Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 2 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 3 | The reasoning , however , is that problem determination is not a ‘ core competency ’ and so IBM is happy to relinquish its responsibility and concentrate on further CICS development . |
| 4 | We are happy that our streets are clean , that daily life is well-ordered , that our markets still sell locally home-produced produce and that we recycle our glass and our paper and our spent batteries . |
| 5 | The pulmonary artery pressure was 104/42/ 65 mm Hg ( systolic/diastolic/mean ) , the right ventricular pressure 103/14 mm Hg , and mean right atrial pressure 14 mm Hg . |
| 6 | These dealers cite widely varying reasons for their moves , including the search for new markets for American art , local dealing rights to the work of desirable American artists , access to art in European and Eastern European collections , favourable exchange rates and participation in the new European economic community . |
| 7 | In the present study , the poor response patients who had post-treatment calcium clearance estimations show that pamidronate effectively inhibited bone resorption , but did not correct the tubular defect . |
| 8 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
| 9 | Has it not possibly occurred to Mr Marshall that , without the audit , one could reduce one 's prices significantly and , if one is efficient , make rather more profit , providing clients with a service that they in fact desire ? |
| 10 | I hate dead white things ! |
| 11 | Earlier , the House heard the hon. Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) make wholly untrue allegations about Labour 's policies with respect to the savings and income from savings of pensioners . |
| 12 | Triticale bread has not yet gained wide acceptance in developing countries where supermarkets and bakeries sell mostly white bread made from bleached flour . |
| 13 | If you live a fast , hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods , try to consider some other alternatives . |
| 14 | Foliage begonias , with their colourful and attractively patterned leaves , make most rewarding houseplants . |
| 15 | Sooner or later , however , Mr Gandhi will decide to cut the puppets ' strings and bring on another election . |
| 16 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 17 | Sit down old chap |
| 18 | Our BBC experts track down elusive edging and special spades among other queries . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just down to the fact that they make extremely good records . |
| 20 | Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly . |
| 21 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 22 | We will reform the system for allocating grants to local councils and introduce less centralised rules on capital spending , enabling councils to make prudent long-term investment . |
| 23 | ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman . |
| 24 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 25 | And why does any star which is radiating energy not lose so much mass ( thanks to E=MC 2 ) that gravity can no longer hold it together ? |
| 26 | It 's a bunch that rides steadily , guided by experienced domestiques who know how to keep going and not lose so much time that they will be eliminated from the Tour as a whole . |
| 27 | I 've never known a dog eat so many wasps ! |
| 28 | And they all eat so much food ! |
| 29 | Together with the customary songs , choruses , and ‘ symphonies ’ , they introduce somewhat primitive recitative , e.g. Irene 's opening words in The Triumph of Peace : Incidentally Irene was sung by a tenor : Nicholas Lanier . |
| 30 | Others develop much larger ones . |