Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , decorate that and the hall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Want three and a one now and I 'm away . |
| 14 | And say three and a half times sixty . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ’ Very faintly , ’ replied Grayson , referring to experimental evidence that the fine roots of Scots pine grow less and the leaves of poplars fall earlier in ambient than in unpolluted air . |
| 20 | And as we grow older and the villages and tents and armies of this world fade , we will see with Hamza , the white cities beyond the senses shine more brightly by day and by night . |
| 21 | The studios and apartments are very attractive ; the studios sleep 2–3 and the apartments sleep 4–6. 3–5 or 2–4 people in comfort . |
| 22 | He saw both truck doors fly open and the humans jumped out just as Jekub — ; |
| 23 | If the bloom is a double or semi-double , wait until the outer petals peel open but the inner petals remain closed and covering the stigma . |
| 24 | It 's home to the vast fish plants which process two and a half million tons of fishmeal every year … to be sold as animal feed . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid I 'd have to rewire this guitar in a more commonsense manner , so the toggle switch points towards the set of controls in use ( that 's the key , I think ) , and also so that the volumes sit fore and the tones aft , the way Gibsons and Fenders do . |
| 26 | They look all right but taste bland and the filling turns to runny brown jam once warmed up . |
| 27 | There is overwhelming evidence from the PEP survey to show that local concentrations of the racial minority groups are associated with poor housing , poor jobs and low incomes , and among Asians with large and often extended families with a high ratio of dependants to wage earners and consisting of people who speak little or no English . |
| 28 | People who speak little or no English may not understand the need for speed , and it may take time to get the information translated . |
| 29 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 30 | THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |