Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount concerned — about £30,000 — is insignificant given that such a tie would bring in £1 million in gate receipts and television revenue . |
| 2 | Given that such a view is unlikely to be acceptable to the scientific community , it is suggested that the funding authorities should give consideration to the fundamental purposes underlying Ph D research , and to output measures of the value of such work to the community . |
| 3 | Given that such a view is unlikely to be acceptable to the scientific community , it is suggested that the funding authorities should give consideration to the fundamental purposes underlying Ph D research , and to output measures of the value of such work to the community . |
| 4 | And that statement , given that such a book can never be complete nor , when based as it is on Burke 's volume , without error , is true . |
| 5 | Given that such a coalition would enjoy the support of more than 50% of electors and that the turnover of seats under PR is small ( Professor Finer estimated that a swing of 1% would result in the loss of only six seats ) , it would most likely remain in office for the foreseeable future and hence be in a position to ensure a degree of policy continuity . |
| 6 | Given that such an emergency admission should be avoided at all costs , how can a social worker plan an admission so that it offers the person concerned a positive choice ? |
| 7 | Given that such an employee would face dismissal if that were proven , a company should face no less than severe curtailment of its operations across the North sea . |
| 8 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 9 | Despite Gorbachev 's assurances to two Armenian emissaries that a ‘ just solution ’ would be found , the Supreme Soviet Presidium warned on 23 March that ‘ self-proclaimed groups ’ ( a reference to the Karabakh Committee , a group of Armenian activists whose activities were made illegal ) could not be allowed to call for the redrawing of state and administrative boundaries , and Pravda made clear that the transfer of . |
| 10 | The psychoanalysis can be used to a limited extent , despite more collective , historical roles er , within disagreed over conflicts in people , or perhaps you say that all the time . |
| 11 | I found this such a turn-on that I nearly came then and there . |
| 12 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 13 | ‘ Gettin' saucier all the time , you are , Nancy , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 14 | ‘ Except perhaps for obstructing the police by not revealing all this a lot earlier . ’ |
| 15 | " He looks tired all the time now . |
| 16 | It looks better all the time do n't it ? |
| 17 | I was left on a piece of ice that was becoming smaller all the time . |
| 18 | We can have a coffee , talk , maybe get to know one another a bit better . |
| 19 | Be careful not to qualify praise ( do not , for instance , say , ‘ Thank you for taking out the rubbish — why do n't you do that all the time ? ’ ) . |
| 20 | But you ca n't do that all the time . |
| 21 | Do you do that all the time ? |
| 22 | which added another half an hour to the journey |
| 23 | Oh , you should n't do this all the time . |
| 24 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it would be physically impossible to drink all that every night on a tour . |
| 26 | More places are being made available all the time : last night , a 25-bed hostel was opened in the constituency of the hon. Member for Tooting , to be run by the English Churches Housing Group . |
| 27 | Criticised for looking miserable all the time , but others say his seriousness is a pretence and really he 's just taking the mickey out of himself . |
| 28 | The financial motive was looking stronger all the time . |
| 29 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 30 | However , I do n't think I would stop playing my Gibson ES175 to play that all the time . |