Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank lending and consumer credit remain depressed and the analysts are still hopefully waiting for today 's figures on retail sales in January to provide some conclusive evidence that demand is poised to recover . |
| 2 | The majority of the workforces in the Middle East remain multinational and the vast labour forces of the Subcontinent and far East are readily available and accessible to companies operating in the Middle East . |
| 3 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 4 | In the first place the number of States that work diligently on their accident investigation responsibilities is regrettably rather small , and although their delegates may approach a divisional meeting with the same view of the agenda items their ideas can be , and all too frequently are , frustrated by States which make little or no contribution in this field of activity . |
| 5 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 6 | They then remain seated while the rest leave for the next trip . |
| 7 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 8 | In a substantial proportion of cases dischargers normally display little or no objection to the standards imposed by the agency , as a result of preparatory work in negotiations conducted by the field officer together with , in more important cases , his area supervisor . |
| 9 | On 4 January 1576 , for instance , Francis Talbot told his father , the Earl of Shrewsbury , that ‘ the Council be all at the court ; they sit daily and the ambassadors [ of France ] come to them ’ . |
| 10 | For the avoidance of doubt I make clear that the investor would not be entitled to recover more than £100,000 . |
| 11 | These contracts , whilst stating it is a condition of employment that staff accept " all reasonable assignments " , make clear that the organisation has no obligation to offer work and that staff will not be paid when there is no work for them ( the organisation refers to this as " laying the worker off " ) . |
| 12 | In addition , although they make clear that the workers are subject to Manpower 's " direction , supervision and control " , they contain a clause of delegation . |
| 13 | Under the heading ’ Protecting the Environment , the Worker and the Public ’ , the minutes state : ’ The Single European Act and the Fourth Environmental Action Programme make clear that the environment is an integral part of the Community 's economic , social , industrial , agricultural and other policies . |
| 14 | On this amp , Ch.1 is the lead channel and the standard volume , treble , middle , bass and master volume controls are also given the secondary tasks of channel select , gain 1 , gain 2 and a notch shift . |
| 15 | Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved , especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board . |
| 16 | These neutrinos can interact in the detector and mimic a proton decay ; many physicists remain unconvinced that the ‘ observed ’ proton decays are not simply due to neutrinos . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , decorate that and the hall . |
| 18 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 19 | I say this because a few days ago Spurs were linked with a different ( Swedish ) defender , so may have pulled out any interest . |
| 20 | I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book . |
| 21 | Our voices grow fainter as the mist tucks itself in above us . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a very acrimonious meeting , mostly about why we were changing lengths : the merchandisers were saying the customers want this and the designers were fighting their case and , as it was the first collection prepared without Laura present the whole time , it was not surprising that difficulties should surface , ’ Moira explained . |
| 23 | Want three and a one now and I 'm away . |
| 24 | And say three and a half times sixty . |
| 25 | The visible ones grow larger as the fog reflects up at them ; their voices become bullhorns . |
| 26 | These examples at least seem clear ; more often , buildings contain ovens or hearths which suggest bread-making but no other characteristic debris has been recognized . |
| 27 | Presumably the reason why the lights appear stationary while the " ghost " is seen to revolve is that during the duration of any light the stimulus from it is accompanied by fused after-images of the other three . |
| 28 | One has to consider the whole network of interacting influences ; not , as the critical period model attempts to do , skip all but the first and last link . |
| 29 | The PC Direct Marketers ' Association ( PCDMA ) will be officially launched by the time you read this , and consists of Dan , Mesh , Viglen , Kamco , Evesham Micros , Hi-Grade , Centerprise International and the Granville Group , which owns Time Computers and Colussus . |
| 30 | For the best Russian account in more or less modern sound there is Rozhdestvensky on mid-price Olympia ; for tip-top recording quality again there is no good reason to pay more than mid-price — I suggest Skrowaczewski and the Hallé on Pickwick . |