Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words " hard cases make bad law " . |
| 2 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 3 | These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation , and have to be understood metaphorically . |
| 4 | Ecologist editor Nicholas Hildyard commented : " We have long known that World Bank projects bring environmental catastrophe and suffering on a grand scale . |
| 5 | Each nation is seen as a kind of family , clan or tribe , assuming these entities denote common descent . |
| 6 | Laetacaras make good community fish , general or dwarf cichlid community , but must have sufficient territory if other cichlids are present . |
| 7 | To accompany the auditory imagery of verbs , the adjectives bring visual imagery , particularly of colour ( 10 ) : red , scarlet , and pink contrast vividly with black , tarred , and ashy , bringing into relief small signs of light or life against the drab and blighted background . |
| 8 | At Glendinning mine stratabound sulphide ( arsenopyrite ) horizons host minor gold while cross-cutting , quartz-antimony base metal sulphide veins are non-auriferous ( MRP 59 ) . |
| 9 | All foundations suffer some degree of settlement , since the sub-soil itself is elastic or compressible . |
| 10 | Second , women of all socio-economic groups make greater use of general practitioners than men , again relative to need . |
| 11 | Various pressure groups make that point about both the London terminuses . |
| 12 | The reasons why the lower socio-economic groups make less use of the education and health services are complex and only a brief comment can be presented here . |
| 13 | The position in relation to the use of medical services by the various socio-economic groups is as follows : the higher socio-economic groups make more use of most of the preventive local services ; the same , also , applies for the use of doctors ; the reverse , however , is the case in relation to the use of hospitals . |
| 14 | Indeed in some cases , where needs and resource assessments ( upon which GREAs are calculated ) are particularly severe , authorities lose all grant entitlement even before their expenditure reaches GREA . |
| 15 | However , many authorities lack separate provision for the younger disabled , who have to join old people in residential homes . |
| 16 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 17 | Opposition groups fear Communist attempt to regain the initiative Krenz offers ‘ round table ’ talks on free elections . |
| 18 | English clubs suffer triple knockout blow . |
| 19 | The controversy will disappear once all the member states introduce equivalent conduct of business rules but that is unlikely to be achieved in the short or perhaps even in the medium term . |
| 20 | These show that the birds make little use of the lower mudflats , which would be permanently flooded when the barrage is built , preferring the higher levels , which would still be exposed . |
| 21 | Both Lyons and Ochs stress that context must not be understood to exclude linguistic features , since such features often invoke the relevant contextual assumptions ( a point made nicely by Gumperz ( 1977 ) who calls such linguistic features contextualization cues ) . |
| 22 | Weavers and combers might at most times make common cause against clothiers , but when the import of ready-combed Irish wool was the issue at Tiverton in 1749 they came to blows . |
| 23 | Some cultures make extensive use of learned gestures and they do indeed have to be learned in the same way as one learns the word for " station " or how to refuse politely . |
| 24 | ii ) traditional and sociable : compliance and conformity to group norms bring social approval and reassurance to the individual . |
| 25 | When a manticore captures a victim the terrible rows of razor-sharp teeth make short work of bones , clothing or any other clues , thus explaining how occasionally individuals simply disappear without trace . |
| 26 | Bells make that noise . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , not all researchers favour flat organisation structures . |
| 28 | The two groups hate each other , and a High-Heel will refuse to speak to a Low-Heel . |
| 29 | Such initiatives clearly reflect the desire to ensure that central government priorities are adopted and that local authorities make optimum use of the resources which they are given . |
| 30 | More separate provision is being provided and many authorities make good use of the facilities made available by voluntary organizations . |