Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that represents an impressive reversal . |
| 2 | That displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority . |
| 3 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 4 | Youngsters from 14–17 got an exclusive insight into the repertoire of a military band as players demonstrated everything from trumpet fanfares to dance music . |
| 5 | ‘ That produces an average guideline increase of £2.08 a week , compared with £1.95 last year . |
| 6 | With this knowledge it will be possible to agree an appropriate ‘ strategy ’ for the systems project . |
| 7 | If it is not considered appropriate or possible to lodge an early Tender , then once the necessary information or Medical Report is available , the Tender should be lodged as soon as possible thereafter . |
| 8 | If that involves an overnight stay the scheme will pick up the bill for accommodation . |
| 9 | The Most Rev. George Carey , the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior cleric of the Church of England , on May 18 — in the week before he was due make an official visit to the Pope — criticized the Roman Catholic church 's policy on " artificial " methods of contraception , as contained in the Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968 [ see pp. 24239-41 ] . |
| 10 | The report that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State produced last week revealed that this year we are due to treat an extra 250,000 patients ; we are cutting the number of long ’ waiters ’ , and creating a service that is responsive to patient needs . |
| 11 | Now , it is in the nature of the critique of this aspect of classical Marxism which has already been proposed that it is not possible to erect an alternative ‘ general theory ’ . |
| 12 | Just on one of the points er made by Professor Lock erm who was arguing that it it basically was n't possible to include an agricultural land quality criterion er in the exceptions policy because there was so much good land in North Yorkshire . |
| 13 | It would be possible to include an exploratory phase , before the first students arrive . |
| 14 | For this reason it is usual to report an electronic absorption spectrum as a list of peak positions and extinction coefficients , or as a list of the extinction coefficients at various wavelengths . |
| 15 | External regulation , at least in a form that applies to all citizens equally , is legitimate , but state intervention beyond that constitutes an illicit curtailment of individual freedom . |
| 16 | That imposes an automatic 3% price cut if the harvest overshoots the maximum guaranteed quantity of 160m tonnes . |
| 17 | Sociologists and doctors agree that to uproot an old person may cause severe trauma . |
| 18 | But this growth makes it possible to obtain an additional supply of goods . |
| 19 | In addition , because informants rarely knew the actual date of birth of their friends , it was not possible to obtain an accurate identity code . |
| 20 | For uses started before that date and continued without permission ever since , it is possible to obtain an Established Use Certificate , i.e. a certificate of immunity from enforcement action . |
| 21 | With such care it was possible to obtain an upper limit of |
| 22 | Clause 74 places an upper limit on the amount of tax that any person can be liable to pay . |
| 23 | With this method it is possible to establish an objective physical link between different coins , and it is particularly important in the study of late medieval and modern coinages . |
| 24 | That drew an angry reaction from Watertight , which had invested more than £200,000 in preparation work . |
| 25 | Japan was too weak to impose an unequal treaty on China . |
| 26 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 27 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 28 | You are now facing each other in a fully square-on position and each has an equal target profile ; furthermore , each has an equal opportunity to use body weapons . |
| 29 | You are now facing each other in a fully square-on position and each has an equal target profile ; furthermore , each has an equal opportunity to use body weapons . |
| 30 | If a dove meets a dove , neither will fight ; but we might suppose that they settle the contest amicably in such a way that each has an equal chance of winning . |