Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socially the target of Scottish Homes to diversify the rented sector and encourage community regeneration has also been achieved . |
| 2 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 3 | She paused , feeling a shiver work its way down her spine as she met the black eyes that were regarding her so closely now . |
| 4 | I recently met the Japanese Keidanren when they visited this country , and I reassured them that the Government continue to welcome and support Japanese investment in this country . |
| 5 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 6 | In April 1805 at Low Wood Green met the celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Young , who entertained him highly with their singing . |
| 7 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 8 | I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village . |
| 9 | He argues that to focus analysis in this way neglects the disciplinary forms and technologies through which power operates . |
| 10 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 11 | A choreographer who neglects the old rules and any item pertinent to the unfolding of the plot , theme or music is demanding a great deal from an audience . |
| 12 | First , such a model assumes a static population-that is , it neglects the obvious fact that new generations of school ( the age group where use tends to begin ) are constantly emerging . |
| 13 | Braitenberg 's scheme is obviously a great over-simplification which neglects the special connections that exist between regions with related functions , but it may nonetheless point to the overall pattern through which the neocortex carries on its extensive conversations with itself . |
| 14 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 15 | For all his efforts , he lacked the final touch and in the 65th minute he glanced his header wide from Holloway 's cross . |
| 16 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 17 | Three weeks later , at a time when the imperialist war thesis was very much in the ascendency , he was more specific : The French communists lacked the necessary cynicism and the capacity for political deception that would have been required to gain the maximum benefit from a dangerous diplomatic operation . |
| 18 | Both men 's views in the inter-war period were highly subjective and embittered ; both lacked the necessary detachment and sense of objective hindsight to bring the experience into proper perspective . |
| 19 | However , these were generally riskier and since many savers lacked the necessary information and confidence to invest overseas , it seemed a natural role for investment trusts that they should provide an indirect route into overseas markets for small investors who would benefit from the trust 's professional management . |
| 20 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 21 | The issue lacked the clear-headed analysis that I have come to expect from NI . |
| 22 | Might proliferation occur because the cells in question lacked the essential material and got out of control ? |
| 23 | Success was not automatic , since the country lacked the economic base and domestic resources of France and West Germany , let alone the USA or Japan . |
| 24 | In fairness to Keith , he realised very quickly that he lacked the requisite qualities and threw in the towel . |
| 25 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 26 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 27 | This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die . |
| 28 | Does a government of the left , for example , produce policy outcomes which favour the working class and organized labour , and shift power from the private to the state sector ? |
| 29 | Catholic insecurity merged with the understandable fears of the wealthy , especially in the countryside , that the Republic would threaten landed property and in general favour the working class and peasantry over the employers and large landowners . |
| 30 | To appreciate why certain questions are currently preoccupying psychobiologists , why they favour the particular answers that are in vogue , and why they seem to have neglected , until recently , many of the issues that non-psychologists would consider central to understanding the biological bases of behaviour , a short lesson on the history of psychobiology is relevant . |