Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I know some men find me attractive ! ’ she snapped . |
| 3 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 4 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 5 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 6 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 7 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
| 8 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 10 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 11 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 12 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 13 | I look forward to tackling the Party membership system , I wanted to make some of the sound admin system and modern communication methods which allow this Union to send each new member a new membership card , were introduced to Walworth Road . |
| 14 | But the considerations which persuaded this House to hold that there was a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown in a law enforcement action are equally applicable to cases in which some other public authority is charged with the enforcement of the law : see e.g. Lord Reid , at p. 341g , Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest , at p. 352c , and Lord Cross of Chelsea , at p. 371b–g . |
| 15 | There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content . |
| 16 | The Company 's objectives are to : Manage effectively its existing reserves portfolio ; find and develop efficiently additional reserves which offer significant potential to add value for shareholders ; build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices ; and provide a strong financial base to support its operations . |
| 17 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 18 | The great majority of farmers continue to use minimal quantities of fertiliser although fertility is being depleted ; few governments are tackling the question of the use of their under-populated areas on a systematic basis ; the organizations which serve small farmers have cut back their operations in response to budgetary pressures and in response to the pressure for privatization ; the frequently competent staff of national agricultural research bodies are everywhere starved of funds for transport and field labour . |
| 19 | The employment prospects of those who are voluntary casuals and who seek only occasional work is usually secured by the networks of reciprocity linking them to the organizations which have such work to offer . |
| 20 | The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage . |
| 21 | I drive to the Hope in my ugly , crusty car which makes horrible squeaking sounds in the rain . |
| 22 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 23 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 24 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 25 | In its pure form , models are logically derived and then tested on historical data but I also include here most forms of quantitative research which use such data to test predefined hypotheses . |
| 26 | We thus use the term binary for computers which manipulate numeric values expressed directly in a binary format , and decimal for those where binary patterns are interpreted as decimal digits . |
| 27 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 28 | Similar trends are evident in the economies of Japan , Canada and the United States which indicate that labour has shifted out of the primary sector into the service sector prior to or in parallel with the expansion of the manufacturing sector ( Singelmann , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 30 | ‘ Every branch of literature , reading , orthography , recitation , grammar and composition together with British history forms the prominent part of the system ; while the entire curriculum of study which occupies six years embraces the Latin , Greek , French , Russian and German languages , history , geography , physiology , chemistry , natural philosophy , zoology , botany , algebra , geometry , drawing and painting , fencing , gymnastics and military drill . |