Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 2 | ( iii ) has had an order made against him which is not a bankruptcy order but which has the same or a similar effect under the law in force in any territory outside England and Wales ; |
| 3 | It has the old and the new , and it has industry and agriculture . |
| 4 | These Lasius fuliginosus are walking along two experimental trails : the bottom trail has constant concentration ; the concentration of the top trail starts the same as the bottom one but gradually decreases . |
| 5 | It looks the same as a racist stare , but it means something different . |
| 6 | The idea is that a service representative talking to a customer on the phone will be able to view a document on the screen that looks the same as the printed document the customer has . |
| 7 | If we are going to use standard units then we need to structure the demand situation in such a way that the required output needs no more than the standard units . |
| 8 | He argued that ‘ equality of opportunity ’ has a weak and a strong sense . |
| 9 | The AVHRR sensor carried by the NOAA satellites has a visible and a short-wave infrared band , and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington , DC produces global vegetation maps on a routine basis using the ratio transform outlined above . |
| 10 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 11 | ‘ Three neighbouring resorts of fine , golden beaches , resorts where life assumes a relaxed and an unhurried pace . ’ |
| 12 | The differential aspect means that an operational amplifier possesses a noninverting and an inverting input terminal , the sign of any signal applied between these terminals and the common rail being respectively preserved and reversed at the output . |
| 13 | We know of one prolific kite-maker , whose kites are marketed everywhere , who uses no more than a sharp knife of the ‘ snap-off ’ type to cut dozens of panels in a laminated pack around a metal template . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know . |
| 15 | since 1987 , given that even double-glazing salesmen appear to have gone quiet in this recession and given that energy-efficiency investment not only helps the environment but protects the vulnerable and the old and creates hundreds of thousands of jobs , will the Government consider extending the exemption from stamp duty for all energy-efficient homes beyond August and perhaps indefinitely ? |
| 16 | Therefore , a person charged under s.9(1) ( b ) may be convicted under s.9(1) ( a ) because the former includes the latter when the accused is charged with entering with intent to steal or inflict grievous bodily harm : see Whiting ( 1987 ) 85 Cr App R 78 . |
| 17 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 18 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 19 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |
| 20 | The latter assertion represents no more than a pious belief , since Sukenick 's text repeatedly fragments itself into short phrasal units , disparate narrative strands , and oddly shifting ‘ characters ’ . |
| 21 | He thus comes close to Formalist/structuralist theory in denying the referential function of poetry , but differs significantly from it in his identification of the emotive with the poetic use of language ; for Jakobson , it will be remembered , the emotive or what Jakobson calls the conative and the poetic are quite distinct . |
| 22 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 23 | " To make a common practical Sailor requires no more than a natural Inclination to the Sea , and a sturdy healthy Constitution . |
| 24 | Even those who have long since abandoned hope of winning Downing Street 's favour have increasingly won their places after passing through a selection process which prevents the eccentric and the too-individualistic getting a look-in . |
| 25 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 27 | As Conrad , through the narrator Marlow , follows the wanderings which Jim undertakes to escape the imputation of cowardice , he contrasts the romantic and the realistic view of the case as he assembles opinions of Jim , elicited or overheard by Marlow . |
| 28 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 29 | With its splashes of red standing out from the swirling whiteness of the snowstorm , this tableau combines the decorative and the dramatic in a manner reminiscent of the finest Japanese prints . |
| 30 | Völker ideally combines the lyrical and the heroic in his singing , phrases with authority , albeit with a certain freedom where note values are concerned , and puts other contenders in the shade , even though by 1942 the voice was n't quite as pliant or firm as it had been six or seven years earlier . |