Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to tell only part of the story however Anna is diligent in all her studies with a determination to do as well as possible , while her powers of expression are adequate she has a fine sense of initiative and within her limitations can organise her materials persuasively . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 3 | If people are unwilling to recognise this it represents a failure of church leadership rather than political leadership . |
| 4 | Article 35 of the First protocol restates the basic rules of limitation of the methods and means of warfare and the prohibition of methods and means ‘ of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering ’ ; to this it adds a prohibition of methods or means ‘ which are intended or may be expected to cause widespread , long-term and severe damage to the natural environment ’ . |
| 5 | To do this it needs a slightly longer ‘ memory ’ than either Tit for Tat or Naive Prober . |
| 6 | To achieve this he creates a sense of the gap between the speaker and God by contrasting verbs of action which embody a sense of the dynamic power of the love of God to the speaker 's trapped stillness , and then resolves these apparent opposites as he perceives his stillness to be the very condition of the inner movement he desires . |
| 7 | For this he needs a computer at his home with a large storage capacity , and the ESRC project has been able to provide this . |
| 8 | For some it means a learning pack containing a work book , audio cassette and video tape ; for others it is a technology that combines audio , television , computers and telecommunications . |
| 9 | Dated at approximately 1430 it concerns a writ , ‘ Commission ad computa collectorem denorionum pro clausura villae ’ , which may be translated as a ‘ Commission for the hearing of the accounts of the collectors of money for the walling of a town ’ . |
| 10 | His autobiography was published on September 28 and , on October 2 he gives a talk at the National Theatre . |
| 11 | When the character of the record is electronic it requires a delivery mechanism . |
| 12 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |
| 13 | Do you know how much she pays a month ? |
| 14 | As such it offers a wide range of services : ‘ These include hardware , consultancy , on-site training and a telephone support hotline , ’ says Peter Munson . |
| 15 | It remains the criterion of pollution , despite its irregular enforcement ; as such it creates a zone of officially tolerated ‘ pollution ’ which will vary as the standard and the setting of the discharge vary . |
| 16 | The prosody of Dame Sirith may be unobtrusive , but as such it represents a smooth and polished performance that itself contributes to the tone of the work . |
| 17 | In some ways it is the loftiest , most visionary of Beethoven 's symphonies and as such it needs a visionary to conduct it . |
| 18 | His success is such that at 45 he has a salary of nearly £1m a year . |
| 19 | You see , if Bill comes over he has a go at Bill , even though he knows Bill , but because he do n't see him that much he has a go at him . |
| 20 | That 's right she has a sort of massive dose every now and then . |
| 21 | It 's quite likely she calls a taxicab every time and has it waiting round the corner out of sight . |
| 22 | On these she fixes a spiral mesh . |
| 23 | But in the minds of the sick it suffers a mutation : the lens becomes a prism , it refracts and splinters the uniform vision of the ideal interracial society . |
| 24 | Superbly illustrated in both colour and black and white it provides a guide about what to see , where to see it and what to do in living railway history . |
| 25 | In pure white it adds a freshness , cleanliness and unity to a white kitchen that brightens every day . |
| 26 | Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more . |
| 27 | I 'm sure she keeps a careful check on them . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm sure she has a dozen really pretty little formals she could have worn . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm sure she needs a bit of time to recharge after giving so much of herself this morning . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm sure it says a written comment must be made for each subject . |