Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return , the Soviet Union pledges its support for the sanctity of Iraq 's own borders , promises to veto any attempt to impose penalties on Iraq , including any trial of Mr Hussein himself , and commits itself to helping to arrange a subsequent international discussion of regional issues . |
| 2 | This project involves building a new econometric macro-model of the UK economy that will incorporate this new theory if it proves consistent with UK evidence . |
| 3 | The plan involves building an enormous tapering chimney , up to 3,000 feet high and 1,000 feet across the base . |
| 4 | Slides were developed using a Fast Red TR substrate ( Sigma ) and viewed under fluorescence conditions as described previously . |
| 5 | From the Palace of Holyroodhouse , a very special order has been received to weave a spectacular new carpet for the historic Throne Room within the Palace itself . |
| 6 | Amplitude histograms were routinely binned finely ( 5μV ) and smoothed using a moving gaussian filter or by low-pass filtering in the Fourier domain . |
| 7 | In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation . |
| 8 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 9 | Thriving under the feet of elephants Quentin Cowdry goes to see a giant-slaying small firm which is |
| 10 | There was no reason to suppose that in proceedings under Order 5 , rule 5 , it was intended to enable a named representative defendant to claim against a member of the represented class without complying with the requirements of the county court rules . |
| 11 | Families in this group tend to acquire a good many of the major appliances , to centre their social life in the kitchen , to be relatively unconcerned with adding taste in furnishings to comfort . |
| 12 | The ministers agreed to implement a common effective preferential tariff ( CEPT ) mechanism on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 13 | Many cements can be clearly recognized using a combined transmitted-reflected light petrological microscope . |
| 14 | SKI resort bosses failed to alert a special medical team about the avalanche which killed seven people until 90 minutes afterwards , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | SKI resort bosses failed to alert a special medical team about the avalanche which killed seven people until 90 minutes afterwards , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 16 | Our government does not want to obtain a total military victory . " |
| 17 | Now two High Court judges have refused to be cowed by the high-handed attitude and pressures of a Government which sought to impose a devastating pit-closure programme without following the proper legal procedures . |
| 18 | Only in the latter days of the town 's life as a centre of county magnificence were any real attempts made to establish an overall urban form and both resulted in failure , at least as financial ventures . |
| 19 | Some important issues were explored , from race relations and pre-school policy to issues of population change and the family , and the CPRS sought to establish a formal regular examination by Cabinet of social policy issues . |
| 20 | Within four minutes Simmons had taken his tally to five and an own goal by Smott had given Alborne an insurmountable 8–0 lead . |
| 21 | men tend to come a wee bitty more expensive |
| 22 | Indeed , as these stents are not removable and because we are treating patients with benign disease , we did not want to compromise a potential surgical biliary diversion . |
| 23 | Does research provide a constant curricular stimulus , or does it tend to reinforce authority and hierarchy ? |
| 24 | It is now all too clear that despite US occupation of Southern Korea the Russians have intended to impose a united front policy throughout the country … |
| 25 | The action demonstrated the belief that Korea was ready for independence and was intended to forestall a lengthy American occupation or the Americans advancing Koreans of their own choice . |
| 26 | Rubbing away a thin film of ice , he peered through a small frame of snow — and saw Tom Hanks entering the farmyard , plodding doggedly behind a horse that was struggling to pull an improvised wooden snow-plough ! |
| 27 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 28 | The Physical Education Department and Edinburgh University Sports Union combine to provide a comprehensive physical recreation service . |
| 29 | In moves explicitly intended to encourage a French diplomatic posture more flexible than that of the USA and the UK , the Iraqi authorities ( i ) released nine French hostages on Oct. 1 ; and ( ii ) approved on Oct. 23 the release of all remaining French nationals , 267 of whom arrived in Paris early on Oct. 30 . |
| 30 | Hunt et al noted only three malignancies in a total of 28 strictures in their 24 patients with ulcerative colitis , while deDombal et al failed to find a single malignant stricture in their report . |