Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 2 | She could no doubt be taught to sew or clean things . |
| 3 | Abandoned air-raid shelters became improvised and treacherous playgrounds for the children of the blitz . |
| 4 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 5 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 6 | The previous discussion has emphasized that black workers were recruited for particular types of jobs in specific sectors of the British economy . |
| 7 | Recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science has emphasized that experimental results are rarely adequate for making a definitive choice between competing theories . |
| 8 | So if you want to see that old mother of yours it 'll have to be by road . ’ |
| 9 | They are killing things due to the fact that mankind is sinful and man 's want to kill and corrupt things . |
| 10 | He ( or she ) needs to realize that considerable analysis needs to be conducted in order to form sound judgements of cash flows and underlying uncertainties for large projects , and that too ready a move into discounted cash flow ( DCF ) calculations may give the impression of sophisticated analysis which disguises the inadequacy of the underlying assumptions . |
| 11 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 12 | Now the price has fallen and future purchases by discount houses will be at the new , lower rate . |
| 13 | David Ashworth , a former Unify divisional manager , has joined as general manager of UK operations and Steve Husk , a regional director at Oracle Corp , will be working as regional manager for European strategic accounts . |
| 14 | However , since maintenance schemes often involve dredging and considerable tree removal , their impact on river habitat makes nonsense of the long-cherished claim by some river engineers that river maintenance is too minor an affair to concern environmentalists . |
| 15 | Campbell quits FOOTBALL : Former Chelsea boss Bobby Campbell has resigned as personal assistant to chairman Ken Bates because he misses the day-to-day involvement with players . |
| 16 | Felicity Rubinstein has resigned as managing director of Macmillan London , and will leave the company at Easter . |
| 17 | A leading climatologist has claimed that global warming will increase the risk of structural damage to buildings and will need to be tackled with new building regulations . |
| 18 | Moscovici ( 1984 ) has claimed that social psychology should become ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( p. 984 ) . |
| 19 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire . |
| 20 | He has claimed that statutory controls would ‘ stifle new developments and new jobs in the Highlands and Islands and raise costs when we face tough competition from efficient producers in Europe and elsewhere ’ . |
| 21 | National Power has claimed that divulging information on the fuel that they plan to burn will give their competitors vital information about how their plants operate . |
| 22 | I just want to know if fat people were fatter then . |
| 23 | This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these . |
| 24 | Professor Mathias has stressed that rising output and improving productivity will lower the average costs of a commodity " only if the goods can be cleared to a widening market … |
| 25 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |
| 27 | Elbit Ltd has reported that net profit for the year to December 31 declined by 14.8% at $30.3m , on turnover that rose 18.1% to $483.3m . |
| 28 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has reported that net profit for the 12 months to March 31 rose 4.3% at the equivalent of $141.7m , on turnover that declined by 1.7% to $2,268.8m . |
| 29 | In Bavaria 's parliament , the CSU has enjoyed that German rarity , a clear majority , since 1966 . |
| 30 | Brazil , in its Proalcohol programme , extracts ethanol from crops and has designed and manufactured cars to run on the fuel ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |