Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 2 | There is no English equivalent for these terms although some specific forms have acquired local names . |
| 3 | Where restrictive covenants and rights of way appear to have lapsed and extensive investigations fail to locate any individual able to enforce or enjoy the benefit from such rights , it is possible to take out indemnity insurance against the remote possibility that anyone emerges with the legal right to enforce the covenant or right of way . |
| 4 | Age-old enemies have accepted that compromise is the only peaceful way forward . |
| 5 | The same forces operate at the national level ; in Italy , for example , agricultural policies have favoured large scale agriculture and further decreased the viability of non-intensive , small-scale producers who predominate in the south . |
| 6 | Lower taxes have encouraged more people to work harder — not to spend their time working out how to avoid penal taxes . |
| 7 | Working groups hope to reduce all road casualties by a third in the region by 2000 . |
| 8 | Other working groups have produced similar documents which reflect the nature of their concerns in the field of language . |
| 9 | A number of studies with normal subjects have shown that ear ( McFarland , McFarland , Bain and Ashton , 1978 ; Kelly and Orton , 1979 — but see Lambert and Beaumont , 1982 ) or visual hemifield asymmetry is negligible or reduced for concrete highly imageable words as compared with abstract , non-imageable , words ( Ellis and Shepherd , 1974 ; Hines , 1976 , 1977 ; Hatta , 1977 ; Day , 1977 , 1979 ; Marcel and Patterson , 1978 ; . |
| 10 | Furthermore , quite irrationally , some retired husbands begin to harbour dire suspicions about their wives ' working colleagues , imagining romantic entanglements that had never crossed their minds before . |
| 11 | Private schools tend to stress scholastic skills and concentrate on developing the capacity to pass examinations and on building self-confidence . |
| 12 | In contrast European nations have allowed contracting companies to keep their R&D findings secret from other companies ; with this kind of practice occurring across a dozen nations , European defence R&D is often wasted as well as fragmented . |
| 13 | Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way . |
| 14 | At present 342 schools have taken this course , but the Department of Education has reported a sevenfold increase in parental ballots since the equivalent period last year . |
| 15 | Special attention will be paid to the legal and institutional constraints on popular organization and strategic choice , and to the ways in which social and economic demands come to require different forms of popular political representation . |
| 16 | This would seem to demonstrate not only that studies in different areas or at different times have produced different results , but that a follow through of the cases prosecuted might have found , for example , that Blacks had a different ( possibly higher ) rate of ‘ not guilty ’ pleas , with acquittal rates which might have justified them in not accepting a caution . |
| 17 | Unscrupulous employers have found new ways of sidestepping European social directives which depend on having union representatives in the workplace . |
| 18 | ‘ While some institutions have made public share investments in hotel companies , the property departments remain shy of hotels , ’ she said . |
| 19 | It is also indubitable , and a fact of which philosophers and psychologists of different inclinations have made different things , that to think of any episode of experience is to think of two elements , two elements within the experience . |
| 20 | David Mason , a PPL and former editor of Flight International , set out to discover exactly what it takes to be a fighter pilot in the RAF , and the various routes would-be aces take to achieve that aim . |
| 21 | Some experts recommend introducing these fish into the aquarium in advance of other fish to reduce the fatal consequences |
| 22 | Some experts have linked lower sperm counts with toxic polychlorinatedbiphenyls ( PCBs ) . |
| 23 | In estimating demand , Scottish authorities have used inadequate techniques ; in particular , they have omitted economic factors . |
| 24 | Some cleansers help loosen simple blackheads , but are unsuitable for whiteheads , inflamed pimples or cysts . |
| 25 | Some groups seem to have more power than others . |
| 26 | Some projects have reported drastic falls in demand for beds ( News , 22 April ) . |
| 27 | Social researchers wish to establish clear findings from their work but it is natural for them to want to stretch or overplay the evidence . |
| 28 | Working from samples taken from the ice cap , French researchers have calculated that snowfall in Greenland in 1967 contained seven times more lead than in 1989 . |
| 29 | Some cities have found other uses for old Christmas trees . |
| 30 | On the one hand , national and supra-national states attempt to regulate social relations and the relations between individuals ( and such regulation leads to tensions and conflicts as classes and individuals try to reassert their personal and collective identities through local state institutions ) . |