Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Removal usual involves inconvenient trips to the hospital , tubes in the stomach , that sort of thing |
| 2 | Christopher Powell , chairman , said negotiations continue in the construction division on a number of projects due to start this year . |
| 3 | It attracted hundreds of people who were looking for something a little bit different to eat this Christmas . |
| 4 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 5 | As for payment times , we can not disagree : they are unpredictable , and only those institutions willing to sustain major expenses , after the contract is signed and until the funds are finally transferred , should consider working with these programmes . |
| 6 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 7 | Pre-construction work has begun , with the 14 month building programme due to begin next year . |
| 8 | After a breakfast taken at a marginally more leisured pace than normal , those recruits due to parade that day return to the platoon lines to add finishing touches to the uniforms and equipment to be worn later in the morning . |
| 9 | The immediate challenge to present Western labour standards , he said , could come from the former communist states , where unemployment was growing rapidly , creating a pool of accessible labour willing to accept low pay . |
| 10 | With neither Rank nor ABPC willing to undertake adventurous production , the initiative passed to independent companies like John and James Woolf 's Romulus Productions , the Boultings ' Charter Productions and numerous others . |
| 11 | The Board of Guardians gave notice that medical gentlemen willing to furnish medical relief to the paupers resident in the Bedford workhouse , with special arrangements ( fees ) for midwifery , were to send sealed tenders to Mr. Samuel Wing , clerk to the guardians , stating their ‘ terms per case ’ . |
| 12 | In both trials , at each dosing round , children aged less than 6 months were not eligible , children 6–11 months old received 100,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo , and children 12 months or older were given 200,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo . |
| 13 | Changes in the provision of health care and increasing awareness of the demoralising effects of our traditional system on the students going through it are driving changes , and we may be poised on the brink of a steep acceleration in the number of schools willing to make radical changes in their courses . |
| 14 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 15 | The D-type bistable has two inputs — one called Data ( D ) and the other , Clock ( Ck ) . |
| 16 | S. ‘ Joseph Rock ’ produces bright yellow berries while S. hupehensis has blue-green foliage complemented by pink fruits . |
| 17 | The average £350 package tour would jump by 10 per cent , with more exotic trips likely to incur larger increases , Sidney Perez told the conference . |
| 18 | Goldwater 's enemies presented the Senator as a harsh , uncompromising ideologue , a threatening figure likely to abolish social security and to get the United States involved in a nuclear war . |
| 19 | This may need to be supported by actual action likely to undermine public confidence in the exchange . |
| 20 | To do this the Commission must have regard to barriers to entry likely to deter new market entrants and to whether a result of the merger is likely to be a significant raising of those barriers . |
| 21 | remain in Japan even after the Peace Treaty , since the Japanese police were too few and their armament inadequate to maintain public order should the Communists attempt an offensive in Asia as they had already done in Europe . |
| 22 | Such a mechanism is particularly useful if there is a need to alter the kinds of proteins present to meet changing circumstances . |
| 23 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
| 24 | Official Soviet reports at the close of the talks stated that the meeting ended on " a sour note " with neither side able to reach common ground or agreement over the territorial issue . |
| 25 | Thus many schools concerned to teach scientific subjects in a more active fashion , Nuffield-based or not , have sought to employ a judicious mixture of " lead lessons " , directed laboratory practice , and increasingly open-ended problem-solving activity . |
| 26 | Is the agent able to provide technical support or after-sales service arrangements if this is necessary ? |
| 27 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 28 | However , an exception provides that recognition will not expire solely because the death of a shareholder or shareholders has left the recognised body with no shareholder able to exercise such voting rights . |
| 29 | In the midst of this free-for-all , the state appears as the guardian of the common interest , a force able to check rapacious greed , protect the weak and defenceless and uphold the values of the polity ; in short , a set of institutions which , though not neutral , are not allied with any one class . |
| 30 | In addition the spread of the franchise necessitated an electorate able to evaluate political issues , preferably in a manner acceptable to the existing controllers of politics . |