Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 2 | Some people argue that everyone who claims to have seen or to have photographed this animal has been either drunk , deceived by a log or interested in promoting the Scottish tourist industry . |
| 3 | Usually after a period of considerable discomfort and attempted solutions some apparent answer is found which may be successful or unsuccessful in meeting the long-term interests of the client . |
| 4 | Koolatron is a 12-V portable insulated box which can keep its contents either warm or cool by using a portable power pack . |
| 5 | If the arbitrator dies or is unwilling or incapable of acting a new arbitrator may be appointed under the Arbitration Act 1950 , and at least while he is acting within his jurisdiction an arbitrator is immune from liability for negligence ( Sirros v Moore [ 1975 ] QB 118 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ All in a good cause , ’ he commented with more of his inbuilt charm , but firmly took her away from things Baroque or Gothic by hailing a passing taxi . |
| 7 | He should forget the tension , try to stay out of trouble and nick the odd goal or two without creating the screaming fuss we have come to expect from him . |
| 8 | After an hour or two of observing the various shapes and sizes of mouths crammed with teacake the novelty began to wear off and I felt a bilious attack coming on . |
| 9 | The function of the pre-trial review is made clear by the instructions to the district judge whereby he or she is required to ‘ … give all such directions as appear to be necessary or desirable for securing the just expeditious and economical disposal of the action or matter . ’ |
| 10 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 11 | If it can be accepted , as empiricists do , that the process of empirical verification involves a separate and distinct process of consciousness than that of generating the ideal categories in the first place , then there is a basis for distinguishing between ideology and another form of knowledge , ‘ science ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression , ) but that if the judgment of the visitor be ever so erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
| 13 | In Rex v. Bishop of Ely , Lord Kenyon C.J. refused the rule upon this ground , and says , ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression ) ; but that if the judgment of the visitor be erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
| 14 | To distance himself from his domestic woes it can be expected Gooch will drive himself and his players even harder than usual in training the next few days . |
| 15 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 16 | Although satisfactory for accommodating a large congregation in a uniformly lit space , such an arrangement does not offer the possibility of simple subdivision into a series of identical spaces suitable for use as dwellings . |
| 17 | Some American businessmen wondered if the United States was not doing more harm than good by underwriting the domestic policies of the Labour government . |
| 18 | Data records with index fields less than or equal to 45 can be found by following the left pointer ; greater than 45 and less than or equal to 86 can be found by following the middle pointer ; and records greater than 86 by following the third pointer . |
| 19 | The camp guards had allowed the baby six months ' life and then , when Elisabeth was selected for the officers ' brothel and her breasts required for purposes other than those of nourishing a Jewish infant , a non-commissioned officer , having polished his boots , drawn up the mess accounts , written an affectionate note to his wife and son and relieved his bladder , took Elisabeth Danziger 's baby from her arms and dashed out its brains against the stone wall outside his office . |
| 20 | The talk was even between all four of them — neither man wanting the women to leave for a moment and both women , though diffident to start with , more than capable of taking a full part in the ‘ manly ’ subjects of politics and warfare and the economy of the country which George and John-Augustus batted about , rather sweepingly . |
| 21 | Wherever responsibility for the mistakes lay — and it lay with Churchill and the British as much as with the Free French — the failure was a colossal humiliation for de Gaulle , because it showed an imperial administration utterly loyal to Vichy and more than capable of repelling the Free French . |
| 22 | " There are more ways than one of ending an unwanted pregnancy , you know . |
| 23 | The pair prepare their chosen site together , cleaning the leaf or other object , sometimes cleaning more than one before making the final choice . |
| 24 | Weakened Wakefield had tried in vain to postpone Saturday 's game and they duly lost their 33 match unbeaten home record to a Newcastle side who were clinical rather than spectacular in registering an 18–8 victory . |
| 25 | Weakened Wakefield had tried in vain to postpone Saturday 's game and they duly lost their 33 match unbeaten home record to a Newcastle side who were clinical rather than spectacular in registering an 18–8 victory . |
| 26 | It was encouraging to learn from your answers to last year 's questionnaire that most of liked the first edition of ‘ The Birmingham Magazine ’ . |
| 27 | The potential deficit on the poll tax collection fund er because of these people not registering is well over million pounds and that by spending the hundred thousand proposed here , would actually bring it down to seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds and that 's where the conjuring trick is er this er amendment because of course , if you work out the increase in the balances that you are proposing to take in this amendment , it works out exactly to seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds , well it does on my calculations Mr Mayor . |
| 28 | Car thieves are usually young and unused to driving the particular car that they have taken , and they are usually attracted to high performance cars . |
| 29 | Two approaches were used for ordering single-copy hybridisation probes : one was based on the simulated annealing algorithm to order all probes , and another on inferring the minimum-spanning subset of the probes using a heuristic filtering procedure . |
| 30 | Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force . |