Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And , given that an average presentation may require 20 to 30 of these , that represents a substantial investment .
2 That represents a great advance and we believe that , in the long term , something valuable will come of that .
3 That represents a seventeen percent increase .
4 I use the phrase ‘ She did not say ‘ Yes ’ she did not say ‘ No ’ and that represents a hazardous situation .
5 Of those just below forty thousand were solved … that represents a clear-up rate of roughly twenty percent … and that 's ten percent below the national average .
6 In official games , Platt has been on the mark twice in 13 appearances for the Italian giants and that represents a dramatic decline in his career ratio .
7 The tremolo is Jackson 's Licensed Floyd locking system and that represents the one major departure from the Rhoads original : photo evidence reveals Randy 's choice of trem to be a non-locking Fender type .
8 One recognized an epitope from CSP , cp26 ( Fig. 3 ) , that represents the 8 amino-terminal residues of the 23 amino-acid peptide previously shown to elicit CTL in three volunteers immunized with irradiated sporozoites .
9 All that represents an impressive reversal .
10 Has that formed a satisfactory basis for planning ?
11 That displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority .
12 That made a pleasant change .
13 He could see in her face that he 'd surprised her , but that made no damned difference to Gary at all .
14 That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world .
15 Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right .
16 One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard .
17 If I was to tell you that given a perfect world that has the highest earning potential of all our companies
18 This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers .
19 But our experience has shown that given a modest toolkit and a few carving gouges , persistence and enthusiasm for the project , almost anyone can achieve a highly satisfactory result .
20 It would seem sensible , therefore , that given the current limitations of s.62 the courts ought to adopt a liberal interpretation of ‘ adversely affected ’ .
21 ( 3 ) The purchaser may consider that given the financial standing of the vendor there would be little prospect of recovery from the vendor for undisclosed liabilities of the company even if the purchaser were to succeed with a warranty claim against the vendor .
22 We therefore argued that given the radical nature of women acting as independent agents , action which still flies in the face of dominant ideologies and which challenges the nature of the family , it is astonishing how much progress women have made in this period .
23 He said that given the expressed interest of all political parties in attracting more women candidates , the research might also inform party policy and practice in this area .
24 If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma .
25 He postulated that given the right conditions and sufficient length of time , all ( or nearly all — Carroll left out the lowest live per cent ) pupils can achieve mastery .
26 The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) .
27 The reason for the complaint was that given the even numbers in the class ( now that ‘ Daz ’ was in the corridor ! ) , someone now had to work with Brian Smart .
28 The so-called roads , three in number , are scars visible around the valley , each maintaining a level contour and therefore obviously formed by water .
29 Striker Dowie and hard-man Hurlock each passed the 20 disciplinary point mark at Everton last week .
30 Well that 's a picture you build up by doing things like appraisals , assessments , things like that using the other skills .
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