Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gastric varices are particularly difficult to diagnose during active bleeding . |
| 2 | It turned out , however , that the police had heard about possible sexual abuse before the father appeared in court on the physical abuse charges . |
| 3 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 4 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 5 | Again some instincts have been developed through long continued and inherited habits . |
| 6 | Racism , classism , disablism and sexism have developed through similar social processes . |
| 7 | The list is endless , but for starters : liver diseases caused by alcohol ; drug-induced illnesses ; overdoses ; aids developed through promiscuous sexual behaviour ; heart disease and circulation problems in severely obese people who can not control their desire for fattening foods ; osteoporosis and other arthritic conditions caused by ‘ couch potatoes ’ who refuse to take exercise . |
| 8 | The chief inspector had seen businessmen before , stopped for drunken driving or speeding offences , who adopted the same tactic . |
| 9 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 10 | In particular , though I noted that the farmers distinguished between different scientific sources , they credited scientists at the local Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood with more openness about the scientific uncertainties . |
| 11 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 12 | To obtain a free camera take any film along to your nearest Supasnaps branch for standard overnight film processing . |
| 13 | Similar conflicts could arise between admissible ministerial statements on the effect of a provision and , say , a construction based on the punctuation of the provision , or on prior or subsequent legislative provisions . |
| 14 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 15 | Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns . |
| 16 | One can sit leafing through glossy English magazines , reading in House and Garden about somebody 's ‘ elegantly understated ’ home in Kensington while passing within yards of a rather more understated Egyptian peasant 's home of mud-brick . |
| 17 | One song could even be the Tom Tom Club singing about rough Sapphic sex . |
| 18 | They also dance about possible new nest sites , and about water sources when water is needed to cool down the nest . |
| 19 | Allowing for certain stylistic overlaps , all medallion designs can be divided into two broad categories . |
| 20 | This ‘ step ’ is mirrored at the tip of the asymmetric headstock , and at the recess in the base of the body , with two straplock buttons either side of the base allowing for good free-standing stability . |
| 21 | The survey data also allow us to explore whether , after allowing for other identifiable differences in the characteristics of male and female workers , the labour market during the 1970s appeared to discriminate against young women compared to their male contemporaries . |
| 22 | Linkage lift depends on engine power and hydraulic capacity , and should be sized to give spare capacity over the heaviest item on the farm — allowing for extra wet-soil loading where appropriate . |
| 23 | This would be covered 2.6 times by earnings ( excluding additional tax ) or 2.3 times after fully allowing for additional Advance Corporation Tax ( ‘ ACT ’ ) . |
| 24 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 25 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 26 | The level of funding was sufficient to cover 100 per cent of the benefits that had accrued to members after allowing for expected future pay increases . |
| 27 | The level of funding was 97.3 per cent after allowing for expected future pay increases . |
| 28 | Allowing for minor environmental changes for pictures taken at , an interval of , say , one minute , these images are correct . |
| 29 | This anger and fear about Old English degeneracy was a common complaint among numerous New English settlers . |
| 30 | In the late 1960s there were 15,493 Commonwealth citizens registered for various nursing courses in the UK ( 1 ) . |