Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ? |
| 2 | Visitors are welcome at Ormesby Hall 's Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon sessions if anyone wants more information . |
| 3 | To ask the Minister for the Arts whether he has any plans to visit Barnet to discuss the private sponsorship of the arts . |
| 4 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 5 | Ma is trying to apologise for it with her eyes as she sucks khaki splodges from the sleeve of her cardigan . |
| 6 | More or less handmade , a pocket-sprung mattress is expensive but the best bet for couples of differing weights as it gives each sleeper individual support . |
| 7 | It is particularly prevalent in developing countries where it claims 250000 victims each year . |
| 8 | Firstly , harmonisation of national policies , especially in areas where it offers obvious advantages , e.g. labour mobility . |
| 9 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 10 | It would also have many applications in Third World countries since it uses rubber tyres in both modes and thereby has an incline capability of ⅙ This means that in Third World countries instead of flattening the mountains and filling the valleys to make them level to one could follow the contours of the countryside and enormously reduce civil engineering costs . |
| 11 | His first duty is to realise his full potential as a human being , and to explore all possibilities until he reaches enlightened fulfilment . |
| 12 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 13 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 14 | He crumples the paper , pretends to put it in his mouth , then billows his cheeks until he regurgitates tiny pieces all over his chest . |
| 15 | The unfavourable prospect for exports is perhaps the most damaging of Africa 's economic weaknesses since it implies continued dependence on unstable , and on the whole , unfavourable commodity markets . |
| 16 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 17 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any plans to visit Indonesia to discuss assistance to East Timor . |
| 19 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 20 | The newly-elected councillor must not expect to be elected to the more important committees unless he has special qualifications for any committee . |
| 21 | If a large customer is late in making payment , a firm may be unable to pay its suppliers unless it has spare liquidity . |
| 22 | But he has got himself into difficulties because he thinks that beauty is not , so to speak , a logical construction that allows us to talk about particular objects in the world . |
| 23 | Throughout the book Eccleshall demonstrates an impressive authority and ease with his sources as he ransacks 300 years of Conservative thought to discover the meaning of Conservatism . |
| 24 | PYRAMID TO TAKE $23m HIT AGAINST ITS FIGURES AS IT CUTS 110 JOBS |
| 25 | An area of mystery is rational to God , but faith must suspend judgement and not press human reason to answer questions when it has insufficient information . |
| 26 | Avoid flailing the vegetation in the gaps in the hedges because it prevents natural regeneration . |
| 27 | Counter-intuitively , keeping imports low may boost France 's trade deficit in manufactures because it prevents French firms specialising in what they do best . |
| 28 | Taken in by the slow-breathing soil creatures , the toxin accumulates in their bodies until it reaches lethal proportions . |
| 29 | Again this represents a considerable increase over the national rates whether one considers lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas or all malignant disease and for both 1963–90 and 1984–90 . |
| 30 | The model is couched in ex-ante terms as it specifies expected security returns as a function of the expected return on the market portfolio . |