Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nev 's ten years experience of using TOP to help turn Delmarva into the best in the business was fascinating . |
| 2 | At last it is becoming possible to include production quality scanned images in desktop publishing . |
| 3 | One of the major distinctions between the different approaches to language description already discussed concerns the extent to which it is deemed appropriate to regard language behaviour as being a reflection of an underlying knowledge base . |
| 4 | In the late 1960s it was considered impossible to generate computer imagery at a high enough resolution to project onto a Cinerama screen — the electronic equivalent of ‘ grain' would have been unacceptably coarse and spotty . |
| 5 | While Dennis was well on the bridle , she was having to work hard to keep Billy Liar up to the pace . |
| 6 | Van Basten , a hero of the last two triumphs is returning to full fitness and looks likely to replace £10m understudy Papin . |
| 7 | The master of the college , Professor Morris , had issued a tetchy statement to the effect that , while it had been considered advisable to seek police assistance , there was at present no cause for alarm . |
| 8 | Damien Barton will be on the ‘ 40 ’ with Dermot Heaney on his right while the full forward line looks certain to comprise Joe Brolly , Seamus Downey and Enda Gormley . |
| 9 | That number is considered necessary to reduce traffic speed to 20mph . |
| 10 | Cheques should be made payable to NKRF/ Kidney Foundation . |
| 11 | Computer generated slides are made in-house to support staff training and client presentations . |
| 12 | However , there is something rather disturbing about the thought of having your pet stuck with needles , let alone seeing smoke rise from him as well . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what additional resources will be made available to improve health care for vulnerable groups in Iraq . |
| 14 | A layer 2 inches ( 5 cm ) thick suppresses weed growth , reduces moisture evaporation , is easily scratched open to help air penetration , and as it decomposes is pulled down into the soil by worms . |
| 15 | Much progress has been made countrywide to reduce sulphur dioxide levels , which have fallen by nearly half since 1970 . |
| 16 | Judge likely to cut Blandford jail term |
| 17 | Although the recent sterling value reductions look set to boost UK grain exports to make sales into intervention less attractive , many UK farmers felt lower moisture level standards on the Continent gave their competitors an unfair ‘ floor ’ to their grain market . |
| 18 | Recently it has become possible to record band intensity profiles with a range of excitation energies between 20 eV and 100 eV using synchrotron radiation ; these profiles show that the relationship between ionization energy and band intensity is not a simple one . |
| 19 | CABLE & WIRELESS LINKS ITS DATA NETWORKS TO FORM GLOBAL MANAGED DATA SERVICE |
| 20 | It comes with a Sybase SQL Server interface allowing full read/write client/server access to Sybase from AIX , OpenVMS , DOS and OS/2 clients . |
| 21 | Martin lives in Cumbernauld and to keep fit does weight training four times a week . |
| 22 | Severe erosive oesophagitis may be a cause of iron deficiency anaemia but hiatus hernia alone seems unlikely to cause iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 23 | It had been found difficult to control money supply and to keep it within target ranges . |
| 24 | At the same time it became increasingly apparent that research using instruments like the PARI was not producing clear-cut relationships : on the basis of attitudinal measures alone it has proved difficult to predict child personality . |
| 25 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 26 | When the UKCC announced its proposals for community nursing , Professional Nurse congratulated Council on its approach , which looked set to unite community nursing and pave the way for an improved service for patients , and also for giving nurses the opportunity to comment on the proposals in true democratic fashion . |
| 27 | Continue westwards to the village of Liverton following the B1366 south for ¼ mile when you branch off on a track on the right then go left to pass Lane Head Farm and Stubdale Farm . |
| 28 | Joe , like most people , felt happy to see Michael grin . |
| 29 | As Hitchcock and Mitchell put it : ‘ The principle that pedestrian paths should be straight , level , smooth and free from obstruction is easily stated , as is the one that mechanical vehicles can more easily travel further or change level to achieve vehicle/pedestrian segregation . |
| 30 | As it was , the Treasury set rates lower than Beveridge thought necessary to solve family poverty . |