Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | MICHAEL Heseltine , the new Secretary of State for Trade & Industry may be interested to know that his powerful exhortations last week to vote Tory were unsuccessful with his daughter Annabel . |
2 | This procedure is perfectly acceptable provided that your new commitments are at least as great as the remaining commitments due under the orignal covenant . |
3 | I was even more infuriated to read that their short separation was a ‘ tragedy ’ . |
4 | Thus rebuffed , Wilson was willing to consider that my own formula — inadequate and clumsy as it was — might at least be presented to the union . |
5 | Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life . |
6 | It is interesting to note that their normal values were similar to ours , which shows a degree of reproducibility in the normal range . |
7 | It is interesting to note that his three criteria for distinguishing reality from illusion can be found also in the works of those philosophers , such as Descartes and Locke , whose view he rejects . |
8 | So unless we can say , as we said above for knowledge , that you can not claim your belief is justified unless you can tell the difference between cases where such beliefs are true and cases where they are false , it will be impossible to conclude that your true belief here is unjustified . |
9 | Correct Letters is dead easy to use and its main advantage is time-saving . |
10 | It is dual voltage , so it 's easy to use and its large barrel makes it perfect for creating the fuller . |
11 | Our kits are easy to assemble and our extensive knowledge and experience is always on hand to help you achieve the best possible end result . |
12 | These exciting eyeliners are easy to control and their soft texture prevents dragging around the delicate eye area PLUS they have a long-lasting formula ! |
13 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
14 | It is this straight talking and her lived-in looks that after 10 years hard slog have finally made her hot film property . |
15 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
16 | And it was impossible to tell whether her own gaze held anything more than the bewildered gratitude and regret that were clearly there . |
17 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
18 | Generally speaking , a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period . |
19 | It was at least gratifying to know that his initial dislike of the young man had been justified . |
20 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |
21 | It would be unfair to suggest that our Victorian predecessors deliberately compared tribal customs with those of early man in order to discredit the indigenous peoples they were colonizing . |
22 | There is no doubt that poor men were more likely to emigrate than richer ones , and that they were more likely to emigrate if their traditional livelihood had become difficult or impossible . |
23 | Yet he had clearly been naive to suppose that his American-accented Italian would be acceptable . |
24 | So it is natural to ask whether his optimistic conclusions — about the success of non-envious , forgiving niceness — also apply in the world of nature . |
25 | If asked , at this stage , each side would be likely to reply that its standard conditions governed the transaction . |
26 | Fundamental ergonomics reveal that this makes the keys more comfortable to operate and their printed surfaces easier to identify . |
27 | Probing to know if its new-gnarled root |
28 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
29 | Rab C , that one-man marketing campaign for pie suppers which shed more oil than grounded tankers , might not be impressed to hear that his local hospital in Govan has begun a crusade to offer patients and staff a healthier diet . |
30 | The liberal humanist tradition is unwilling to admit that its own choices are political ; that Leavis 's intense dislike , for example , of Shelley , was based as much upon political considerations as aesthetic ones . |