Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounting a benefit concert for charity which involves enough big-name artists to guarantee both a sell-out and significant publicity : this is a difficult enough task . |
| 2 | Since it is possible that more than one defence might be raised in each case , sometimes in combination with a defence of lack of intent , a system of criminal law which offers seven qualified defences to murder risks undue complication and confusion in contested cases . |
| 3 | Yet it is poverty which drives these poor worlders to hew their saplings . |
| 4 | Also in Caerleon is the Roman Legionary Museum which holds many fascinating artefacts excavated from the remains . |
| 5 | The Body Shop 's rubbery Body Buddy , £4.50 , has a knobbly side for problem areas as well as a gentle , bristly side , and can be used in the bath — lather up with some shower gel for lubrication — or after your bath , ideally in conjunction with The Body Shop 's Massage Oil for cellulite , £3.30/60ml which contains citrus essential oils to help ease water retention . |
| 6 | There is an excellent book which covers this intriguing subject called Sporting Body Sporting Mind ( J Syer and C Connolly , CUP 1984 ) which explains numerous methods of mental preparation . |
| 7 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 8 | Attractions include : Rockingham Castle built by William the Conqueror ; Althorp House , ( family home of the Princess of Wales ) with magnificent paintings and porcelain ; Castle Ashby which has extensive landscaped gardens open to the public ; Sulgrave Manor , ancestral home of George Washington ; and the delightful Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne . |
| 9 | A road , the A.836 , leaves John o' Groats and adopts a tortuous course following the fretted coast , and after bypassing Dunnet Head , the most northerly point of the mainland , reaches the pleasant market town of Thurso which has many interesting features deserving a leisurely halt . |
| 10 | This rationale may be necessary self-reassurance to a government which has such obvious difficulty feeling positive about public spending on jobs . |
| 11 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 12 | A few letters and edited sections of four interviews with the artist make up the rest of the volume which has some interesting illustrations reproducing photographs of the artist and friends . |
| 13 | The single most expensive item is the late 19th century Italian travertine marble fountain which has three graduated bowls supported by hippocampi . |
| 14 | Moving from east to west ( left to right ) , we start with The Shamrock , which has several excellent routes to interest us . |
| 15 | These include the ‘ legacy of the British ’ , who promoted an overtly punitive penal philosophy , more concerned with the repression of dissent than with ordinary crime , and who ran the prisons as cheaply as possible ; a labyrinthine criminal justice system , which causes many accused persons to spend years in gaol before their trial is completed ; widespread political interference with the police , whereby criminals with ‘ connections ’ often escape justice , leaving the gaols populated predominantly with poor rural labourers ; the designation of prisons , under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution , as primarily the responsibility of the thirty-one individual states and union territories rather than the Indian government — which has perpetuated gross differences in practices and standards ; and the generally low priority attached to ‘ non-productive ’ areas like penal reform in a country with 250 million people below the poverty line , where economic development dominates planning and expenditure . |
| 16 | In fact it is the absence of any territorial invasion by the poet into contemporary culture , which authorizes certain interim measures overseen by the state on behalf of the nation . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it is also associated with an ‘ illusion of competence ’ effect which leads those employing interviews to value the quality of their decisions out of all proportion to their probable true worth . |
| 18 | This view is supported by Sutcliffe 's own data , as well as mine , which shows Black British speakers focusing on the JC basilect when " chattin " Patois " , even though they do not always hit their target as intended . |
| 19 | REDKEN 'S Trust Permanent Body System includes a Perm Map Indicator Paper which reveals any waving lotion left on the hair after rinsing and a Perm Lock Perm Life Extender which prolongs the life of your curls . |
| 20 | Of course , there are still places where the old-style canalizing approach to river management is being pushed through ; and the conflict of values which underlies this whole issue raises a number of questions which are not easy to answer . |
| 21 | However , a significant number of countries are wedded to a principle which requires all outgoing requests to emanate directly from a court ; for such countries the superimposition of an administrative agency in the context of a judicial function is impossible . |
| 22 | Santa Ana , California-based California Software Products International Inc has announced the RPG400 debugger which is included in the new version 3 of its Baby/4XX Report Program Generator for AS/400s and personal computers : the debugger has been designed to improve applications development based on the Baby/4XX system , which enables stand-alone personal computers to emulate the AS/400 ; the debugger is free to current users — version 1.3 of the Baby/4XX system is £2,500 . |
| 23 | The Centre , which occupies three upper floors providing a total of 12,000 square feet of exhibition space , shares the building with the Musée de l'Automobile , l'Autocyclette et du Velo , a private collection of motor vehicles dating from 1890–1945 . |
| 24 | First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head . |
| 25 | The Princess , patron of the PDSA , talked to staff as she toured the centre , which provides affordable veterinary care to pet owners . |
| 26 | The mole-fraction of each RNA band in the 15 min elongation time lanes has been shown in Figure 5 in terms of a histogram which summarises all transcriptional blockages shown in Figures 2–4 up to transcript lengths of approximately 110 . |
| 27 | An internal memorandum by the chief economist of the World Bank , Lawrence Summers , which suggests encouraging polluting industries to relocate to third world countries , has been leaked to The Economist . |
| 28 | Geophysics : The group has a diversity of geophysical research interests , unique in the U.K. , which makes possible problem-orientated research incorporating a range of methods , for example , to examine the structure of the Earth 's crust . |
| 29 | Belgrade Radio said Serb forces had ‘ liberated ’ the eastern Bosnian town , which controls two important bridges spanning the Drina river border between Bosnia and Serbia . |
| 30 | Any competitor who wins three consecutive races retains the cup , and in 1986 Terry was one race away from gaining his second cup when he was beaten by a local lad whose legs had given way just twenty yards from the finish the previous year . |