Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [that] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |
| 2 | To use a common denigrating quote of a ‘ PR job ’ , this implies that somehow the truth is being hidden behind a glossy or false facade . |
| 3 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 4 | This suggests that either the K + channel bearing cells were overgrown by other cell types when true confluency was achieved , or confluency was associated with full polarisation of the cells and mvoement of K + channels to the basolateral membrane , which was inaccessible to the patch pipette . |
| 5 | It is sad to report that neither the Transport Department nor the Environment Department ( they made a joint decision in favour of the trench on the grounds of cost ) made any attempt to value Twyford Down , its inhabitants and the enjoyment gained now and in the future from them . |
| 6 | I mean , we all knew that only the Lorrimores ’ car was behind the dome car . |
| 7 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 8 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 9 | The survey results tabulated in section 9 of Appendix 1 suggest that even the minority who do try and balance the figures in this way ( that is , the one in five who are at least theoretical ‘ rational choosers ’ ) may sometimes be swayed by an entirely random factor — the order in which they become aware of the various different sets of cost figures . |
| 10 | In the family proceedings court s69(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 stipulates that only the following may be present : ( i ) officers of the court ; ( ii ) the parties , their solicitors and counsel , witnesses and others directly concerned in the case ; ( iii ) representatives of the press ; ( iv ) any person given permission by the court , eg trainee social workers , researchers etc . |
| 11 | That means that both the nature and the significance of the test must be explained to you beforehand , in a way which you can understand . |
| 12 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 13 | The proportion has now soared to two-thirds — DHSS figures for 1982 show that only a minority , 713,700 , exist on the £25 a week unemployment benefit alone — 2,612,000 " top up " with supplementary benefit , and another 1,428,500 depend on supplementary benefit alone . |
| 14 | Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant . |
| 15 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 16 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
| 17 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 18 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |