Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HRM does not invalidate the procedures and skills of personnel management but , rather , places them in a different conceptual framework . |
| 2 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 3 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 4 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 5 | At present the museum 's director Alessandra Mottola Molfino envisages it as a huge visual archive rather than a collection of objects . |
| 6 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 7 | An archway covered with more Rosa ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ leads you to a small back garden with another island bed as its main feature , There is yet more pink phlox and annual lavatera , along with the variegated phlox ‘ Norah Leigh ’ , hostas , the dwarf gentian-blue Delphinium tatsienense and Geranium ‘ Winscombe ’ , which is one of the pink varieties that seems to flower all summer long . |
| 8 | The cobbled lane plunges you into a genial old quarter packed with restaurants . |
| 9 | An early picture shows her in a wide-brimmed black hat and white dress owned by Sarah . |
| 10 | Pei 's generosity with space , the fact that one never feels oppressed by ceilings ( as I always do at Lasdun 's National Theatre ) , reveals him as a distinctive architectural sculptor . |
| 11 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 12 | The bank has no plans to put the EDI application back onto the X400 network , because it uses a program developed by Brussels-based systems integrator Acse SA , which collects the information from the X25 mailbox , stores it on magnetic disk , checks it for the Binary Condensed Algorithm code number , and checks it against internal and external data . |
| 13 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 14 | The desire for a hefty structure on a night like this , leads us to an enormous flashy hotel . |
| 15 | This , and the quoted safe level for serum bismuth ( 10–50 µg/l ) reassures us of the low toxic potential for this enema . |
| 16 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 17 | This exception applies where the seller continues or is in possession of the goods or documents of title and subsequently delivers them to a new innocent purchaser . |
| 18 | She makes her own glazes from vegetable ash and fires them in a small wood-burning kiln we built together . ’ |
| 19 | A short walk from this belvedere takes you to a wonderful steep wall which at its outer edge is taken by the final pitches of some famous harder routes like Spitophage Pervers and Dingomaniaque . |
| 20 | The composer subtitled this piece ‘ Premonitions ’ , but Chailly reduces it to a dry orchestral exercise . |
| 21 | The hobbyist 's name ‘ Quetzal ’ compares it to the Central American bird of that name almost legendary for its fabulous colours . |
| 22 | BILLED as a family show , Dragon : A Fairytale With Claws ( National Theatre , Olivier ) takes us to a far away land where a tyrant demands the annual sacrifice of a young village lass to satisfy his blood lust . |
| 23 | During this migration they receive signals from the surrounding tissues which directs them along the appropriate developmental pathway . |
| 24 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 26 | But tonight she does n't , she soaps Xanthe , urges Miranda to rub and rinse , then helps Xanthe up and lifts her clear of the edge of the tub , on to the mat , and wraps her in a pale green towel and sits her on her lap , spreading her knees to fit her on , as Xanthe is getting big for this babying , but still enjoys it , as does Serafine . |
| 27 | Although we do not yet have a proper quantum theory of gravity , let alone one that unifies it with the other physical interactions , we do have an idea of some of the features it should have . |
| 28 | Their grandfather Traveller Ward ( David Kelly ) delights in telling the wide-eyed duo gypsy tales and one day presents them with an untamed white horse , which captures their imagination . |
| 29 | I fancy that 's what bothers them about a possible American end : whether Harry 's going to do any investigation of his own ideas over here . ’ |
| 30 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |