Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We see it in brilliant colours which flow through the whole spectrum , and extend to dayglo ; but it starts life in a natural tone , initially floppy until the grippers or stenters pierce the outer edges to stretch it flat as it is heat treated , and dyed . |
| 2 | If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach . |
| 3 | If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs . |
| 4 | By contrast , waking is more likely to occur if the body temperature rising or has reached a high level . |
| 5 | Given the generous relief against forfeiture provisions contained in s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 a tenant should have little to fear from a forfeiture clause unless it is seriously in financial difficulties or has committed a serious breach of covenant which can not be rectified . |
| 6 | If a woman , she knows her language better than most ladies do , or has had a classical education . |
| 7 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 8 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ This is all beautifully rosy but he has not mentioned his plans to tax companies by half a per cent on the payroll for a training tax or plans to enforce a minimum wage on small and medium sized companies which will be particularly badly hit . ’ |
| 10 | And if you want to run a business that involves shipping an unwieldy machine across Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , servicing orders from London , New York and Japan , and travelling to Glasgow and London to seek commissions from the smartest fashion houses , then Back Road in Stromness is probably as good a place as any to do it from . |
| 11 | ‘ Short-term that may be fine , but shipping is a long term business that needs to ride the historic cycles . |
| 12 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 13 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 14 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 15 | However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer . |
| 16 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 17 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 18 | Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD , it has been the synagogue that has kept the Jewish faith alive throughout the centuries even to the present day . |
| 19 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |
| 20 | It now , persists , it may be said , because of a non-rational or irrational longing on the part of philosophers to have order in the universe , a longing that has replaced the lost comfort of a belief in an all-governing God . |
| 21 | He hopes , as all prime ministers do , that the shake-up will put an end to the back-biting and snarling that has reached a nasty pitch since the Newbury by-election and local-council humiliations three weeks ago . |
| 22 | Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress , an anachronism that has survived the passing years . |
| 23 | What must ultimately be recognised is a more profound change that has overcome the cultural sphere , namely the broad and far-reaching symptoms of the ‘ postmodern ’ in culture . |
| 24 | The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example . |
| 25 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 26 | It is all this research into stable fluorescent powders that has made the new compact fluorescents possible . |
| 27 | But it is not just population displacement that has made the High Dam at Aswan such a controversial issue . |
| 28 | But , it is that very fascination — bordering on fanaticism — with the game that has turned the Afrikaner sport into a political football , as the All Black and Wallaby tourists found out . |
| 29 | Clinton has also promised a renewed American effort to end the crisis that has turned the former Yugoslavia into a horrific centre of conflict and atrocities . |
| 30 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |