Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most vets are able to carry out humane destruction either at the surgery or at your home . |
| 2 | The party ones in Germany are reluctant to consider so awkward a matter : almost anything you say is liable to embarrass the particular group of politicians you have to worry about . |
| 3 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 4 | The recruit drafts , the militia , the interruption to trade increase people 's needs and poverty " ; " Russians are ready to surmount still more hardships , [ but ] if the government attained peace on honourable terms , maintaining its resolve and dignity , that would bring general joy to the empire " . |
| 5 | Most employers are reluctant to pay too much attention to personal circumstances , such as marital status or domestic problems when arriving at redundancy decisions . |
| 6 | ‘ Clubs are free to enter as many runners as they wish , ’ said organiser Paul Whitten . |
| 7 | Digital signatures are possible using presently available technology , in particular the RSA cipher , and in spite of the technical complexity will provide sufficient information to permit proof that the document is indeed authentic . |
| 8 | Cyclists are able to use nearly all the public roads in Lothian Region ; only the M8 and M9 motorways and the West Approach Road are prohibited . |
| 9 | Such groups are likely to evolve more complex co-operative behaviour than will arise in a selfish herd . |
| 10 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 11 | Medium-sized funds may have a small proportion invested in managed funds , with the majority of assets in its direct control , large pension funds are likely to have totally direct control , whilst smaller funds may simply invest in a range of managed policies . |
| 12 | In fact , experience would suggest that , when education is deinstitutionalised those with an interest in traditional subjects are likely to come forward first since they have already defined their interest but have been deterred by the formal procedure . |
| 13 | Even so , insurers are likely to become more conservative . |
| 14 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 15 | Both BNP and Liberal Democrat candidates are entitled to have almost 39,000 election leaflets delivered to homes in Darlington free of charge . |
| 16 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 17 | Also throughout this period some members of the House of Commons , though their numbers steadily decreased , owed their election to the influence which the Treasury and Admiralty were able to exert over certain constituencies . |
| 18 | ‘ Martin Edwards then called and suggested that his club were prepared to go very high for Hirst and that other players could be involved if we were interested . |
| 19 | The existing provisions for public enquiries prior to construction offers some opportunity for the public to respond , but this feedback is likely to have only minimal impact on the chosen design , unless new procedures are introduced . |
| 20 | Currently such research is obliged to have only one aim — unhooking existing addicts . |
| 21 | The energy potential of geothermal power is enormous but research is vital to provide more economical methods of production . |
| 22 | Production from the newly-named Armada complex is due to start in late 1996 with peak output of about 300m cubic feet a day of gas condensate — a mixture of gas and light oil — from the Maggie and Howard field , and two other discoveries , Drake and Hawkins . |
| 23 | Ozone depletion is likely to become more rapid over the next few years , according to researchers from the University of Arizona 's lunar and planetary laboratory , because of links between ozone concentrations and the sun 's activity . |
| 24 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 25 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 26 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 27 | The President was able to attend only one of these , which was actually better than three other committee members who attended no meetings . |
| 28 | Because the dollar had a privileged status as a reserve currency , theoretically interchangeable with gold , the United States was free to run up huge balance of payments deficits , print money to cover these deficits , and then export their inflation through foreign investment , in the process buying up foreign companies . |
| 29 | The VEC relented but , with such short notice , the DUC was able to obtain only one speaker , Dr Robert Blackith , a zoologist from Trinity College , Dublin who was at that stage a veteran anti-nuclear speaker and campaigner . |
| 30 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |