Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Lordship begins by looking at direct discrimination under section l(l) ( a ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and concludes that there is no doubt that in general to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant or to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant is unlawful direct discrimination since childbearing and the capacity for childbearing are characteristics of the female sex . |
| 2 | So he stopped and he listened to this and went to have a look , see what was going on . |
| 3 | The Moore came over all giddy at this and had to have a sit down . |
| 4 | ‘ So I shall , Bob , ’ said Dyson irritably , ‘ if I make a success of this and begin to make a name for myself . |
| 5 | The Cleansing Department are aware of this and suggest making a phone call to the department who will arrange to uplift the pet and remove it . |
| 6 | ( If the reader doubts this and has had an accident driving a car , reflect again ! ) |
| 7 | It says They talked to their form teacher about this and have formed a tree planting group in school . |
| 8 | Highly purified porcine or human short-acting insulin is added to a small volume of normal saline and infused using a pump set at a rate dependent on blood glucose monitoring . |
| 9 | But one side branch shoots up very high and lets fall an avalanche of dark green pine needles . |
| 10 | In somewhat better weather conditions they climbed the five-mile drove-road to the lofty Tushielaw pass , and down to Tushielaw itself , with its bridge across Ettrick , making good time , although the burns and streams were running high and making fording a problem in places . |
| 11 | But if ever there is a chance , send us a sign that you are free and have made a place . |
| 12 | It 's about being young and terribly embarrassed and wanting to make an impression but not knowing what it is . |
| 13 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 14 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 15 | In a north Indian town recently , a Hindu woman was prevented from marrying a Muslim and forced to marry a Hindu by an alliance of Hindu and Muslim militants . |
| 16 | She dialled 999 and tried to reach a pile of coats in the kitchen to extinguish the flames but could not get past her husband because of the heat and flames . |
| 17 | Scarlet felt foolish and rather jealous : she knew that if she so much as failed to pay a parking ticket , the full force of the law would be upon her like a ton of bricks . |
| 18 | The National Party ( NP ) has been the party of government since 1948 and continues to command a majority in the House of Assembly . |
| 19 | It has been mostly left to outsiders to remark that knowledge of the structure of DNA has made possible and has enforced a change of thinking about the nature of living things . |
| 20 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 21 | The court was told the woman became pregnant and had to have an abortion . |
| 22 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 23 | ‘ I am two months ’ pregnant and need to get an abortion quickly as I 'm going to a big bash next week with my boy-friend . ’ |
| 24 | Unlike many conference proceedings , which present a mere snapshot of the contributions made , this material has been selected , expanded and rounded to form a whole , and then presented in a uniform format . |
| 25 | I had got totally pissed and had to do a gig that night . |
| 26 | The foreign ministers of all 10 Baltic littoral states met in Copenhagen , Denmark , on March 5-6 and agreed to establish a Council of Baltic States . |
| 27 | By the time I reached her signature I was half-packed and had called a taxi for Paddington station . |
| 28 | After scoring , the distal 8 cm of the colon were blotted dry and weighed using a Sartorius laboratory balance . |
| 29 | It is particularly vulnerable to claims that it is acting abusively in a particular market , and must avoid discriminating between its competitors or using its market dominance in a manner which can be construed as unfair or intended to eliminate a competitor or competition . |
| 30 | The overwhelming majority of Scottish cases related to one of four offences : conduct likely or intended to cause a breach of the peace , obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his or her duty , criminal damage or breach of bail conditions ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |