Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pathfinder and start boat keep on going until all the fleet have started , or for three minutes , whichever is the shorter . |
| 2 | What additional monitoring does my right hon. Friend 's Department carry out to ensure that toxic emissions can not enter the food chain ? |
| 3 | It should be noted that it is not always the lower limits of the specification that are involved ; ingredients that undergo decomposition do obviously fall but other parameters , such as total solids content , rise as the product ages , if the container is permeable to water vapour . |
| 4 | PEOPLE who believe in Sunday trading do n't realise that those who live near shops have to contend with crowds and parked cars seven days a week . |
| 5 | In view of that letter it is clear that the Crown Prosecution Service do not seek to employ any of the material disclosed by Mr. Tully in compliance with the order of Buckley J. but of course the Crown Prosecution Service can use any material which the Crown Prosecution Service have already obtained and any other material which they obtain ‘ independently ’ of the present proceedings . |
| 6 | argument because the real reason for opposing the new clause is that the Government do not believe that private sector operations should be reviewed by any consumer body or consultative committee . |
| 7 | They say that social workers who attend seminars and lectures on the subject do not realise that these ideas are being promoted by Christian Fundamentalist extremists who believe that all abuse is demonic in origin . |
| 8 | The Government have already ensured that competitive political insurance can be provided by the private market , supported where necessary by Export Credits Guarantee Department reinsurance facilities . |
| 9 | The Brazilian Government have recently declared that 94,000 sq kilometres will be set aside for the Yanomami Indians . |
| 10 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 11 | Does sending well-intentioned Westerners to do aid work in the Third World do more harm than good ? |
| 12 | WWF and its mature colleagues in the conservation world have long realised that many of the priority issues with which we are all currently concerned ( rain forest destruction , coastal marine pollution , over-exploitation , loss of diversity ) are issues which have to be tackled in parallel with those of human population increase , extreme poverty , low food production levels , lack of marketable resources and , in a few cases , uncaring , self-centred governments . |
| 13 | Policy-makers and commentators in many countries of the world have often assumed that small farmers and peasants in mountainous and/or environmentally degraded areas will abandon their hillside plots if given other opportunities elsewhere , so that the state by various means can ease population pressure on steep slopes by encouraging or at least not inhibiting colonisation of new areas . |
| 14 | Heseltine 's excuses for his conduct seem increasingly forced and incredible . |
| 15 | Lizards that have lost their tails by autotomy do not live as long as those that manage to retain them , nor do they breed as efficiently . |
| 16 | Those who argue that the modern nuclear or conjugal based family is a ‘ relatively isolated ’ unit do not deny that individual family members may maintain strong relationships with members of the families in which they were brought up ( their families of origin ) even after they have married and formed their own families ( their families of procreation ) . |
| 17 | She was quite mature in her answers , and as you will see from Document A , sir , the Visitor got the impression — we have to rely on their experience in this sort of judgement — ; that she was more or less in command of the situation and had gained poise and experience from it and that a second traumatic removal from what in fact was a secure home for her would at this stage do more harm than good , especially as the relationship between the girl and her father was not good . |
| 18 | His magnificent gifts of drawing — not exaggerating — character and of getting an atmosphere have so worked that few of us have not been to sea in frigates before the age of eighteen and come in some way in contact with non-comfortable men and women . |