Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Weekly cash wages payment is likely to rule out credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts , The forms of credit which it encourages are those involving weekly instalments : mail order , trading checks , tallymen and weekly credit callers . |
| 2 | The papacy has been content to issue periodic exhortations in favour of peace and understanding which , in the context of the wholesale slaughter of priests and laymen , amounts to an abdication of all responsibility . |
| 3 | middle managers TOO MUCH ROUND THE MIDDLE Traditionally , a substantial layer of middle management has been necessary to push large quantities of information around an organisation . |
| 4 | During nineteen ninety one the Board has been delighted to open new areas of work in Inverness where our first designated place and associated hostel was opened on a most happened happy day by Sir Russell . |
| 5 | Just as it has been possible to insert beneficial genes into crop plants , there is scope for eliminating , replacing or masking certain genes which have a deleterious effect on crop production . |
| 6 | The Treasury had accepted the idea that international facilities are a cost-effective way to support large-scale research , but is has been reluctant to provide financial incentives to attract such facilities to Britain , following the example of France and Switzerland , because of doubts that they contribute to the country 's economic wealth . |
| 7 | The company says it has been able to generate high levels of repeat income from long term contracts in the financial services area and is keen to collaborate with other suppliers to expand its service and product range . |
| 8 | But she has been able to provide brief descriptions and detectives are now looking for three youths . |
| 9 | Unfortunately this has rebounded on local authorities since , operating under the principle of he who pays the piper calls the tune , Central Government has been able to impose severe restrictions on local authority spending , not only by curbing the total amount of the grant , but also by penalising local authorities who exceed targets imposed by the Central Government . |
| 10 | One reason for this lack of information is that it has been difficult to obtain pure enzymes that are sufficiently active under in vitro conditions . |
| 11 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 12 | I also enjoy being able to use other skills and interests including my languages . |
| 13 | The one reservation with this technique is that in certain years the numbers of L3 which overwinter are sufficient to cause heavy infections in the spring and clinical ostertagiasis can occur in calves in April and May . |
| 14 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 15 | The delay in Britain would have been greater had long-wait specialities such as skin disease not been excluded to allow inter-country comparisons , Dr Douglas Fleming , head of the college 's Birmingham unit , said last night . |
| 16 | It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap . |
| 17 | I 'm glad you said that , Chairman , I was I was just thinking erm , cut out the but , regarding on Equal Opportunities , erm , Policies , as we 've been discussing already , I would have thought housewives would have been delighted to have conservative hours rest presumably I just thought I was |
| 18 | It would have been better to build secure mortuaries rather than putting one 's money into an expensive contraption . |
| 19 | Benhabyles , as chair of the Constitutional Council , should have assumed interim presidential powers in the absence of a Speaker of the National Assembly , but was apparently unwilling to take on this responsibility , under which he would have been obliged to organize presidential elections within 45 days . |
| 20 | This is not , of course , to say that workers would have been prepared to face long-term falls in real earnings . |
| 21 | The situation might or might not have been different had other ports come out resolutely in favour of the London men . |
| 22 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 23 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 24 | Any significant weakening in the authority or military resources of the government would have been liable to unleash rural disturbances on an even greater scale . |
| 25 | The premiums charged by Outhwaite should have been sufficient to cover future claims , but in fact were not because of a heavy spate of asbestos and professional liability claims after 1982 . |
| 26 | Those who had their immunity waived were all noted parliamentary figures : Carlo Tognoli ( PSI ) , the Minister of Tourism in the previous government , two other PSI members Paolo Pillitteri and Renato Massari , Antonio Del Pennino from the Italian Republican Party and Gianni Cervetti from the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS , formerly the Communist Party of Italy ) . |
| 27 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 28 | His statement and robust delivery from the dispatch box in front of an initially sceptical House of Commons appear to have been sufficient to rally Conservative backbenchers . |
| 29 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 30 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |