Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential for the efficiency of a modern financial system to analyse all the securities traded in it , since only then is it possible to determine whether securities are fairly priced or whether they are underpriced or overpriced and hence give rise to profitable trading possibilities . |
| 2 | Baden has taken care of its past , rescuing old houses from decay , restoring where necessary and always taking care that new colours blend . |
| 3 | Just as the catechism sets out the substance of the faith for the lay people , so Primers , specifically designed prayer books to enable lay people to share in the liturgical offices of the Church , incorporated it into a series of devotions that daily and poignantly remind man of the cycle of salvation . |
| 4 | Deep down , however , and reading his own comments about always having to fight for employment and never being superbly successful , one ca n't help feeling he actually yearned for the stability that steady and better paid work would bring . |
| 5 | The nurse may help promote sleep by reducing anxieties if possible and generally providing comfort — rearranging pillows or adjusting the backrest . |
| 6 | All that one can profitably do is concentrate on weeding out the propositions with faulty grammar and those that contextually give rise to paradoxes . |
| 7 | In the 1910s and 1920s , some newspaper proprietors seemed willing to continue to subsidize their newspapers on political grounds , but the mounting losses incurred in this process — Pearson spent £¾m keeping the Westminster Gazette going , the TUC had spent £½m on the Daily Herald between 1921 and 1928 but only saw profit once in the early years — increased the reluctance of the politically committed to get involved . |
| 8 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure it 's a bad thing for a specialist to have to be able to explain his problems in terms which erm and intelligent and reasonably informed layman can understand , but erm I think perhaps in Britain we go too far erm in not integrating the two and putting them together and erm this is somewhere where the French in many cases have got the balance a bit better . |
| 10 | The catfish that is sometimes suggested is carnivorous and pugnacious and generally creates havoc . |
| 11 | Other nannies , such as Sally Percival , now married and living in Northampton , were kind and sympathetic and still receive Christmas cards from the children today . |
| 12 | FABULOUS 208 : Started life as Fabulous and then became house mag of Radio Luxembourg . |
| 13 | To compensate , choose as many magic items as possible that either boost leadership or negate fear . |
| 14 | Once a vendor has consulted he may find himself under moral pressure from his employees to complete as soon as possible and hopefully re-establish certainty for them over their future . |
| 15 | The COB Rules generally regulate not investment business as such but only regulated business ( see page 22 above ) . |
| 16 | The new NME was typified by James Brown , a youthful and obstreperous Yorkshire dynamo whose tenure as live and then features ed , was both fiery and fierily productive . |
| 17 | The latter alternative is preferable since it is more likely to be seen as constructive and thus win support ( see Building on page 25 ) . |