Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 2 | New EEC rules change light dues |
| 3 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 4 | Travelling vicar goes full circle |
| 5 | Further , the decision to implement criminal law legislation did not originate with the state in the narrow sense at all , but with purity and feminist groups who were increasingly taking the lead in sexual politics . |
| 6 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 7 | Jamie Blair encourages young Britons whose Enterprise Allowance falls short to take up the offer . |
| 8 | Athena is part of the Pentos Group which also owns Ryman and the Dillons bookshop chain and it has a substantial organisation which goes into play to support new franchisees . |
| 9 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 10 | Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing . |
| 11 | He wants to make it easier for Government Departments to carry out projects using private investors and the commercial banks . |
| 12 | The revenue from the tax , currently around £1.2 billion per year , is intended to subsidize projects using alternative fuel sources , but at the moment more than 90 per cent goes to the nuclear industry ( which is why the tax is often called the " nuclear levy " ) . |
| 13 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 14 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 15 | Prestigious scholarly and popular series are being continued , German Expressionists , Picasso and the art of the Middle Ages remain safe favourites . |
| 16 | A situation like this could have been resolved by either the workers in the marketed sector accepting lower wages , or the employers accepting lower profits or a combination of the two . |
| 17 | ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . ) |
| 18 | The third phase of the DBA involves interdisciplinary research into one or more key issues facing business . |
| 19 | The framework in which political scientists usually consider these aspects of politics , employing the notions of ‘ political culture ’ and ‘ political socialization ’ , is too narrow to encompass all the relevant phenomena , and it is more fruitful , I think , to start from the conception of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ ( Bourdieu and Passeron , 1977 ) , which has the great merit of emphasizing that the ideas and values shaping political action are not necessarily expressed in an overtly political form , and of relating such ideas and values to the whole social structure . |
| 20 | From the evocative first ascent photo of Joe Brown and Wilf White in 1948 , which featured in the 1978 guide , through the Hard Rock treatment , the hundreds of ascents this route receives each year indicate its lasting popularity and quality . |
| 21 | Prime Minister Bob Hawke made sweeping changes in his Cabinet , appointed on April 3 following the re-election by a narrow margin of his Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) government on March 23 . |
| 22 | This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment . |
| 23 | JM Pensioner wins silver medal at International Exhibition |
| 24 | Pensioner wins 1993 community honour |
| 25 | But the story goes that money speaks , and some people , some parents , if they get hit in the pocket , will probably take more notice of their child , |
| 26 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 27 | CRAY LAUNCHES MASSIVE MEMORY Y-MP M90s , CUTS LOW-END TAGS |
| 28 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 29 | Spilt blood and other body fluids should be cleaned up with household bleach diluted one part in ten parts of water . |
| 30 | The minimum suggested fall is 1:40 , however , if a very small fall such as this is used it is important to take great care to seal all side and end laps with Rockwell sealing strip using two strips per joint . |