Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a midwife interested in developing a perineal audit system , enabling midwives to follow their suturing up to a year postnatally . |
| 2 | Reaffirming the 1990 decision , which found Koons guilty of pirating the original photograph , the appeals court criticised Koons and Sonnabend for assuming that their position in the art business and the high price of the works would shield them from any legal action . |
| 3 | A serious limitation of the Wada technique is that the risks inherent in puncturing the carotid artery preclude its use without obvious medical justification and testing is therefore restricted to those patients who are candidates for brain surgery . |
| 4 | The selling of this new product was accommodated within the existing structures of an industry used to selling the pale imitations of American pop . |
| 5 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 6 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 7 | Correspondingly , Alcoholics Anonymous emphasizes that the choice of understanding and action involved in working the suggested twelve step programme of recovery will have definite beneficial emotional consequences as well as the obvious physiological improvements resulting from abstinence . |
| 8 | There is a financial outlay involved in running a traditional prize draw . |
| 9 | The steps involved in generating a synthetic sequence are : |
| 10 | Despite this bitter tragedy the town again rallied itself to the Yorkist cause when in 1470 they assisted King Edward IV in dispelling a Lancastrian uprising at the battle of Loosecoat Field . |
| 11 | For relatively small projects this is a powerful method : for large complicated projects the effort and confusion involved in updating the resulting diagram can create major problems . |
| 12 | For relatively small projects this is a powerful method : for large complicated projects the effort and confusion involved in updating the resulting diagram can create major problems . |
| 13 | A question which is often asked is , ‘ Are there any risks involved in using the quicker procedure of submitting a Building Notice rather than depositing full plans ? ’ |
| 14 | The pads can be inserted into an undergravel set up as a gravel tidy without interrupting the free flow of water . |
| 15 | The key figure responsible for resurrecting the Durkheimian idea of the functions of crime was Erikson ( 1966 ) , but it was taken up and used by other writers of the period ( for example , Box , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Of the numerous formulations available for expressing a given message , a speaker or writer will normally opt for one that makes the flow of information clearer in a given context . |
| 17 | A BYTE is the total of eight BITS , making a memory cell capable of holding the binary numbers 0 to 255 . |
| 18 | The programmes of those early years explored the whole range of possibilities offered by civil nuclear power and paved the way for the growth of a domestic industry capable of mastering the entire fuel cycle from the mine through enrichment to reprocessing . |
| 19 | This technique might be used when there is no data available for estimating the total market size for a product . |
| 20 | Rangers are winning matches because , from front to back , they are a side capable of beating the strong , not because they are regularly matched against the weak . |
| 21 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 22 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 23 | We will discuss problems such as these in chapter 8 by using an actual schedule which incorporates examples of mistakes , but before doing this we must also consider the problems which arise from lack of understanding of the question . |
| 24 | It hangs too much on the concept of class and fails to explore the changes and complexities that bear on this ; it tends to be gross in its handling of the power of business ; and it is unsure in its handling of the power of organised labour , seeing it both as lacking in any real power , but as somehow having the potential to become a ferocious force capable of transforming the capitalist system totally . |
| 25 | At the heart of the LNU , [ writes its historian , was ] … a faith in British public opinion as a force capable of moulding a new world order . |
| 26 | The resistance to Heath on the part of the union movement clearly had mass support , but equally clearly this resistance movement was not able to constitute itself , as it were , into a hegemonic political force capable of securing a workable parliamentary majority through the Labour Party and imposing a radical alternative course of social development ( it was much less able , of course , to constitute itself as the nucleus of an alternative state power in an extra-parliamentary manner ) . |
| 27 | Under her flamboyant leadership the moribund party was transformed into a force capable of offering a serious electoral challenge to the ruling LDP . |
| 28 | While each of the activities can be supplied on a stand-alone basis , many clients in the pharmaceutical industry prefer to employ one contractor capable of adopting an holistic approach . |
| 29 | ACONTRACT worth up to £20 million for running a new social security computer centre was yesterday awarded to a non-union , American-based company without any other bids being invited . |
| 30 | It included £1 million for guarding the Old Bailey jury after the first jury was nobbled and the case had to be restarted . |