Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That role made possible his nomination ; he was elected as an outsider and , by his own admission , he never ceased being one whilst in office . |
| 2 | Becker 's expertise as a jazz pianist made possible his study of dance musicians ( Becker 1963 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Naw its jist the wey Ah 'm staunin' haw-haw yir patter 's like watter . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Surely you are not suggesting that my daughter — ? |
| 5 | A particularly difficult situation arises in the case of a girl who is sent to hospital in need of a therapeutic abortion and refuses point blank to enter the hospital unless a guarantee is given that her parents shall not be told about it . |
| 6 | And , she forbade bodily contact , a perfectly sensible interdict given that her interviewees were boring , or scruffy , or dirty or all three . |
| 7 | Given that their deposits are ‘ money ’ , there is an overwhelming case from an economic point of view for dwelling on their similarities ( and calling them all ‘ banks ’ ) rather than on their differences . |
| 8 | The Liberals apparently entered into secret negotiations with both parties , a surprising development given that their leader , Economic Affairs Minister Itzhak Moda'i , had in 1986 resigned from a Cabinet headed by Peres after an acrimonious personal feud [ see p. 34770 ] ; Moda'i was also a noted supporter of leading hardliner Ariel Sharon . |
| 9 | Curiously , given that its UK arm does a significant amount of work on VME mainframes , there is no place for ICL Plc kit in D&B 's initial plan — not so smart , perhaps — but again , support is expected to follow shortly . |
| 10 | Founder and managing director Simon Goodfellow — a refugee from Solbourne Computer Inc 's UK operation — thinks Sparc International was unnecessarily aggressive in the way it handled the use of the Sparc trademark , given that its mission is to encourage the development of a Sparc marketplace . |
| 11 | That is to be expected , given that its decisions are based on the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 12 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 13 | Campaigning under the slogan " deliverance " , the FNM emphasised that it was time for a change , given that its free-market strategy of combating recession , high unemployment and reviving the tourist based economy differed little from the PLP 's . |
| 14 | I find it impossible to believe that the Director would contemplate sending an official to interview a defendant during his trial , even if there were anything to be gained from such a course , which is hard to see , given that his answers would not be admissible . |
| 15 | Given that his secret was safe , what else could there be ? |
| 16 | He 's a ball winner , and given that his average minutes/appearance during his time with Leeds must be about 10 , he 's knocked in his share of goals . |
| 17 | Farr-Jones dismisses the idea that his championing of IMG 's cause has compromised him , given that his brother , Peter , has joined the sporting company after working in the banking sector for many years . |
| 18 | They will probably be fairly reluctant to assist , given that your client is not a member of their union , but they might be persuaded to part with the safety minutes which contain relevant complaints that predate the accident . |
| 19 | Given that our Delegation 's 15 votes formed less than two thirds of a quota and bearing in mind that this was a first attempt , it was felt that this was a somewhat ambitious foray into the politics of the wider Trade Union Movement . |
| 20 | It leaves it unsolved , but all right , given that our ancestors had this because they wanted to swim sinusoidally and eat , you know , filter feed and do things like that , we do n't swim sinusoidally and filter feed why on earth do we are we so conservative ? |
| 21 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 22 | However , given that our interviews with users have uncovered an increasing disillusionment of heroin users with GPs , and vice versa , and given the overlap between users known to GPs and the Home Office , it is possible that , even in the case of GPs , the number of problem drug users ‘ missed ’ is not that large . |
| 23 | MAKE 1986 YOUR CHAMPAGNE YEAR |
| 24 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 25 | The Foreign Ministers of Iran , Syria and Turkey , meeting in Ankara on Nov. 14 on the initiative of Turkey 's Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel , made clear their concern about the possible Kurdish nationalist ambitions of Iraqi Kurd leaders . |
| 26 | Even those uncommitted to either side in the English dispute made clear their disapproval of any procedure ‘ that gave the keeping of the kingdom to a woman ’ . |
| 27 | The Irish Roman Catholic Church bishops yesterday made clear their disapproval of the form of wording chosen by the government to permit abortions in cases where the life of a mother-to-be is at risk . |
| 28 | It is however in the naked male figure , always the central theme of Greek art , that we first see , alongside the changed spirit , the vital loosening of formal structure by which sculptors of this generation made clear their break with archaic conventions and opened the way to classical developments . |
| 29 | The 14 allies made clear their intention of maintaining the basis of the NATO concepts of " forward defence " and " flexible response " with a mix of conventional and nuclear forces and a continued United States presence in Europe . |
| 30 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |