Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
| 2 | You should certainly benefit from some kind of major career or professional change to come around the 4th and the 11th . |
| 3 | The mode and relations of production in an economy dominated by a smallholding peasantry strengthen the ability of the bureaucracy to control without strengthening the ability of other political institutions to intervene in a representative capacity . |
| 4 | However , it seems unlikely that the political will existed among many rural authorities to embark upon a rapid and expensive programme of housing construction . |
| 5 | Preventative measures are indeed being advocated by the N.S.C.A. as an interim measure to deal with the widespread nuisance caused by straw and stubble burning after harvest . |
| 6 | To embark for the islands they will need Namibian permission to pass through a restricted coastal diamond area , risking being shot on sight for straying from the road ! |
| 7 | The side was important in the development of young players with first team potential and the women should not allow an unbridgeable gap to emerge between the Premier side and the rest of the teams , as the men had . |
| 8 | This company 's activities changed and it ultimately grew too big for a sole practitioner to handle on a part-time basis . |
| 9 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 10 | There would , of course , be a temptation for small partnerships and sole traders to convert to the Limited Company form of operation just to avoid tax on distribution to the proprietors , so it might be necessary to levy a Stamp duty on companies as part of their annual running costs ; this would compensate the national exchequer for any abuse . |
| 11 | In his speech on Jan. 30 at the BCP congress Mladenov invited the political opposition to participate in a transitional coalition government until the holding of free multiparty elections ( now scheduled for May ) . |
| 12 | As a Stalinist , Nizan was doubtless reassured that prompt action to deal with the anti-Soviet activities had been taken . |
| 13 | A 60-day state of emergency was imposed in Nalchik , capital of the Russian Federation North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria , on Sept. 27 , following demonstrations by protesters demanding the release of the leader of the Confederation of Caucasus Mountain Peoples , Musa Shanibov , detained earlier in September for forming armed units to fight with the Abkhazian separatists in their conflict with Georgia [ see p. 39110 ] . |
| 14 | One is North Korea 's declared intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) after the demand of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) to inspect sites which Pyongyang says are non-nuclear . |
| 15 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 16 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 17 | When stimulated to secrete acid ( for example , by histamine ) , additional H + , K + -ATPase units become operational as tubulovesicles rich in H + , K + -ATPase move from the cytoplasmic compartment to fuse with the apical membrane . |
| 18 | Have some idea as to the effect of wind on this final turn so that , if necessary , corrective action to get onto the final approach track can be initiated out of the turn . |
| 19 | Comparing the post-acute pancreatitis patients with the controls , the time taken for labelled total protein to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly ( p<0.05 ) longer in the post-acute pancreatitis patients ( Table II , Fig 3 ) . |
| 20 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 21 | People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world . |
| 22 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 23 | For non-photosynthesizers , the premium is therefore on an increasing range and flexibility of adaptive behaviour , on developing sense organs that can detect food or predator at a distance and motor skills to move towards the desired — or away from the desiring . |
| 24 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 25 | On June 3 , 1990 , the national committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to suspend the party 's constitution because it no longer had the membership or popular support to continue as a democratic national party . |
| 26 | One of the first top riders to sign for the 1993 British League season , Rickardsson has no sympathy with riders who are refusing to sign this year because of the promoters ' strict pay policy . |
| 27 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |
| 28 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 29 | As they do so , they deposit a load of pollen within the orchid flower and immediately afterwards receive a fresh batch to carry to the next false female . |
| 30 | Each faction seems prima facie to have chosen a different side to support in the Arab-Israeli conflict . |