Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , long-standing marital disharmony may lie behind apparent rejection ; indeed , it may be that the disability of one partner provides the first and only reliable opportunity for old people to separate . |
| 2 | Or the text may consist of connected prose passages , items of information about some aspect of British life , letters , newspaper articles and so on . |
| 3 | Calcium may protect against colorectal cancer by reducing epithelial cell turnover . |
| 4 | Additional standards relating to disinfection may apply to high risk areas . |
| 5 | An allegory may depart from everyday life into a make-believe world . |
| 6 | This warns that one of the leads to the keyboard must be twisted , and the user should beware of long component leads from the Spectrum 's PCB shorting out on the metal base . |
| 7 | And he established the principle that any decision which drew on the contingency reserve of public money should go to full Cabinet and not be taken in Cabinet committee , where the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary could all too easily fall prey to ambushes set by cabals of spending ministers . |
| 8 | Unfortunately good judgement must mature through hard experience , but it is basic commonsense to check the freezing levels on the forecast , and to ask other climbers , and particularly hut guardians for information on the condition of your proposed route . |
| 9 | Green Believers in the rich world will not save their planet unless they guarantee the sustainability of poor-world economies : rich-world money must pay for poor-world industry to go green . |
| 10 | In addition , therapeutically induced anacidity may result in bacterial overgrowth of the stomach , with consecutive displacement of H pylori . |
| 11 | The condition may lead to coronary heart disease ( CHD ) ( see Fact Sheet no. 5 ) or arterial disease affecting the legs or the brain . |
| 12 | The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution , thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident . |
| 13 | The lack of sensory feedback may lead to severe arthritis in the joints involved , called , after the nineteenth-century French physician who described the changes , Charcot 's arthropathy . |
| 14 | Although research may appear as logical analysis and mere statistics to you , clients sometimes endow it with a kind of magic . |
| 15 | Although the Sankey Commission produced four different reports , the majority report — upon the casting vote of the chairman — recommended that the coal industry should continue under national control . |
| 16 | With more equipment coming on the market , WHO decided that Cali should concentrate on long-term research and that a full-time test facility was needed in Europe . |
| 17 | It was with the aim of contributing to such an improvement , as the representative body of employers and business investors , that the 1988 Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) Task Force on business and urban regeneration came to three conclusions : first ( in line with the Government 's own beliefs ) , that business must take the lead in reversing urban decline ; second , that charity — governmental or voluntary — can not in itself deal with problems , and any regeneration must spring from private investment , commercially motivated ; and third , that the potential exists for such investment , provided that early projects are seen to succeed ( CBI , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Consideration of these areas and how they can inform classroom practice should begin in initial training . |
| 19 | The conclusion must be that monitoring and review should proceed alongside other quality control exercises which are more pragmatic , which introduce a wider range of data , and which are capable of addressing the question of optimality as well as the question of adequacy . |
| 20 | Hence , in developed countries research should focus on high risk groups , such as Australian aboriginal children ( who have considerable respiratory tract illness ) and other disadvantaged groups , those with severe infectious illnesses such as measles , and those with chronic illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and AIDs that are prone to infections . |
| 21 | It would to find altruism in the way we could find but social cooperation or self-sacrifice or altruism could evolve by natural selection . |
| 22 | The biological mechanism by which periodontal disease or poor oral hygiene could lead to coronary heart disease is not clearly established . |
| 23 | If the Chancellor was not in control the pound could go into free fall , leading to much higher interest rates , Mr Payne went on . |
| 24 | He said many scientists and doctors argued that further research could lead to improved treatment of infertility , find the causes and prevent the passing on of genetic diseases , improve contraception , and establish the causes of miscarriage . |
| 25 | The encouragement of professional readership would allow for informed debate of issues amongst teachers . |
| 26 | And there was a warning of the effect proposed cuts in British aid would have on long term projects in the third world … |
| 27 | Do you want to comment on what five thousand less than your figure would do for affordable housing ? |
| 28 | In relatively recent years the Court of Appeal had emphasised the dangers of ‘ instant justice , ’ stressing the need for reflection and to consider whether the alleged contemnor would benefit from legal advice . |
| 29 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 30 | Will he accept that it is of particular interest to householders in Chelmsford because they accept that home energy labelling will lead to substantial energy savings ? |