Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 2 | Delegate Geoff Wright , from Leeds city Council , recently awarded an MBE for environmental services , said ‘ It 's clear that recycling domestic waste is fast becoming a growth industry in its own right , which can only be good news for waste avoidance in our towns and countryside and for the economy . ’ |
| 3 | However , it has become clear that to implement such knowledge in language processing systems it is necessary to use semantics in its broader sense , i.e. using encyclopaedic knowledge and general knowledge . |
| 4 | Perhaps the mightiest indoor rally ever held in Britain , Mosley had no sooner begun to speak than it became clear that organised Red gangs , each hundreds strong , were occupying positions in every part of the huge arena … with the sole intention of preventing the speech being heard . |
| 5 | It will be clear that to understand social policy considerable attention must be given to the findings of political science . |
| 6 | Thus it is clear that to develop heavy industry one must increase the supply of products at all costs and by all means . |
| 7 | The company makes it quite clear that giving younger people career opportunities may mean moving older employees down the status ladder . |
| 8 | The high that resulted produced sensations of flying , often accompanied by fantastic visions of strange lands . |
| 9 | While we have avoided lethal doses of the first two , in the community tank , levels of nitrate were so high that to introduce new fish might have been lethal ( hence the swords being elsewhere ) . |
| 10 | We feel the savage assault and the cold breath of the infinite that causes this frost of many colours and the stilling of the images , with its beauty . |
| 11 | It was perhaps the heightened awareness , evident in this film , of what distinguished the Americans from the British that produced such a weird send-up of the archetypal Englishman in the company 's popular adaptation of Rider Haggard 's King Solomon 's Mines ( 1937 ) . |
| 12 | PPC : Back issues are available from our subscriptions department on 091 510 8787 , but I 'm afraid that issue 3 ( the August issue ) sold out — there are none of that issue left ! ) . |
| 13 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 14 | A torch spat light that splashed dazzling between the shadows . |
| 15 | There are some generative grammars which resolve this ambiguity by use of a metric that ranks alternative parses ( e.g. PEG ( Jensen 1986 ) ) , or by the inclusion of statistical information into the grammar rules ( e.g. METAL ( Thurmair1990 ) ) . |
| 16 | In ten minutes , a tree hundreds of years old that supports many other plant and animal lives can be destroyed with the snick of a chainsaw . |
| 17 | There seems a reluctance by agencies to act in cases of physical or emotional elder abuse ; it is possible that to introduce complex procedures will merely increase anxieties and exacerbate problems . |
| 18 | This case falls within ( a ) : the school was so over-subscribed that to admit all the applicants would have prejudiced the provision of efficient education . |
| 19 | ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest . |
| 20 | We have a line charge in front of a dielectric that fills half the space . |
| 21 | Local telecoms-equipment makers can supply only feeble 1950s gear ; and foreign exchange is so scarce that importing fancy western hardware or technology is impossible . |
| 22 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 23 | If we translate the colloquial meaning of ‘ nice guy ’ into its Darwinian equivalent , a nice guy is an individual that assists other members of its species , at its own expense , to pass their genes on to the next generation . |
| 24 | It was wholly appropriate that to reach this landmark the jockey would have to produce one of his greatest efforts . |
| 25 | At the time it seemed one of the better right hands I 've ever thrown — from the shoulder , punching not at but through the target , with half-pivot that threw all my weight behind the blow . |
| 26 | Tufte introduces the idea of data-ink to describe any part of a graphic that conveys measured quantities by , for instance , position on the page , by length , or by the word or numerals it forms . |
| 27 | Rank was so convinced that making expensive films was the way to break through into the American market that he made no attempt to rein back costs . |
| 28 | At Sussex , we have analysed a variety of models for population genetic that make different assumptions about ( 1 ) the grouping patterns of prey , and their breeding systems , degree of conspicuousness and palatability , ( 2 ) the ability of predators to learn and remember , and ( 3 ) the population densities of predator and prey . |
| 29 | It became obvious that to insert any metal object into a hole containing explosive was highly dangerous . |
| 30 | right er it 's unusual that knocking that is n't it ? |