Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was drunk , but it was not a prophesy or even a sexual invitation , it was an expression of delight . |
| 2 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 3 | Michael Meacher and Frank Field have stressed that only a limited circle of people were actively involved in formulating the industrial policy proposals , and that beyond this circle , understanding of the proposals was rather minimal . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Ogmore said that the opinion polls demonstrated that only a limited number of people would be interested in total deregulation . |
| 5 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |
| 6 | Most importantly , however , we must recognise that neither the individualistic man nor the collectivist man of the philosophers is truly Christian . |
| 7 | While their opponents in 1830 believed that a considerable measure of parliamentary reform would lead to national catastrophe , the Whigs maintained that only a considerable measure could prevent a catastrophe … |
| 8 | However , I now realise that perhaps the only person who felt intimidated by ‘ FE for all ’ was me . |
| 9 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 10 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 11 | The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper . |
| 12 | Before the First World War , many Marxists believed , as we shall see , that world capitalism had become so internationalized that even the political struggle for national independence made no sense ( or worse , it was reactionary ) . |
| 13 | Experts have forecast that even a partial ban will be a blow to Taiwan 's fishing companies , which are already facing recession and rely on driftnetting as the most profitable method . |
| 14 | Towards the end of June , however , it was reported that neither the Irish government nor the Northern Ireland Social and Democratic Labour Party ( SDLP ) could agree to the wording of a statement which Brooke had planned to make and which was to include a consideration of the role to be played by the Irish government in devolution talks . |
| 15 | It was even reported that virtually the entire collection had been stolen … |
| 16 | They found that neither the new port at Gdynia nor Free City status was of much use to them . |
| 17 | He prepared vaccines from these bacteria and found that frequently a marked improvement occurred in the health of the patient after treatment by injection of the appropriate killed vaccine . |
| 18 | Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority . |
| 19 | On the question of training , a survey by the International Labour Organisation found that virtually no European country had a training policy focused on older workers . |
| 20 | I found that quite a hard time erm and especially if you do n't have any family near . |
| 21 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 22 | Then any additional carbon atoms forming the skeleton were added and finally the functional group . |
| 23 | Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines . |
| 24 | Although few patients under investigation for iron deficiency anaemia will be found to have bleeding from the small intestine , these lesions can be difficult to find and therefore a disproportionate amount of time is spent in investigating these patients . |
| 25 | There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’ |
| 26 | Now , imply that there is no stretch , as would be expected because only a pure rotation of axes has been involved . |
| 27 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |
| 28 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 29 | I do not think that even the hon. Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) could accuse that authority of being profligate , but those cuts will affect the care of the elderly in Calderdale . |
| 30 | But Greenpeace insist that only a small percentage of the fish caught by the seals are of interest to the fishermen , and that over-fishing remains the main threat to North Sea fish stocks . |