Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which current Conservative cabinet minister was reputed to have said of John Stonehouse 's faked suicide , ‘ This goes to show that old politicians never die , they simply wade away ’ ? |
| 2 | All this has happened because enormous sums of public money available for drainage schemes since the War have combined with a revolution in technology which we have not yet fully come to terms with . |
| 3 | This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in the humanities have an uncomfortable sense of crisis , a feeling of promise unfulfilled . |
| 4 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 5 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 6 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 7 | This has meant that legally-held guns and those applying to hold them are already subject to very tight controls . ’ |
| 8 | This has meant that underground aquifers , which supply much of the water requirements of the south-east , have shrunk to the lowest level on record . |
| 9 | One English study showed accident rates of 5–9 year olds 15–20 times higher in residential areas than the 17–59 age group , whilst another has shown that young pedestrians account for 38 per cent of recorded casualties in residential area accidents and young cyclists a further nine per cent . |
| 10 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 11 | This seems to indicate that most drivers have heeded the message of drink driving campaigns . |
| 12 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |
| 13 | This included ensuring that adequate materials were used and that the specification was embodied in the propellers . |
| 14 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 15 | While some have remained as classic standards , plenty have been forgotten altogether . |
| 16 | Some have questioned whether small villages can be afforded , and most economic evidence in the 1970s suggested a negative answer . |
| 17 | It is appropriate to try to discover if such institutions were ever actually the way they had been previously presented by a scholarship interested ( even if it did not declare its interest ) in constructing its own version of the past to answer its own preoccupations . |
| 18 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 19 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 20 | While accepting that there may be cross-subsidy within the AOC charges scheme ( figures for 1990/91 appear to show that 32 operators of aircraft weighing over fifteen tonnes accounted for 59 per cent of CAA regulatory effort but provided 96.12 per cent of AOC income ) , GAMTA says : ‘ In that financial year the cost of running the AOC Charge Scheme was £21 million . |
| 21 | Firstly , it might argue that so much of what doctors do lacks solid scientific support that it would be ludicrous to try to insist that all doctors practise scientifically valid medicine all the time . |
| 22 | Sections 2 to 4 proceed to examine whether these limits of political authority can be extended by consent or in other ways . |
| 23 | FRED 4 seeks to ensure that financial statements report the substance of transactions and not merely their legal form . |
| 24 | An imperial tradition lasting for more than two centuries was ended on Oct. 5 when it was announced that federal Prime Minister Paul Keating and Queen Elizabeth II had agreed that Australian citizens would no longer be nominated for the receipt of UK honours . |
| 25 | But with 17 matches to go and key players returning , Strudwick believes his side can reach the big-time for the first time since the Rugby League began their bid to take the game beyond the confines of Yorkshire and Lancashire with the Fulham experiment back in the early eighties . |
| 26 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 27 | Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than mechanistic ones . |
| 28 | US State Department reports on Aug. 3 had alleged that Iraqi forces had been spotted by reconnaissance aircraft massing on the Saudi border in preparation for a possible invasion . |
| 29 | Some of those questioned said that these annoyances disturbed their pleasure , though none would really add up to forms of unhappiness . |
| 30 | Consequently , while many pupils in the samples in 1984–6 completed written and mental tests , fewer did practical and oral tests . |