Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 2 | But the complication involved in writing the program and allowing for the high number of physical variables made it impracticable at that time . |
| 3 | She looked up at him defiantly and his cold stare turned to reluctant amusement , the dark eyes holding hers flaring with that same recognition she had seen before . |
| 4 | Its general secretary , Christine Hancock , said : ‘ The investment in primary health care and the six specialty reviews make it unnecessary for any nurse to lose her job . ’ |
| 5 | But Porterfield stressed : ‘ Kevin has done very well for us since coming into the side and has made important saves to keep us alive in some games . ’ |
| 6 | The banning of one-party committees or sub-committees makes it difficult for political groups to develop policy with the benefit of officer advice . |
| 7 | This is because the solution has numerous additives to make it suitable for restorative embalming . |
| 8 | And benefit changes make it easier for more families — including single parents — to combine work and family responsibilities . |
| 9 | These enormous questions beset us all at various stages of life , but as we have seen they can be particularly problematical for older people . |
| 10 | His fellow-curates found him liable to vast silences , during which he twisted a bit of cotton with the fingers of both hands . |
| 11 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 12 | This not only affects how the male public react to policewomen in the province , it also influences how male colleagues treat policewomen in the work environment and the sorts of duties they are assigned in practice ; and the dearth of senior female officers makes it easy for male colleagues to impose such limits on the role of policewomen . |
| 13 | ‘ This year I 'm starting a programme for managers , supervisors and operators to keep them up-to-date with environmental improvement progress , ’ said 30-year-old Mike . |
| 14 | To a large extent technology has eroded much of MI6 's original style of work while modern communications make it difficult for political decisions to remain secret for very long even behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 15 | A lack of capital , the tied cottage system , and the workers ' age and lack of formal qualifications make it impossible for many to move to better jobs elsewhere ( Newby 1972a ) . |
| 16 | But the violent character of the BUF and its unashamed adoption of foreign symbols made it unattractive to many who might otherwise have agreed with some of its policies , and made it doubly obnoxious to the Left . |
| 17 | Family and employment pressures make it impossible for many parents to offer help and their feelings and attitudes need careful consideration . |
| 18 | The nature of public enterprise objectives makes it difficult for political authorities to evaluate and control the activities of the enterprises . |
| 19 | Paragraph 4–278 of Archbold , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) is to the same effect , though it must be read in the light of the guidelines , which their Lordships find it unnecessary for present purposes to consider . |
| 20 | Genetic screening , to determine if the worker 's chromosomes render him vulnerable to occupational illness , looms on the horizon . |
| 21 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 22 | The bright colours of flowers make them conspicuous from considerable distances . |
| 23 | To the employers , the entry of women made it possible at last to nibble away at — or do away with — such " restrictive practices " . |
| 24 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 25 | The new 3174 Models 14R , 24R , and 64R with Ethernet , and the Ethernet Adaptor for current 3174 controllers make it possible for attached dependent terminals — ASCIIs as well as 3270s — to access SNA and TCP/IP hosts via an Ethernet . |
| 26 | The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters . |
| 27 | Track systems make it possible for one electric source to supply a number of separate fittings without extra expensive electrical work and all the making good , or restoration work , afterwards that this entails . |
| 28 | The President gave his blessing on 20 November , and the Council of Ministers made it official on 27 January , 1982 . |
| 29 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 30 | Indeed , wills and inventories tell us more about such people than any other source . |