Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could no doubt be taught to sew or clean things . |
| 2 | Abandoned air-raid shelters became improvised and treacherous playgrounds for the children of the blitz . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 5 | I would be fascinated to know if these yards of generally disagreeable reviews will in fact sell copies . |
| 6 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The previous discussion has emphasized that black workers were recruited for particular types of jobs in specific sectors of the British economy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whatever the nature of price adjustment costs , one important development in establishing the micro-foundations of Keynesian wage or price rigidity has emphasized that these costs need not be substantial to lead to rigidities which can have important macroeconomic consequences . |
| 11 | The security source added : ‘ Customs are checking to see if these men are in fact registered for VAT . ’ |
| 12 | They are killing things due to the fact that mankind is sinful and man 's want to kill and corrupt things . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal has intimated that such cases are appropriate cases for the grant of extensions of the time allowed for appealing ( Legal Aid Handbook , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | Now the price has fallen and future purchases by discount houses will be at the new , lower rate . |
| 15 | The Warmfield company has claimed that all procedures for dumping — which it claims will consist mainly of meat and fish and industrial waste — are safe , although it has refused to disclose full details . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Friends of the Earth , however , has claimed that these figures are artificially inflated as money spent on the cleaner gas programme needed to be spent anyway . |
| 18 | A solicitor has claimed that three men found not guilty of the manslaughter of twin girls should never have been put on trial . |
| 19 | A solicitor has claimed that three men found not guilty of the manslaughter of twin girls should never have been put on trial . |
| 20 | Popper has claimed that some versions at least of Marx 's theory of history , Freudian psychoanalysis and Adlerian psychology suffer from this fault . |
| 21 | It is appropriate to try to discover if such institutions were ever actually the way they had been previously presented by a scholarship interested ( even if it did not declare its interest ) in constructing its own version of the past to answer its own preoccupations . |
| 22 | And Bassett claimed : ‘ Brian 's union role is clearly a cross he has to bear because some managers simply do n't seem to want the PFA chairman on their books . |
| 23 | There are obvious limits to the extra work that families can be expected to absorb and these limits may already have been reached . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) has reported that more journalists were killed carrying out their professional duties in 1991 than in any other year since the formation of the committee ten years ago . |
| 26 | The Zimbabwean government has reported that several countries have offered to buy 25 tonnes of its ivory stocks , worth £9 million , in order to destroy them , in an effort to enforce the international ban on the trade in ivory . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The company , as a policy , will need to establish whether small tools and minor items of plant are charged to the project at cost and credited on their return to the plant department , or whether all items of plant , including small tools , are to be charged on a similar basis to that used by plant and tool hire companies . |
| 29 | The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds . |
| 30 | Dad wants to know if those scales have come . |