Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural history of cervical cancer among older women is uncertain , but ‘ that little is known about the natural history of cancer of the cervix does not seem to have been an obstacle to the introduction of screening programmes for younger women . ’ |
| 2 | They usually moan when the engine is low on oil or if the oil relief valve plunger spring has gone weak This is mounted on the top of the oil cooler between the union and the pipe Removing the spring and replacing with a new one or sometimes stretching the spring cures the groaning noise Whilst the groan sounds awful it is not actually detrimental to the operation of the vehicle |
| 3 | This much is stated by the Roman chronicler Tacitus , and thus constitutes the one sure assertion about Jesus to issue from a non-biblical , yet contemporary , source . |
| 4 | This much is established in the play , but , unable to think of a suitable ending , Perry anticipates the events to come by aborting the drama prematurely with a radio cut written into the script . |
| 5 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 6 | After rectification the raw d.c. is smoothed by the electrolytic capacitors C3 and C4 . |
| 7 | Tony Thomas , the BRM Trustee told SRN that this 4-6-0 is to remain at the museum for the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | How easy this is depends on the manufacturer of your machine . |
| 9 | First of all can I check that I am right in saying that the difference between the H B F's figures of fifty three thousand and the County Council 's figure of forty six thousand is explained by the vacancies , concealed households , death rates etcetera . |
| 10 | An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 . |
| 11 | It is futile to inquire into the causation of verbal behaviour until much more is known about the specific character of this behaviour ; and there is little point in speculating about processes of acquisition without much better understanding of what is acquired . |
| 12 | Because so much more work has been done and so much more is known about the business way of accounting , having alternative methods leads to confusion . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a sad reflection on the financing of drug research that so much more is spent on the development of new and ‘ me too ’ drug therapies , ’ it adds . |
| 14 | In the course of this exploration , we have seen how much more is needed in the creation and understanding of coherent discourse than knowledge of the language system alone : its sounds and letters , its words and its sentence grammar . |
| 15 | Although the impact of immigration on British society has been much debated , much less is known about the more geographically distant consequences of emigration . |
| 16 | Seventy , seventy five , eighty five ninety ninety is offered at the back and selling for ninety if you 're all finished at ninety pounds . |
| 17 | But if anyone else believes that all that 's consumed in the Sedgefield council chairman 's room is tea and biscuits they must be stoned out of their tiny little brains . |
| 18 | All that 's changed over the years are the hands that make them . |
| 19 | All that 's left of the Glynn acres . ’ |
| 20 | This is all that 's left of the bedroom in which four month old twins Bethany and charlotte were sleeping . |
| 21 | There was a Benedictine abbey here in the middle ages — the arches are assumed by many visitors and local people to be all that 's left of the abbey . |
| 22 | Beneath the skyline of modern Berlin , half hidden in a grassy wasteland , all that 's left of the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide . |
| 23 | I challenge Dr McNab to justify his so-called remedies which fly in the face of all that 's known about the pathology of this disease . " |
| 24 | When a bar code is read , all that is fed into the computer system is the same number . |
| 25 | Process comprises all that is done to the patient with these resources , both clinically ( diagnostic and therapeutic procedures ) and nonclinically ( nursing care , " hotel " services , etc ) . |
| 26 | These are all that is needed for the sacrament of Chiropody . |
| 27 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 28 | If all that is needed from the computer system is a means of generating high quality text output then settle for a word processing package that can talk to a page printer . |
| 29 | All that is verging on the silly : as one who can remember Andy Pandy and the ravishing girl who read ‘ Picture Book ’ , the fact that daytime television arrived in the last six or seven years seems rather insignificant . |
| 30 | Just as its perspective gathers all that is extended to render it to the individual eye , so its means of representation render all that is depicted into the hands of the individual owner-spectator . |