Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Switzerland 's finest private watchmakers has crafted this timepiece exclusively for the Danbury Mint . |
| 2 | The recent fashion for dubiously coherent theoretical approaches has made little impact , beyond occasional outbursts of rant and cant which no one takes seriously . |
| 3 | The idea of travelling between areas to take advantage of shorter waiting times appears to have some public support as Leathard ( 1990 ) quotes a survey which suggests that 40 per cent of people would go anywhere in the country to avoid waiting for treatment . |
| 4 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 5 | Whether the commitment from present enrolled nurses exists to make such approaches feasible , and whether there is sufficient financial help available to put them into practice , remains to be seen . |
| 6 | The discovery of many new facts and new types of agnathans with hitherto unknown anatomical features has questioned some of our traditional ideas . |