Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used language , the politician 's only weapon , to build a momentum for change sufficient to carry Labour to power on a modernising platform . |
| 2 | While the penalties for water pollution offences are in theory more severe than most field staff believe them to be , they remain frail in comparison with those available to sanction traditional crime . ’ |
| 3 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 4 | She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme , but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds . |
| 5 | Unfortunately our present ante-natal teacher is unable to continue due to work and family commitments , but is more than happy to answer any ante-natal queries via the telephone . |
| 6 | 27 responses as of 31 March — delayed due to distribution difficulties . |
| 7 | There are many people who suffer due to lack of affordable housing to rent and inability to cope with mortgage repayments . |
| 8 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 9 | By 1870 elementary education was compulsory for all , with low fees made possible by government funding with a school leaving age of 14 . |
| 10 | For instance , the development of a customer level database may be justifiable solely by reductions in debt made possible by customer level performance scoring systems . |
| 11 | Education itself provides enrichment to the lives of individuals in a number of ways and in so doing determines the quality of life made possible by wealth creation . |
| 12 | What this argument did not anticipate was that new , flexible methods of manufacturing made possible by electronics sharply reduced the minimum economies of plant scale . |
| 13 | This optimism would be undermined by the Dust-Bowl of the 1930s , which showed that the destruction of the soil made possible by farming would have a permanent effect on the land , just as a follower of Warming 's more materialistic approach might have predicted . |
| 14 | In the context of cuts in military expenditure made possible by disarmament in Europe , a Defence Diversification Agency would administer a fund within the defence budget to supplement private resources devoted to diversification , in order to encourage investment in civil manufacturing and the retraining of workers within the defence industry . |
| 15 | In contrast , the more commercially-attractive plots alongside Ermine Street soon attracted pottery production and then became built-up with strip buildings and workshops associated with various specialist activities , as Artis ' excavations made clear . |
| 16 | They could change the life of an elderly person in a developing country where failing eyesight is a serious problem made acute by disease , poverty and limited healthcare . |
| 17 | But she conveyed an impression of someone much older because her movements were restricted by rheumatism and her limbs made frail by lack of proper nourishment over the years . |
| 18 | Some small instrumented areas have been selected as representative of particular conditions whereas others were experimental , in which change due to logging or other forms of land use change could be monitored either by change in one basin or by comparison of several areas in which changes were taking place to differing degrees . |
| 19 | But the vote in April has fallen due for payment in September . |
| 20 | So — the taxmen argued — in the new system , tax due on interest payments in the gap from October 1985 to April 1986 would get stuck in the society 's pocket . |
| 21 | The new pole , painted in bands or blocks of red , white and blue — not striped as it is now — was erected complete with weathercock and the tradition was once again established . |
| 22 | Once married , Arnold began to give parties , admirably hosted by the young and vivacious Nancy , for the artists before whom he became speechless with respect . |
| 23 | She relies heavily on tip-offs , in turn alerting county and metropolitan records offices about historic company records due for release by liquidators . |
| 24 | In a moment I will massage her poor feet which have swollen due to inactivity and the hot weather . |
| 25 | The young England winger , laid low with illness since the start of the season , is likely to be substitute . |
| 26 | Election ‘ 92 : Hens laid low by Radio 4 election pall |
| 27 | Using strong down pressure , plane until the desired bevel has been obtained . |
| 28 | And how Landseer became rich by painting nature red in tooth and claw . |
| 29 | Sea food became scarce as fishing was hazardous and most of the beaches were mined . |
| 30 | The remaining 90 per cent of cases remained an obstinate mystery until the middle fifties , when it became possible to culture this obscure organism on the yolk-sac of the chicken embryo . |