Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long grains usually cook up to give a dry , fluffy dish , whereas the shorter grains cook wet or sticky and have a tendency to cling together . |
| 2 | It is especially important to make a will if you are gay or unmarried and have a partner you wish to provide for . |
| 3 | Wise parents are still able to give support and advice , when it is asked for , even after their children have set up their own homes or married and had a family . |
| 4 | Selected students can interrupt their medical studies for a year at the end of year 2 , 3 , 4 or 5 and take a BSc ( Medical Sciences ) honours degree . |
| 5 | Selected students can interrupt their veterinary studies for a year at the end of years 2 , 3 or 5 and take a BSc ( Vet Sc ) honours degree . |
| 6 | Naïve , that 's what he was always calling me — that or juvenile , and you ca n't get more juvenile or naïve than allowing a man like Luke Denner to seduce you and then half hoping , almost believing in the fantasy that somehow you might actually mean something to him ! ’ |
| 7 | or two and have a look at it . |
| 8 | However , it goes further than that and implies a lack of awareness of the need for conservation , of future private benefits for individual households and the village ( or larger local community ) as a whole , leading to a failure to mobilise people to give their labour for construction ( even when it will be paid for ) , for maintenance work , and for enforcement where discipline is required ( to control lopping of small seedlings , to exclude livestock from reafforested and other areas and so on ) . |
| 9 | Now Regan 's response to this , exemplified in the imbecile 's fear , would be to insist that since ordinary usage almost seems to demand that we describe that unfortunate as recognising a snake , and because this is only possible of someone who holds the necessary beliefs , then he must hold them somehow and somewhere . |
| 10 | So we can say that many that equals a quarter . |
| 11 | Accidents more commonly occur in dark stables than those that have a glimmer of light . |
| 12 | Tests show that on most high performance machines , a spread of splattered flies on the leading edges can account for up to a quarter of the glider 's performance , reducing a glide ratio of 40:1 to less than 35:1 and making a mockery of glide calculations . |
| 13 | But I think I would pay the extra and that and have a choice next time . |
| 14 | The Dane , though shy and retiring and lacking a sense of humour , has knitted together a unified policy for the agency , which spends every year some £400 million of European taxpayers ' money . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Terminal courses increased steadily throughout the following decade , doubling in total numbers between 1925 and 1935 and reaching a total of fifty in the latter year . |
| 16 | On the other hand , we certainly are not looking for the bland , but rather for the anodyne which is also intriguing and interesting and has a sense of positive enthusiasm . ’ |
| 17 | There would be little point in having these different norms ( which are arbitrary in linguistic terms ) if they did not carry social meaning , distinguishing between one community and another and carrying a sense of community identity for speakers . |
| 18 | Inside it was cool and restful , with honey-coloured stone tiles covering a huge entrance hall , where she 'd promptly dropped her suitcase and flight-bag and made a dive for the kitchen and the fridge to quench her raging thirst . |
| 19 | Relating manpower requirements to production forecasts can be costly and inconvenient and using a microcomputer will assist personnel departments in the decision process . |
| 20 | He was emerging in stately fashion from Wavebreaker 's companionway and , though I could see he was tall and lanky and had a ponytail of hair , I could make out no details of his face . |
| 21 | Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet . |
| 22 | An alternative is to have dentist and patient and make a joke of it , with the dental instruments being a hammer and a pair of pliers and the patient made up to have a large abscess . |
| 23 | Melt the chocolate over a pan of hot water until it is shiny and smooth and reaches a temperature of 38–43C/100–110F . |
| 24 | If you want to be successful in public relations you must be literate , articulate and numerate and have a flair with words . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're loyal and unselfish and have a capacity for loving … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Hewden Stuart increased its profits steadily through the Stop-Go policies of the 1960s and 1970s but experienced a hiccough in 1979-80 when there was a fundamental reconstruction of British industry , ’ he explained . |
| 27 | They were informal and informative and included a women firefighter giving a talk on her personal experience . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Those that bring the inventor wealth and fame , and those that make a fortune for someone else , ’ he says . |
| 29 | Spider venoms fall into two main categories : those which affect the nervous system ( neurotoxins ) and those that produce a necrosis , or death of the body tissues . |
| 30 | She was wearing a plaid dressing-gown that her Dad had left behind : it smelled like an old dog and was as scratchy and heavy as wearing a carpet . |