Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A floral competition designed to promote European harmony has ended in claims that the judging was unfair to the British entry . |
| 2 | First , maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important . |
| 3 | Tag Heuer professional sports watches for diving … series 40000 with sharkskin straps , £520 ( 071 371 6166 ) |
| 4 | Chancellor insists low inflation remains top priority |
| 5 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
| 6 | Reducing the brush bow strips to just less than in allows then to be bent without steam , and using dry wood allows the use of epoxy rather than Cascamite , retaining adequate strength despite the thinner strips . |
| 7 | The use of ‘ objective ’ business techniques of accounting to justify closures and rationalization reflecting political decisions has been extensively documented in the case of the British mining industry ( O'Donnell 1985 ) and the nationalized steel corporation ( Bryer et al. |
| 8 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 9 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 10 | Avoid using strong styling waxes as these are moisture based and can cause reds to fade . |
| 11 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 12 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 13 | Construction : a double layer construction using offset quilting helps to minimise cold spots . |
| 14 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 15 | The calves can be trained in isolation by using seated calf raises or standing calf raises . |
| 16 | A government can influence private company plans in a variety of ways , and thus achieve objectives which are essentially the same as those that could be reached by ownership . |
| 17 | The Conservatives attacked Labour tax plans strongly , focusing on the party 's proposed additional higher rate of income tax of 50 per cent for taxable incomes over £36,375 and the removal of the current £21,060 ceiling for employees ' 9 per cent national insurance contributions , which meant that the effective marginal rate of taxation on higher incomes would be 59 per cent . |
| 18 | Analysis of their expression in pheochromocytoma PC 12 cells which mimicks neuronal development has shown that the NF-L and NF-M genes are at least in part controlled at the level of transcription , whereas the induction of NF-H by nerve growth factor is controlled post-transcriptionally ( 4,5 ) . |
| 19 | To attend nearby nurseries involves car transport to or since bus timing is unsuitable . |
| 20 | EURO DISNEYLAND 's most exciting theme park offers high seas jaunts , mystic Oriental sagas and the exotic bazaar and treasures of ‘ 1001 Nights ’ . |
| 21 | Moments alone were limited to climbing his tenement stairs , smelling different cooking smells on each landing . |
| 22 | It is in fact a general feature of colliding electromagnetic plane waves that gravitational waves are always generated by the collision . |
| 23 | Expecting people to know it 's wrong to mug old ladies does n't seem unreasonable to me , but I 'm just a copper . |
| 24 | With a limited budget it has been difficult to acquire top quality works by artists on the museum 's list , however they have been fortunate in being able to purchase Robert Loder 's ( Honorary Curator of Prints , Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ) collection of 363 prints , while other works were acquired from Marlborough Fine Art . |
| 25 | Psychology 's own reluctance to acknowledge social differences renders woman-centred psychology 's denial of differences between women more intense than that of woman-centred feminism generally . |
| 26 | Some play has been made of the fact that the Government withdrew the right to claim social security benefits from most full-time students . |
| 27 | Above : Reflecting interesting ornaments creates a dramatic effect |
| 28 | The geographic distribution of Sea Life Centres makes us uniquely placed to support marine conservation endeavours right around the UK coastline and , in particular , to encourage public involvement and interest in these endeavours . |
| 29 | A firm which produces smoked fish has been hit by fire . |
| 30 | Mr Myers receives weekly management reports from each restaurant . |