Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When govt. adopted free trade in the middle of the 19th Century , the people got cheaper grain to buy , & larger choices , & also relations with other countries were improved , so that the risk of wars were reduced , & this meant less taxes for the people , because the country was spending less . |
| 2 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 3 | Apart from the USA , the other nuclear states have issued pronouncements of one kind or another indicating certain restraints on deployment or possible use . |
| 4 | path er Jim then we 're gon na have er five or six set different volumes of procedures . |
| 5 | Action plans included laying coats and baggage over every nearby seat , spreading the wrappings of the BR egg'n'cress far and wide ( before the new Sir Clement shrink-wrap ) or simple feigning noisy sleep at every station . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope to provide two or three reports each week in the series , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It would not be practical or useful to teach all learners of English to produce assimilations ; practice in making elisions is more useful , and it is clearly valuable to do exercises related to rhythm and linking . |
| 8 | For many teachers the self-appraisal failed to be a major event , either because they were not required to participate in any review activities or because they were unable or unwilling to devote much time to it . |
| 9 | Resulting deficiencies in the treatment of acutely ill patients can place intolerable burdens on their families and increase interpersonal friction , which may culminate in patients leaving home abruptly and being unable or unwilling to find alternative forms of shelter . |
| 10 | To give time , you must have it — and to have it , you must either be out of work or able to spare valuable hours outside your job . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) The proposal is a friendly merger with the larger company wishing to acquire the smaller company but there is known to be a difficult minority shareholder in the smaller company holding above 10 per cent of the voting rights ( or able to muster that level of support against the proposal ) which could prevent the larger company implementing the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 . |
| 12 | In sum , the patented article or process may require to undergo extensive trials and refinements before it is sufficiently ‘ productionised ’ or marketable to generate identifiable gains for the employer . |
| 13 | Paul Marsh , Chairman of the Property and Commercial Services Committee of the Council , said today ‘ The strategy reflects the enormous changes which have taken place in the profession over the last three years and the absolute need for firms of solicitors large or small to provide legal services to the public in the form which the public want those services supplied . ’ |
| 14 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 15 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 16 | At most this may require re-definition of one or other policy ; more often it probably requires the exercise of discretionary powers associated with one or other to enable special circumstances to be recognized . |
| 17 | It is not always clear how far it is possible or desirable to integrate such students into the regular adult programme . |
| 18 | However , it has neither been thought desirable nor feasible to require formal evaluations of alternative programmes , treatments or technologies at the local level . |
| 19 | It is neither possible nor desirable to fix any language at one point in time and keep it the same ever afterwards . |
| 20 | Secondly , he should be loved wisely and that involves complete detachment from earthly values ( 112 – 13.138 – 70 ) . |
| 21 | There was nowhere to park the car , and that solved any uncertainty about how to handle the parting ; before she slid out she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek like a schoolyard dare , and was gone before there could be any reaction . |
| 22 | We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need . |
| 23 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 24 | We have been told that it develops holes which allow radiation through and that causes all sorts of curious and devastating effects . |
| 25 | But poll tax capping means cuts in County Council budgets , and that means substantial reductions in the number of new books the library can buy . |
| 26 | It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’ |
| 27 | Economic development means more purchasing power in the hands of individuals and that means rapid growth for cosmetics , toiletries , pharmaceutical products — all the markets we supply . |
| 28 | Now , in his second full term in charge , Reid wants an improvement — and that means some silverware on the table . |
| 29 | They should n't be , because the Minors have won precisely eight out of 244 matches in which they have participated since 1964 — and that includes two victories by Durham , and the celebrated bowling shoot-out at Bishop 's Stortford last year . |
| 30 | If he plays in all five Pakistan Tests , he will be one short of 100 appearances for England , and that includes three years in the middle of his career when he was banned from selection for involvement in a rebel tour of South Africa . |