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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 But few of them can be done in isolation and all require some element of partnership .
2 Gilbert had watched the violence in the office , frozen in fear and unable to prevent any of it .
3 The current financial services turnover and this has this has been published in the Financial Times and the Telegraph is somewhere in the region of between eight five and ninety percent .
4 It is also an example of communal living and co-operative working that is a success .
5 At that point , we believed that the Bill would be an irrelevance and unnecessary given that prisoners can already be charged with a wide range of criminal offences , including offences under the Public Order Act 1986 .
6 Mr Bergg said : ‘ When you approach Darlington the first thing you see are two posters from Conservative and Labour criticising each other that sums up their campaigns . ’
7 Windows'DDE and OLE permits much more complexity in data relationships than you 'll find in character-based systems , and the same technology provides scope for the emerging goodies of multimedia computer applications .
8 You ‘ Il be very glad you did this if you turn up one day to find the river high and murky because if , for example , you know that one swim has a lovely clean gravel bottom and another has half a Morris 1000 and a blackberry bush in it then this may help you decide where to fish and where to stick your mate !
9 Many of the coarse fish are spawning in the vegetation at the side of the waterways from February through to July and April is the first full month that the fishermen give them the peace and quiet to do this .
10 ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done .
11 There is a suggestion that the growth-controlling auxin gravitates to the bottom of the bough and this produces more wood on the compression face , but to me , this is only a partial answer .
12 For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective .
13 It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’
14 One can use axiom P and 1.2.4 to establish all the familiar properties of the unc sign .
15 Around 30 Young Engineers Clubs are now established between Thurso and Dumfries and these involve some 900 boys and girls .
16 The greater this interaction between chains the more favourable will be the energy parameter and this provides some indication of the type of chain which might be expected to crystallize from the melt , viz.
17 The purpose of this chapter is to describe the rest of the machinery through which the political leadership operates outside Whitehall and this includes more than just the system of local government .
18 Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history .
19 For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status .
20 Most of them would never set eyes on the place and few felt any loyalty towards it .
21 He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely .
22 One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea .
23 Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on .
24 This dominance in modern times is attributed by Hayek to the success of the Philosophical Radicals of the nineteenth century in replacing the ideal of government under law with the ideal of a government controlled by a popular assembly and free to take any action of which that assembly approved .
25 He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck .
26 If this aroma is appealing , blend into a perfume ( see page 69 ) at the rate of 10 drops of bergamot and 5 drops each of lavender and sandalwood .
27 The Social Secretary thanked Mr and Mrs Preshous for a very informative presentation and all agreed that time had run out all too quickly .
28 Maybe being a Virgo is more than just your star sign and that explains all this maidenly modesty . ’
29 The movement cost less than 10 per cent of the price quoted by the British firm and this included all import duties and delivery charges , and VAT .
30 The Easter egg , overcome by heat , too much food , and an excess of wine , had to go and stand outside the door for a little fresh air , but came back full of verve and ready to tackle some of Willi 's bonbons that were scattered about the room in dishes in case anyone felt the need of more to eat .
  Next page