Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling vicar goes full circle |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " ) . |
| 5 | The third phase of the DBA involves interdisciplinary research into one or more key issues facing business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | JM Pensioner wins silver medal at International Exhibition |
| 8 | CRAY LAUNCHES MASSIVE MEMORY Y-MP M90s , CUTS LOW-END TAGS |
| 9 | A large marquee had been erected and the camp became giant rave party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new research technique using visual imagery to probe beliefs about pain . |
| 12 | In other words " hard cases make bad law " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Trainees may find it a humbling exercise to draw up their own household budget using current benefit rates as their sole income . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After the revolution of 1327 the commons in parliament sought statutory protection against the measures Edward II had taken . |
| 18 | PLANS to promote environmental tourism and encourage birdwatching in Mid-Wales have been put forward by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 19 | PLANS to promote environmental tourism and encourage birdwatching in Mid-Wales have been put forward by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 20 | A BACK injury aggravated by polo forced the Prince of Wales to pull out of the Garter ceremony today and cancel plans to attend Royal Ascot . |
| 21 | The Prince of Wales also cancelled plans to attend Royal Ascot to take the opportunity to recover from the back injury he aggravated at polo on Sunday . |
| 22 | Organizations that have horizontal and adaptive structures are able to meet the changes in market need more readily than those with cumbersome hierarchical structures , and create multifunctional development groups to plan new product developments . |
| 23 | The evolved platforms of the future , however , are also likely to feature global connectivity using broadband communication links , enabling multimedia networking worldwide . |
| 24 | The pupils probed the boundaries of accepted behaviour , trading the acceptance of a physical rebuke for the freedom to enjoy verbal skirmishing of a kind that would be generally unacceptable in school . |
| 25 | IDE drives available range from 80 to 515Mb , along with diskless and floppy-only variants . |
| 26 | The boiler produces hot water for the radiators as well as instant hot water whenever required , without the need for a bulky tank or cylinder . |
| 27 | These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation , and have to be understood metaphorically . |
| 28 | Hundreds of couples ignored the new secular ceremony instituted by the 1653 Marriage Act and sought out clergymen to conduct clandestine church weddings for them . |
| 29 | The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity . |
| 30 | Ecologist editor Nicholas Hildyard commented : " We have long known that World Bank projects bring environmental catastrophe and suffering on a grand scale . |