Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it 's very pleasant to see that a goodly swathe of video cards is supported directly . |
| 2 | Any parishioner who would like to be present should phone Valerie Belton as soon as possible to see if a coach ( or two ) should be booked . |
| 3 | Currently it is usual to find that a contract cleaning company may be used to look after the offices and toilets , but production areas are generally ‘ out of bounds ’ , because they are considered too sensitive . |
| 4 | It is usual to indicate that a consonant is syllabic by means of a small vertical mark , for example ‘ cattle ’ . |
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| 6 | In the spring of 1932 the British announced that a flotilla of three destroyers was to grace the city with a visit . |
| 7 | When it comes to the most sensitive and important areas of journalism , like Northern Ireland or official secrecy , British broadcasters are less free to report than a camera team arriving from Perugia or Poughkeepsie . |
| 8 | She caught herself wondering whether it mattered if Pascoe had done it , whether it was invariably wrong to kill when a murder meant removing a menace . |
| 9 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 10 | I chose not to buy it that day , so I was interested to see whether a longer look at it would change those initial impressions . |
| 11 | But it 's interesting to know that a lot of the copies either must have copies , which they should have or that they know what bin it . |
| 12 | It seems that the Government are not prepared to accept that a lot of people are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the system and the bureaucracy that the Government have created . |
| 13 | So erm on on the basis on the assumption on the assumption that you 've put to me , then I would be prepared to accept that a hundred and twenty two hectares would be a reasonable level . |
| 14 | There is no indication as to why this name was chosen but you may be interested to know that a Grizzled Skipper is a butterfly that , unlike the Grizzled Skipper card , is not at all colourful . |
| 15 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 16 | Being prepared to listen while a patient expresses his concerns and distress is another important aspect of therapy . |
| 17 | It is unrealistic to assume that a junior will confide in you unless you are prepared to confide in him or her . |
| 18 | It would be unrealistic to suggest that a good organic diet , daily meditation and aromatherapy massage is the answer to life 's problems , and that it will somehow cocoon us in an etheric pink haze for the rest of our days ! |
| 19 | The question of long and short sight was to become a hot subject for debate as the Argentinians invaded the Falkland Islands , Lord Carrington ( no details of the state of his vision ) resigned , carriers were hurriedly prepared to sail and a blockade of the islands was declared . |
| 20 | It would be foolish to suggest that a river should never be tapped for energy or for agriculture , but the world 's politicians have not yet chosen to realize what enormous consequences such action has , or how long those consequences take to unfold , or — an essential consideration — that it is literally impossible to predict all that will ensue when a river is tapped . |
| 21 | While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence . |
| 22 | Given the similarities between the financial services and audit regimes , it would be foolish to imagine that a revolution in the former would not , at the very least , reopen the debate about audit regulation . |
| 23 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 24 | The creation of a saint-cult depended essentially on two factors : the first was the existence of a congregation willing to recognize that a particular place , usually a tomb , was invested with special power ; the second was the official recognition of the site by the Church authorities , that is the local bishop . |
| 25 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 26 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
| 27 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 28 | It would be wrong to suppose that a depiction on a coin is an exact reproduction of an ancient building , as this is to misunderstand the intentions of the die engraver . |
| 29 | Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 : |
| 30 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |