Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6.2 summarizes major evaluation projects over the five years from 1982–87 . |
| 2 | That encourages experiential learning and socialisation in a way that few Western special education or therapeutic settings do . |
| 3 | Research is concentrated on two specific areas , so that each receives in-depth survey and analysis . |
| 4 | Secondly , he should be loved wisely and that involves complete detachment from earthly values ( 112 – 13.138 – 70 ) . |
| 5 | Predicting the effect of a diversion is as difficult as predicting anything else that involves human choice . |
| 6 | The Merchant Shipping ( Oil Pollution ) Act 1971 imposes civil liability upon the owner of a ship carrying a cargo of persistent oil in bulk for escape or discharge of persistent oil from the ship . |
| 7 | Section 6.1 encourages pro-active handling of home claims in particular to direct a policyholder to tradesman or suppliers with whom we have local or national arrangements . |
| 8 | No 4472's insurance certificate granted her a 10-year ticket for her boiler ( ratified with an MOT style test every six months ) but only seven years of that covers main line running . |
| 9 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Viewlogic Systems Inc is to acquire privately-held Quad Design Technology Inc , developing software for analysing timing and interference problems in circuit designs in Camarillo , California for 872,700 new shares , giving the transaction an indicated value of $16.7m ; Viewlogic develops electronic design automation tools and did $65.8m last year ; Quad had $5.3m sales . |
| 10 | Now all that could end if The European Parliament has its way … and that worries local cheesemaker Jo Hale . |
| 11 | For the more ambitious , these brochures also include design ideas for carrying out a loft conversion and constructing a fitted kitchen , bathroom or bedroom — each contains full working instructions and lists of materials needed . |
| 12 | Ooh that looks nice sugar ! |
| 13 | That looks weird Mummy does that look weird ? |
| 14 | That looks massive boy . |
| 15 | One party to partnership can not be ‘ owned ’ and so driven by another ; each has equal status , in the nature of the reciprocal contract . |
| 16 | Congregations may belong to a Union of Baptist Churches , but each has considerable autonomy . |
| 17 | This requires action taken by a trade union to be supported by a majority in a secret ballot of all those reasonably expected to take part in the action , and in view of the practicalities of organising a ballot and the fact that advance approval of action is valid for only four weeks puts a serious constraint upon the taking of effective action even where that has overwhelming support . |
| 18 | Despite the formidable obstacles that face a fully-fledged software preservation programme there is at least one modest but significant programme of software acquisition that is technically achievable and that has affordable resource implications , namely , software for personal computers — ‘ shrink-wrapped ’ consumer software as well as custom-written special applications software . |
| 19 | The incoming expenditure account on page eight contains good news and bad news . |
| 20 | The tablets and placebo were identical in size , shape , and colour and were distributed in cellophane bags labelled with each subjects random number and test day . |
| 21 | The Series 3000 incorporates automatic calibration of wavelength , transmission and absorbance zeros together with automatic programmes for absorbance ratioing and peak seeking . |
| 22 | Figure 4.5 illustrates horizontal segregation , showing that in most occupations there is either a clear majority of women or of men ; there are very few occupations in which there is an even proportion of men and women . |
| 23 | Of course , this problem could be eased by reducing the number of constituencies in Scotland and Wales , but since Labour has overwhelming strength in Wales and majority support in Scotland , the idea of cutting down their representatives in the Commons did not appeal to a Labour Government . |
| 24 | If it were a requirement , for example , that all pupils need knowledge , skills and understanding in non-verbal communication ( body language , facial expression , and so on ) and how this influences overall communication strategies , attainment target I for the English curriculum ( speaking and listening ) might have a more integrated feel about it from a deaf perspective . |
| 25 | Presumably this influences relative salary structures further down the hierarchy as well . |
| 26 | This encourages decisive footsteering since as one rail is depressed the other is raised . |
| 27 | This encourages early flowering and fruiting . |
| 28 | This involves adiabatic elimination of the polarisation ( F 00 ) , and replacing x by the " intensity " I , equal to x2 , yielding the system which has only damped oscillatory solutions ( relaxation oscillations ) . |
| 29 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 30 | This involves exclusive dealing and retail price maintenance in return for which consumers are guaranteed a degree of protection and recompense in the case of financial failure of a tour operator . |