Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 2 | Sheepdogs are also particularly alert to stray sheep and can easily be taught to drive stray sheep back to the shepherd . |
| 3 | A team will be formed to monitor daily media content , and monthly lectures on the role of the media in society will be held to raise social awareness of the media . |
| 4 | Yeah but I do n't want to lose seventy grand 's worth of business . |
| 5 | I did n't want to see other people . |
| 6 | Subsequently , when the remedy is given to treat sick people , other symptoms that had not been brought out in the Proving are noted to be cured by the remedy and if this happens repeatedly then those symptoms are added to the picture of that remedy . |
| 7 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 8 | Q. Would you prefer to see English people ? |
| 9 | So you 're gon na want to interview forty percent right ? |
| 10 | The 9000-year-old agriculture there is now based largely on cultigens , including taro and bananas of south-east Asia , arriving before 4500 BP , but earlier phases could have been sustained using native species , including indigenous bananas , yams , pandans and sugar cane . |
| 11 | As an owner will have been interested in keeping the value low so as not to pay a high export premium , the State will be ideally placed to acquire valuable works of art on the cheap . |
| 12 | ‘ Have n't you ever thought , ’ asked Biddy , not looking at me , ‘ that he would n't want to meet important people , he would n't want to be taken away from this job that he does well , and the village where he 's loved ? ’ |
| 13 | The underside of rocks can be carefully examined to find small fish , ( Rocklings , Blennies , Gobies , Butterfish ) crabs , anemones , starfish , urchins , or nudibranchs ( sea-slugs ) . |
| 14 | ‘ We obviously want to continue to encourage young people to buy a home of their own and feel it makes a lot of sense . ’ |
| 15 | I want to see elderly people looked after well and if they can be looked after at home all well and good but of course they need the facilities . |
| 16 | Erm I take all the motions , first to try to assure these people that we shall , we are that will be taken and I hope that that er has been achieved . |
| 17 | Our EGRESS computer model , which has received widespread media attention , is a world leader in assessing the safety of people in complex structures . |
| 18 | He deals much more with national issues rather than local ones and has received less media attention as a result . |
| 19 | I would be interested to hear from anyone who has developed other means of communicating with people with learning difficulties . |
| 20 | This class — only a small percentage of the adult population — has succeeded in preserving and expanding its wealth , and has developed effective means to ensure that both this wealth and the accompanying social attributes are transmitted across generations . |
| 21 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 22 | I can not help but wonder how much more he would have enjoyed catching those fish if he had baited the swim himself . |
| 23 | Thames has sacked 300 staff , Central 600 . |
| 24 | Test for linear trends were based on Mantel 's method modified to accommodate standarised data . |
| 25 | As a result , it is claimed to support high-performance graphics that currently require more expensive technical workstations . |
| 26 | The Matisse client software incorporates a micromodel for ease-of-use that is claimed to support any data model and includes an object-oriented template for integration with other applications . |
| 27 | This involved using existing data and also meetings with representatives from organisations involved in economic development in the valley . |
| 28 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 29 | The Thatcher Government in particular has regarded older people as a source of income for redistribution to other poor and non-poor groups . ) |
| 30 | Over the past 10 months , Holloway jobcentre has placed 2,006 people in jobs . |