Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only those ideas which can be traced through many different formulations on depression in the seventy years since Freud 's book was published are touched upon here . |
| 2 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 3 | Apart from the lugger and the recovery of the bomber , we have to wait for three other things . |
| 4 | The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months . |
| 5 | Some 80 local table tennis players will be competing for 13 main titles . |
| 6 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 7 | Marx believed that Western society had developed through four main epochs : primitive communism , ancient society , feudal society and capitalist society . |
| 8 | Racism , classism , disablism and sexism have developed through similar social processes . |
| 9 | As the BR main line to Birmingham is near Kidderminster Town Station , this was too stopped for some three hours , causing further major disruption . |
| 10 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 11 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
| 12 | But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’ |
| 13 | Where the ophthalmic optician subsequently prescribes special corrective appliances solely to correct vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned , and where normal corrective appliances ( ie those prescribed for any other purposes ) can not be used , during this interim period , a Head of Department will refund such costs up to a maximum of £50 . |
| 14 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 15 | In particular , though I noted that the farmers distinguished between different scientific sources , they credited scientists at the local Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood with more openness about the scientific uncertainties . |
| 16 | I have distinguished between three different versions of the reductivist argument . |
| 17 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 18 | Sidestepping the question of definition , they distinguish between four different uses of the term ‘ services ’ . |
| 19 | But even functional psychosis can vary in symptomatology and psychiatrists generally distinguish between two main forms . |
| 20 | Thus information processing models at their most simple distinguish between three distinct stages : registration , coding and retrieval . |
| 21 | Other sources distinguish between these two groups of factors , referring to natural processes as desertisation and to anthropogenically related ones as desertification . |
| 22 | We have been arguing the point with the inspector at claims branch for many many months and we just seem to go round in circles . |
| 23 | ‘ They look at each individual case , but it is certainly possible that Liverpool will be punished for three red cards . |
| 24 | Similar conflicts could arise between admissible ministerial statements on the effect of a provision and , say , a construction based on the punctuation of the provision , or on prior or subsequent legislative provisions . |
| 25 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 26 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 27 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 28 | beautiful , we used to go for some lovely walks did n't we ? |
| 29 | Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns . |
| 30 | One can sit leafing through glossy English magazines , reading in House and Garden about somebody 's ‘ elegantly understated ’ home in Kensington while passing within yards of a rather more understated Egyptian peasant 's home of mud-brick . |