Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be rash to conclude that all that represents a rejection of radicalism ; better , perhaps , to say that it is the sense of radicalism itself that changed . |
| 2 | That represents a growth of expenditure in those sectors of roughly 80 per cent . |
| 3 | As well as being the sort of motion that brings local government into disrepute , I also believe that this is the sort of motion that , that displays a lack of tolerance that should concern us all . |
| 4 | Er if we attended if if we were due to attend a meeting for example in in in Derby , er er twenty mile away ? |
| 5 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 6 | In discussions with the child it is often possible to plan a course of work to meet the individual 's needs so that the learning process is negotiated rather than dictated . |
| 7 | If an individual works longer hours than he or she would wish to do in the absence of taxation , that involves a loss of welfare . |
| 8 | The years were long , the company was colourful , and if the air was raw , well , did n't that lend a zest of danger to the enterprise ? |
| 9 | Professor Williams , however , not only believes that rape should have a limited ambit because of the severity of the penalty , but that procuring a woman by threat should also be subject to limitations even though its maximum penalty is merely two years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | That produced a form of waste that was hot , highly toxic , radioactive ; that will remain dangerous for hundreds of years and that no-one has yet thought of a way of disposing of ? |
| 11 | A suitable yardstick of good practice has been provided by the OECD , which in its contribution to Road Safety Year in the European Community in 1986 produced a synthesis of road safety research , with aims that included ‘ identifying those safety measures that should be reconsidered in national and international road safety policy formulation . ’ |
| 12 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 13 | This wood- chip paper does It 's fairly thick is n't it as a paper , will that make a lot of difference to your actually measurement that you make . |
| 14 | His nine-page catalogue from 1838 contains a wealth of information for the funerary historian , listing 111 coffins of thirty differing types , twenty sizes of shroud ( each available in four different qualities of material ) , fifteen types of ruffling , winding-sheets , mattresses , coffin furniture and palls . |
| 15 | It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate . |
| 16 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 17 | ‘ I need n't tell you that that created a howl of protest from the Russians . |
| 18 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 19 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 20 | It is no longer possible to found a reputation for scholarship on being good at spotting allusions . |
| 21 | The kind of planning which the FBI had in mind — ‘ indicative planning ’ involving the gathering and exchange of information on the development of the economy and the improvement of co-ordination , rather than the formulation and compulsory implementation of a central plan — had already been attempted under the Tories with the formation of the National Economic Development Council ( NEDC ) in 1962 but had effectively remained subordinated to conventional stop-go demand management practice : Labour promised a form of planning which would be ‘ purposeful ’ and ‘ effective ’ , which would ‘ have teeth in it somewhere ’ ( Budd , 1978 , Chapter 6 ) . |
| 22 | Er I particularly like the land that it 's on there , that adds a bit of interest to it , it 's another view , another sort of point to attract your eye . |
| 23 | Each has a sense of affinity with the other . |
| 24 | Each commission is chaired by the Speaker of the House of Commons ( a nonparty figure ) and each has a judge as deputy chairman . |
| 25 | Something that is totally helpless yet that has a world of power . |
| 26 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 27 | A preferred bidder will emerge from this stage and it is normal to grant a period of exclusivity during which due diligence procedures can be carried out . |
| 28 | It is entertaining to see a group of loushe Parisian types forming a street band or filling in for cabaret . |
| 29 | Made public this became a display of petulance and obstinacy , from which Miller emerged the loser . |
| 30 | Together with inevitable involvement with patients and their families over long periods , this encourages a change of emphasis from diagnosis/treatment/cure to assessment/assistance/care . |