Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1972 presidential elections he was vice-presidential candidate for the coalition headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte , who was widely held to have won although a military candidate was declared the winner . |
| 2 | Altogether more of a Second Empire kind of guzzle than a Roman treat , that invention . |
| 3 | Quite simply , this guarantees you money which you will certainly need if a key person dies , or is too ill or too injured to work . |
| 4 | This door looks like a double decker bus hit it . |
| 5 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 6 | This is not much of a problem , as colours can be varied if a simple identification is sought . |
| 7 | Indeed they may well risk their pale-faced prodigy again in the match against Egypt today — even though this must be won if a vital quarter-final seeding place is to be secured . |
| 8 | They believe that the student first needs to acquire a perception of the analogies involved in the patterns of the language , and to be drilled until a considerable body of material has been learned , since analysis of the language is considered by them to be an advanced study . |
| 9 | Do you know if a dedicated driver is available ? |
| 10 | Whenever possible , information will be collected from more than one source , eg from both town council and church accounts , to try to discover if a single labour market operated in a town . |
| 11 | To discover if an upward shift of the proliferative compartment actually takes place , we examined the distribution of labelled cells and the labelling index of the background colonic mucosa in FAP and SCRC cases by ex vivo autoradiography . |
| 12 | That is about what would be expected if a short burst of neutrons with a range of energies had to travel a long distance ; the slower , less-energetic neutrons would lag behind those with more energy . |
| 13 | Her face , too , bleary , smoky , with deep channels of tears through the make-up , looked like an old woman 's — some monster from Restoration comedy , an old , peeling wall . |
| 14 | A joint tenancy is severed if a joint tenant disposes of his interest inter vivos . |
| 15 | LIVERPOOL and Manchester airports could be amalgamated if a high speed rail link was built between them , a planning chief has suggested . |
| 16 | LIVERPOOL and Manchester airports could be amalgamated if a high speed rail link is built between the two , a planning chief has suggested . |
| 17 | The pilot study , which resembled the main survey as closely as possible , revealed that the questions , covering letter and coding frame presented no difficulties , but that several nurses did not own rulers for measuring ulcers ; and that inducements to respond , effective reminders , and problems of distribution had to be considered if a high response rate was to be achieved . |
| 18 | No DC Details data has been deleted because a fatal error has occurred in a previous area of LIFESPAN RDBI . |
| 19 | No module details data has been deleted because a fatal error has occurred in a previous area of LIFESPAN RDBI . |
| 20 | No process model data has been deleted because a fatal error has occurred in a previous area of LIFESPAN RDBI . |
| 21 | No user details data has been deleted because a fatal error has occurred in a previous area of LIFESPAN RDBI . |
| 22 | At the time of the greenbelt enquiry , an extension beyond six miles of the greenbelt could not be considered because a general revision of the county structure plan was not envisaged . |
| 23 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 24 | The area was immediately evacuated whilst a special team in breathing apparatus was sent in to plug the hole . |
| 25 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 26 | The option is useful if a user , either teacher or pupil wishes to know whether a particular title is on loan . |
| 27 | In actual fact , if a court finds it hard to know whether a particular situation comes within the words of a statute or not , the probability is the situation was not foreseen by the legislature , so that the Lords and Members of Parliament would be just as puzzled by it as the judges are . |
| 28 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 29 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 30 | This indication can then be compared with a national base of 100 to indicate whether a particular area is better or worse than average for finding buyers or owners of any product which is already specifically measured in existing national market research surveys . |