Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strictly speaking , we are interested here only in one part of the market , that part which supplies local authorities with short-term ‘ money ’ through bills and deposits . |
| 2 | However , the instruction manual , though extremely comprehensive , is written in that awful Americanese which makes similar pamphlets printed in Japan almost a pleasure to read ! |
| 3 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 4 | A rather vicious English GHOST which haunts ancient sites of keeps and cases along the Scottish border . |
| 5 | As detailed examinations of mother-infant interactions show , from the beginning the baby is active , not passive ; his behaviour is organized , not ‘ absent ’ ; and even to the earliest social interactions he brings certain characteristics which will affect the behaviour of other people towards him . |
| 6 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 7 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 8 | And it is the climax of this struggle which precipitates social revolution and the transition from one social formation to another . |
| 9 | And if a commercial building which suffers multi-million pound damage also happens to be a ‘ prestige ’ target , then so much the better . |
| 10 | There is an initial high adherence of Ac-ASA to the cell matrix followed by a linear rise which represents true uptake by the cell . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 14 | But for now , pilots like the Trislander as one of the few aircraft which allows real flying in today 's increasingly automated world . |
| 15 | Also , this method can achieve the same accuracy by using a best-few search which explores more alternatives during portions of the utterances where credibility is low . ’ |
| 16 | It is because we wish to strengthen the Government 's hand against a fairly well organised industry which seeks universal general increases that we make a series of recommendations in the report , to which I shall come in a moment . |
| 17 | There is a potential civilised nature to Ireland , and it is this side which asks English help . |
| 18 | Tony Davies attests to the continuing force even in the 1980s of the " fluid and contradictory debris of discursive fragments which surrounds such limp , but none the less coercive , questions as " Well , what do you think of this then ? " 150 It seems that what continues largely to hold these fragments together are those practically-embedded assumptions into which Barbara Hardy , in her strict attention to the humdrum interactions rather than the more formal discursive superstructure , offers a degree of insight unusual for writings on English in higher education . |
| 19 | The crucial point about rules , as opposed to habits , is the critical reflective attitude which justifies hostile reactions and , ultimately , sanctions . |
| 20 | This analysis also helps to clarify another issue which taxes some commentators . |
| 21 | A French subsidiary which does some development is already up and running in Paris with 12 employees — a German operation will follow . |
| 22 | On the other hand , like any moulded surface of this type it has fat needles , rather than the brush-type filaments of a normal plastic slope . |
| 23 | In fact , underpinning this remarkable find is the coincidence of an almost simultaneous archival discovery which proves this painting 's descent , right back to the man who commissioned it from Caravaggio himself . |
| 24 | First is the issue of sex determination : how the law is to deal with changing scientific opinion which challenges old certainties , and the legality of medical procedures designed to deal with abnormal sexual conditions . |
| 25 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 26 | The term ‘ violence ’ includes conduct intended to cause physical harm and conduct which might cause harm ( such as throwing a missile towards someone ) ; and , for the two most serious offences of riot and violent disorder , ‘ violence ’ bears an extended meaning which includes violent conduct towards property . |
| 27 | Mothers love squid because it 's good value ( you can eat most of it ) and easy to prepare ( unlike , say raw fish which takes considerable skill . |
| 28 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 29 | It is this group which has greatest acquaintanceship with the facts and techniques of sex and sexuality and the least inhibition surrounding them . |
| 30 | It may be that the user has submitted another package which references this module which must be approved first ( thus causing the error to be replaced with QA OK , after this module has been approved ) . |