Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 2 | Oulton 's paintings may serve as a reminder that each looks out from different eyes with one 's own conception of what is real , thus the artist leads us to question the truth of our own vision . |
| 3 | Now in the inside of that it opens out , there 's an opening in the bone and that leads down among other things into a tube down here , now that is connected up further down to the sinuses across |
| 4 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 5 | Team organiser , Grove Projects ’ Robin Williams , explains that he would like to hear from players in the London area who would be keen and willing to turn out for regular league and cup matches . |
| 6 | If this pans out into formal relationships — which are still being worked on — then DEC would also likely offer SVR4 alongside VMS , OSF/1 and Microsoft Corp NT on its Alpha platforms . |
| 7 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 8 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 9 | She noticed that the horses drawing the ‘ olde ’ cabs were not all that well cared for , and several clinked along with loose shoes . |
| 10 | Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day . |
| 11 | Nearly all have favourite places where they regularly sleep or drink or hunt and most move around along particular trails . |
| 12 | This type of information used to be held on an IBM mainframe computer , but this closed down for financial reasons . |
| 13 | Of biotic arguments for explaining greater tropical diversity , one of the most familiar is that there are more ‘ niches ’ than in temperate latitudes , arising from more habitats or more resources , but these hark back to environmental arguments ultimately . |
| 14 | This picture of the grudging but well-intentioned patching up of managerial differences is some way away from an ideal of quality control which relies on teamwork . |
| 15 | Though this comes in for constant robust internal criticism and revision , it is more thorough than that of many professional advice and counselling organizations and is increasingly used as a model by other organizations . |
| 16 | She watched as night-grey filtered out to recognisable shapes : the beached boats , the shifting edge of the sea , the low houses slung along the road . |