Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 2 | Now as she was getting inquiries for further ahead , it was possible to plan doing this . |
| 3 | The 36-year-old American is due to meet revitalised French Open finalist Mary Joe Fernandez for a place in the semifinals . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , most recent work into the psychological attitude of people as to whether areas are urban or rural has used multivariate techniques . |
| 5 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 6 | Females are just as colourful as males , and it is hopeless to try to sex this fish on the basis of colour |
| 7 | The Yugoslav government has clearly been right to try to switch inter-regional aid from a grant ( or ‘ loan ’ ) basis to a direct investment basis . |
| 8 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 9 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 10 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 11 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 12 | Those in the higher socio-economic groups and consumers over 45 years old tend to have higher net savings relative to their outstanding debt . |
| 13 | I said , but if you 're willing to sacrifice to keep all them lot happy I said and you 'd call most |
| 14 | Few MPs are willing to risk antagonizing those upon whose electoral favour they depend , especially where there are no immediately apparent benefits to be earned by the espousal of penal policies in the way that policy changes in health , housing , social security , education and the environment can be of direct benefit to their constituents . |
| 15 | The point is that both administrations have been willing to risk undermining multilateral free trade . |
| 16 | In taking this up , however , it is necessary to realise that non-Republican people in the North are not disposed to agitate to get full civil rights for Republicans ; they have to be involved in their own interests . |
| 17 | The French want to stop British imports and argue that subjecting Russian catches to a minimum import price would cut the cross-Channel trade as more British fish would sell in the UK . |
| 18 | Fresh has become frozen . |
| 19 | We should remain concerned , too , with the welfare of that substantial minority of older people for whom ( and for whose families ) ageing has brought little joy . |
| 20 | Awareness of personal attitudes to ageing has to start young . |
| 21 | I vowed I would never use anything else , for in that time this old faithful has found thousands of coins and artefacts for me — some very rare . |
| 22 | Thus although it may be quite safe to sow grasses and clovers on dry soils in the regions of low rainfall in the South and East of England in August , and in exceptional years even later , in regions of high rainfall such as prevail in Wales and most of the North and West of England it is likely to be somewhat risky to defer sowing later than about the middle of June . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm really making a plea in the lectures that if the British want to get involved in Europe , they should show a few signs , be prepared to learn other languages , open up to other cultures . |
| 24 | However , it is interesting to try to make some estimates even if we have to accept that they are , at best , only crude guidelines . |
| 25 | To come together to help the unemployed has led many churches to take part in Unemployment Sunday . |
| 26 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 27 | erm it 's very difficult to spot what 's going to go wrong in advance and some of the things you suspect are dodgy nobody has any trouble with , some of the things that you just did n't occur to you that would go wrong do go wrong , it 's like , mm mm , yeah mm |
| 28 | But he said : ‘ I have been careful to avoid modelling any of the characters on individual members of our Royal family . |
| 29 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 30 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |