Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One assumption is that any intelligent species will in due course develop a technology , just as we have done . |
| 2 | As between the three common law Inns the choice does not really matter : you can quite well be a member of one Inn , become a pupil in chambers belonging to a second , and in due course attain a seat in chambers belonging to a third . |
| 3 | I have my doubts about this one but you may in due course get a proposal from him . |
| 4 | Thus point stimuli located at the centre of the receptive field produce a large output while stimuli falling away from the centre produce a smaller output . |
| 5 | The machine-based fundament of modern civilisation has emancipated even those most exposed to severance from the requirements of life ; broader and less mutilated existence become a viable possibility . |
| 6 | It is suggested that this non-invasive techniquemay provide a useful screening test of the pathophysiological basis of the functional obstruction in children with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction . |
| 7 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 8 | Many people who are admired for their career success and professional expertise feel a failure . |
| 9 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 10 | ( a ) Where all or any of the principals of a multi-national partnership have a separate legal practice as foreign lawyers : |
| 11 | Could a private citizen obtain a court order to prevent post office workers boycotting mail to South Africa ? |
| 12 | Leaves grown under strong light have a slight brownish or pinkish tinge . |
| 13 | The slurs in the left-hand part indicate a smooth sustained bass . |
| 14 | The numbers of lymphocytes of CD45R0-positive phenotype with unstable chromosomal damage ( filled diamonds ) follows an exponential decay with time , whereas those with CD45RA-positive phenotype and unstable damage follow a differing decay pattern ( open squares ) with an increase in cell numbers , followed by a decrease . |
| 15 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 16 | Like all good leaders , he has stoutly defended his men at various times as the victims of smog , aggressive prawns and a railway system which makes even British Rail resemble a Swiss timepiece . |
| 17 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd say it was incredible if only one airline operated from Newcastle Airport , so why should British Rail have a monopoly . |
| 19 | And particularly when British Rail have a declared policy of improving access for the disabled . |
| 20 | The revolution of thought which took place in France in the 1960s , with the work of Barthes , Foucault , Kristeva , Derrida and Lacan , has transformed our perception of the subject , the teaching of both language and literature , and we realise that the varieties of English teaching reflect a variety of ideological assumptions . |
| 21 | Paradoxically , Lukacs 's comments at the theoretical level mark a return to the collaborative possibilities that were available at a practical level in France during the 1930s . |
| 22 | EARLY figures from the 1991 British census show a slight drop in population throughout County Durham . |
| 23 | Workers at British Aerospace fear a proposed deal with Indonesia could threaten more jobs at Prestwick . |
| 24 | Those in hospital long-stay provision include a larger percentage of men , about 32 per cent , and a higher number who are still married , about 16 per cent ( Capewell et al . |
| 25 | The Board of Inland Revenue issue a very helpful free booklet entitled Income Tax and the Elderly , which can be obtained from any Inland Revenue office . |
| 26 | Nowadays , the Zany Couriers of the Inland Revenue dispatch a sheaf of press releases to newspapers , television and radio channels throughout the country one minute after the Chancellor sits down . |
| 27 | Ca n't old Shallot have a run of luck ? |
| 28 | There is nothing like the sight of death and blood to make old Shallot want a cup of sack or a goblet of wine ! |
| 29 | A cost-benefit approach may well yield a different result form a purely moral one . |
| 30 | The debates on sexual violence raise a series of questions about the way that ideas on this subject are constructed and maintained . |