Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Travelling vicar goes full circle |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " ) . |
| 8 | The third phase of the DBA involves interdisciplinary research into one or more key issues facing business . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | JM Pensioner wins silver medal at International Exhibition |
| 12 | Pensioner wins 1993 community honour |
| 13 | 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 , |
| 14 | CRAY LAUNCHES MASSIVE MEMORY Y-MP M90s , CUTS LOW-END TAGS |
| 15 | Spilt blood and other body fluids should be cleaned up with household bleach diluted one part in ten parts of water . |
| 16 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 17 | A large marquee had been erected and the camp became giant rave party . |
| 18 | No ghost haunts this apartment . |
| 19 | The judgement led one observer to point out ruefully that there now existed a situation where two tribunals faced with similar circumstances could quite reasonably come to different conclusions , and that their rulings could not be overturned on appeal in the Interests of consistency ( IRS , 1985a ) . |
| 20 | A technique using ordinary sausage skins is being employed to restore the 700 parchment rolls of documents dating from 1275 which make up the Wakefield Manor Court archive , now owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society . |
| 21 | Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new research technique using visual imagery to probe beliefs about pain . |
| 22 | Fig 8 Carry the board using one hand on the daggerboard and the other in the mast track |
| 23 | In other words " hard cases make bad law " . |
| 24 | In villages , educational workers would drag women out of their houses to attend mass literacy classes , in others the cadres of the party kidnapped the wife of the mullah on the grounds that , wherever she went , other women would follow . |
| 25 | On Dec. 20 , after talks in Delhi with the central government , all the Cabinet ministers resigned to allow Abdullah to conduct another Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 26 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 27 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |
| 28 | Trainees may find it a humbling exercise to draw up their own household budget using current benefit rates as their sole income . |
| 29 | Why do some authorities make greater provision for pupils with special needs than other authorities faced with the same Problems ? ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately he made the mistake of undoing his straps before force-landing in the water and was thrown forward , breaking his nose on the remnants of the windscreen as one of the Messerschmitts passed low overhead . |