Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 2 | Hence it is vain to go to historical consciousness for the truest meaning . |
| 3 | His eyes scanned the wounded propped against half-demolished walls , lying amidst smashed furniture , or sprawling on the floor , and those who lay with faces covered . |
| 4 | We were aware that , because of the Woolf inquiry , it was not possible to go into great detail into what happpened at Strangeways . |
| 5 | It may be possible to claim on medical insurance if prescribed by a doctor/specialist . |
| 6 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 7 | Ideally , the boots should have a stiffened , cleated sole to cope with uneven ground , and good quality leather uppers to repel moisture and hold the foot firmly . |
| 8 | First , where judgment was in a sum of money , it was possible to proceed against individual items of the debtor 's property . |
| 9 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 10 | It should be possible to search for specified strings of text and modify these either individually or collectively . |
| 11 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 12 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 13 | For many years a mixture of alumina and glass was used because the glass gave a good visual approximation to a natural tooth while the alumina was sufficiently strong to cope with biting loads . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , they should be possible to obtain from elderly patients undergoing orchidectomy in the course of treatment for prostatic cancer , or from young men undergoing infertility investigations . |
| 15 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 16 | But his eye is too keen and his feel for the different histories of these nations too strong to slip into one-answer explanations . |
| 17 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 18 | Again , such schemes seem to be far too broad to relate to detailed aspects of linguistic structure . |
| 19 | As we can not use an anharmonic force field in the analysis , it may seem preferable to work with idealized harmonic frequencies rather than the observed vibration frequencies , which include anharmonic contributions . |
| 20 | She was at home on the lonely hills , but she felt guilty surrounded by innocent nature . |
| 21 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 22 | Not all solicitors work in private practice of course , and it is possible to train in other areas such as local and central government and in commerce and industry . |
| 23 | We know that the projected new Ilyushin Y-type fighter aircraft is n't due to come into full-scale production much before the early 1980S … perhaps two more years before they are in full service with trained pilots and maintenance crews . |
| 24 | Civilian emergency services , including the police underwater team , were due to work alongside military personnel under the overall co-ordination of the police . |
| 25 | It is perhaps remarkable how predictable ( though not exactly inflexible ) the operation of a modern airliner is , even to the extent of it being possible to know within small limits what the pilots will be doing at any particular time . |
| 26 | It is thus possible to conceive of certain functional properties that can be defined as being geometry controlling or geometry checking . |
| 27 | It would not be possible to conceive of Ultimate Concern apart from particular modes of religious discourse . |
| 28 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of different types of ontological individuals , but there is no such " principle of individuation " as might enable us to pronounce any given type as basic in an absolute sense . |
| 29 | It might perhaps be possible to work with small groups of youngsters in their own area ( one such group is working with Margaret in Surrey ) and incorporate some of their work with that of the main team . |
| 30 | However , in order that the scheme could , if successful , be relatively easily incorporated by local authorities into existing patterns of service provision it was decided not to substitute but to see whether it was possible to work alongside other services . |