Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 2 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 3 | The National Party ( NP ) has been the party of government since 1948 and continues to command a majority in the House of Assembly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first is lexicon-based and involves storing a list of the allowed words . |
| 6 | China plans to build 12 nuclear power stations by the year 2000 and has indicated a willingness to join the International Atomic Energy Agency and abide by US safeguards and inspection conditions . |
| 7 | Primary prevention of suicide attempts is extremely difficult and continues to present a challenge to health and social services alike . |
| 8 | But Mr Chance claimed that a sustainable UK coal industry would need the financial support of open-cast mining , which last year earned BC a profit of £171 million and has contributed a total of £3.7 billion over the past 50 years . |
| 9 | His lawyer claims Farrow , 47 , is worth £1.9 million and has signed a £1.5 million autobiography deal . |
| 10 | Since then , the Committee has been remarkably active and has staged a number of public vigils and occupations of buildings . |
| 11 | He had been widely criticised for his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal in 1988 and has seen a number of earlier convictions overturned as police evidence was discredited in the Appeal Court . |
| 12 | ‘ Jane 's 22 and Grant a bit older but she 's very intense and tries to force a commitment , while he 's very airy-fairy and does n't want to think about the future . |