decisive action was needed in the face of the impending major human tragedy in former Yugoslavia as winter approached … |