Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 2 | It is absurd to compare Webb with JPR , Halliday with Gerald Davies , Carling with Dawes or Gravell , Andrew with Bennett or John , Dewi Morris with Edwards , Richards with Mervyn Davies , Skinner with Dai Morris , Probyn with Llewelyn or Price . |
| 3 | When Ecgfrith lost control of Lindsey , Eadhaed became bishop of Ripon and when Tunberht was appointed to Hexham , Eata moved to Lindisfarne , while Trumwine , whose antecedents are unknown ( though he was remembered in Cuthbert 's circle and his subsequent retirement to Whitby suggests a background similar to Bosa 's ) , became bishop of Ecgfrith 's Pictish subjects at Abercorn on the Forth ( HE IV , 12 , 26 ) . |
| 4 | It is possible to acquire binaries from a package in place of the source modules . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is possible to classify plants in the field by taking leaf samples and performing appropriate tests ( see Dirzo & Harper , 1982a ) and to categorize the plants into four groups Ac Li , Ac li , ac Li , ac li . |
| 6 | However , it is not always possible to arrange visits to particular departments on particular days . |
| 7 | It is possible to arrange retirements on spurious ‘ medical ’ grounds , but this practice was heavily criticised by the Commons Home Affairs select committee earlier this year . |
| 8 | Where there are objections to this , it may be possible to arrange lessons at other times and/or outside school . |
| 9 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 10 | By gently scraping the mucosa and lamina propria from a small piece of resected colon with a scalpel blade and biopsying the tissue below , it was possible to compare metabolism of mucosal biopsy specimens with that of submucosal specimens ( histologically shown to contain connective tissue and muscularis ) . |
| 11 | We may be quite right to ascribe agency to a child for his acts . |
| 12 | This will especially be the case should it not be possible to agree terms with the preferred bidder , as it may then be necessary to open negotiations with another party before all the indicative offerers become aware of the initial set back . |
| 13 | Also , it will be possible to transmit instructions concerning money . |
| 14 | He had not objected to being photographed but was upset to see photographs of himself and a feature in the Sunday Mail of 4 October 1990 headed ‘ The sheer agony of a food allergy . ’ |
| 15 | The water is normally like crystal and , if you are used to British waters , it is strange to see bubbles from other divers , rising like plumes some 40 or 50 metres away . |
| 16 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 17 | For example , it is possible to monitor pollution from incinerator chimneys in hospitals and in that regard I sympathise with the hon. Member for Tooting ( Mr. Cox ) and the problems that he has in his constituency . |
| 18 | Thus it should be possible to monitor changes in admission practices , to understand the mechanisms of change during medical education and beyond , and to provide long-term validation data for the process of selection itself . |
| 19 | But it 's possible to go way beyond these limited , obvious exercises , and impro can be immensely exciting for young actors , allowing them to grasp situations and emotions imaginatively , perhaps for the first time . |
| 20 | William Lovett was indeed right to lose faith in ‘ a community of property ’ . |
| 21 | It may also be possible to claim damages against a local authority for negligently failing to ensure that construction work complied with the relevant building regulations . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's when things are economically difficult that the time is right to mount operations like this ’ he said . |
| 23 | It can be seen that in terms of the formal equations it is possible to make some juncture , but in so doing it is also possible to lose sight of the quite different perspectives from which they derive . |
| 24 | Although it is possible to lose weight by dieting alone , combining dieting with exercise will show results more quickly and improve your body shape . |
| 25 | The talks were due to include discussions of measures to reduce tension between the two states and to promote bilateral exchanges . |
| 26 | Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services . |
| 27 | My dealer says I am doing all the right things and that it 's fairly usual to lose fish with a new tank . |
| 28 | Furthermore for those borrowers who have eurobonds outstanding , it is no longer possible to issue bonds with such security in view of the negative pledge on the eurobond . |
| 29 | If the speech sounds ‘ boxy ’ or ‘ boomy ’ , this will be due to sound reflections off walls and other surfaces . |
| 30 | A more exciting spin-off still is that by feeding the digitised information into a computer-guided lathe it is possible to carve reproductions of sculptures in a variety of materials , such as wood , plaster , glass or stone . |