Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They will now consult their members to see whether they wish to accept the rise or consider taking industrial action . |
| 2 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 3 | I COULD N'T tell whether I was watching a world title fight or Come Dancing last weekend . |
| 4 | We could modify either LA or SEGLAB to reduce this problem . |
| 5 | PATCHWORK Marshall JMP-1 Get the cheque book out , dust off the credit card or prepare to attack that porcelain pig with a mallet ! |
| 6 | Anthony Tory , who misses the ride on Docklands Express , is believed to have pulled a muscle in the back of his neck or to have displaced some vertebrae . |
| 7 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 8 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 9 | They may grumble , work to rule , sabotage industrial machinery , take strike action or attempt to organize other members of their class in an effort to overthrow capitalism . |
| 10 | was intending to travel against the advice of a medical practitioner or intending to obtain medical treatment during the period of insurance |
| 11 | At home the action that has drawn most attention in the past year was his vote in favour of war in the Gulf . |
| 12 | Indeed , in a partnership that has cost British Telecom £19m along with £5m from HIE , the existing infrastructure in the region has been significantly upgraded with the installation of advanced equipment at over 60 of its telephone exchanges . |
| 13 | Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep . |
| 14 | Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features . |
| 15 | It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later . |
| 16 | What was the fault that had deserved this punishment ? |
| 17 | The results , summarized in Fig. 3.13 , reveal some evidence of latent inhibition in that these subjects acquired suppression less readily than control subjects that had received initial exposure to a stimulus other than the tone . |
| 18 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 19 | The story of the Patiño family is by no means unique , but it is arresting nonetheless for all the romance and tragedy that has surrounded this clan of immensely rich and socially ambitious art collectors . |
| 20 | This countered the tendency towards antagonism between presidential advisers and departmental secretaries that had weakened other administrations , and it also reduced the chances of cabinet members ‘ going native ’ . |
| 21 | Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise . |
| 22 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |
| 23 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 24 | This is a practice that has threatened several species . |
| 25 | In the past , carnivorous plants have been gathered by unscrupulous collectors from the wild ; a practice that has depleted natural stocks . |
| 26 | Write down examples of previous relationships that have followed similar patterns to the one that you now have with the addict in your life . |
| 27 | Commercially speaking , building superStrats had to be a safer bet for the manufacturers than attempting to break new ground . |
| 28 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 29 | Thus the structure of spoken sentences need not have derived entirely from combination of words that had replaced single gesture types . |
| 30 | And you define yourself by the words you use , in my case words that seek to present bare facts . |