Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 2 | Earlier , the House heard the hon. Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) make wholly untrue allegations about Labour 's policies with respect to the savings and income from savings of pensioners . |
| 3 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 4 | Unless something in other parts of the legislation discloses such purpose , the courts are forced to adopt one of the two possible meanings using highly technical rules of construction . |
| 5 | We will reform the system for allocating grants to local councils and introduce less centralised rules on capital spending , enabling councils to make prudent long-term investment . |
| 6 | Even using apparently direct measures of morbidity is problematical , as reporting may be different between social groups , especially in response to general questions such as the ‘ limiting longstanding sickness ’ item in the general household survey and 1991 census . |
| 7 | Catching sight of the transistor radio , he clicked it on and fiddled with the tuning , encountering only heavy bands of static interspersed with the twittering gibberish of machines . |
| 8 | He was already gathering together various pieces of paper . |
| 9 | After he had eaten he lit a small oil lamp to dispel the gathering gloom , and by its light fought off the silence by indulging in some desultory tidying , which consisted of gathering together assorted scrolls of papyrus and articles of clothing scattered about , and dumping them into two chests — one for each . |
| 10 | If widened to include less obvious frauds in insurance , tax evasion and financial dealings , the costs rise to £52 billion , or 9 per cent of gross national product . |
| 11 | The old Poor Law Board and the Medical Office had developed highly distinctive forms of administration which were fundamentally conflictual in terms of aims and professional practice . |
| 12 | The anecdotes and examples chosen to add colour to strictly academic material revealed highly sexist ideas about history , the pupils ' homes or their own knowledge or interests . |
| 13 | Shadow lace is formed by knitting every needle on bed 1 , and knitting only certain needles on bed 2 and transferring all or some of the stitches from bed 2 to bed 1 every so often as required by the design . |
| 14 | A substance , histamine , is produced by injured cells ; it causes capillaries in the area to dilate thus bringing greatly increased amounts of blood to the site of injury . |
| 15 | From another standpoint it is impossible , given the infinite unique patterns of need demonstrated by individuals , to provide wholly individualised packages of care provision . |
| 16 | Report only major changes in status . ’ |
| 17 | The method is , however , applicable only if the investigator has extremely clear goals in mind , already well worked out in advance , and a major disadvantage is the very limited nature of the data which it is capable of yielding . |
| 18 | ‘ We expect highly competitive prices with cost reduction opportunities which come through innovation by the supplier . ’ |
| 19 | Garrya elliptica This grows 3 m tall and 4 m wide and has long grey/green catkins in winter |
| 20 | The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society . |
| 21 | Over much of the country , therefore , the local researcher should expect to find only slight traces of settlement remains , not as extensive or as impressive as those usually published . |
| 22 | However , one really does not need extremely large amounts of space to grow the flowers needed for this very enjoyable hobby . |
| 23 | Many of us still incorrectly believe that a well-balanced diet should include only small amounts of bread because it is fattening . |
| 24 | Two hundred delegates gathering in Cardiff today for a Euro-Conference on ‘ Sustainability ’ will be told that new planning policies must be used to encourage environmentally sustainable forms of development . |
| 25 | After the war clouds rolled away old arguments about Home Rule were quickly resumed , but the issue of the Welsh Church was easily settled : Lloyd George offered compensation and the Welsh Church was duly disestablished in 1920 with little Unionist complaint . |
| 26 | The Commission said , however , that it would be up to member states to propose and enforce measures protecting environmentally sensitive areas from shipping , as this was a matter of national , rather than Community , jurisdiction . |
| 27 | Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees . |
| 28 | This fact is particularly significant in light of the poor outcomes sometimes reported after surgical procedures for constipation ; a thorough in depth functional evaluation , especially coupled to small bowel recordings , in order to exclude a more generalised gastrointestinal motor disorder , might yield more effective results after surgery in patients with chronic constipation . |
| 29 | 39 and 40 ) suggest more specific levels of affinity than are to be considered here . |
| 30 | At the bottom of the judicial system , magistrate 's courts handled petty crime and committed more serious offenders for trial in one of the higher tribunals . |