Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Porsche can show so little imagination when launching a new model is a corollary both of the popularity of the old 911 ( the only model unaffected by Porsche 's recent slump in sales worldwide ) , and of the conservatism at the top of the Stuttgart company . |
| 2 | The figures suggest a gentle recovery is continuing , but at a rate that 's unlikely to create many jobs . |
| 3 | but everything else we can sort , getting there , it 's not as if we 're gon na need a bloody fire is it Jane ? |
| 4 | Becoming a competent swimmer is obviously sensible and for those who sail a knowledge of seamanship is essential . |
| 5 | If this arrangement is to be varied a special condition is required . |
| 6 | Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening . |
| 7 | Keeping a steady blaze is akin to the way in which women generate and maintain emotional energy . |
| 8 | We discovered last month that one of the major challenges of keeping a marine aquarium is choosing fish which will live in harmony together and , where applicable those which will be compatible with the invertebrates sharing their aquarium . |
| 9 | Granted the potential meaning of to postulated above , these two general categories provide a clear illustration of Guillaume 's principle ( 1984 : 134 – 5 ) that actualizing a potential meaning is an operation of thought which takes place while the speaker is mentally constructing a sentence and which he intercepts when he has found the representation which he feels as adequate for what he wants to express . |
| 10 | The increasing reliance on imaging suggests that the technique of palpating a pyloric tumour is a declining art . |
| 11 | Similarly , where a product which contains a secret mechanism is supplied subject to a condition that the recipient should not examine the mechanism , this will establish confidence in the mechanism ( see Paul ( KS ) ( Printing Instruments ) Ltd v Southern Instruments ( Communications ) Ltd and EP Ellis ( Male ) ( Trading as Ellis and Sons ) [ 1964 ] RPC 118 ) . |
| 12 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 13 | The quickest way to absorb a distant culture is to bury yourself in a novel . |
| 14 | Among the 35 to 44 age group , 27 per cent say a congenial publican is important , while among the 55-pluses , 35 per cent say the same . |
| 15 | But workers against racism say a former prison is the wrong place . |
| 16 | FIREMEN say a 25-year-old man is lucky to be alive today after escaping an arson attack in Linwood Road , Tranmere . |
| 17 | To impose a common curriculum is one thing ; to enforce the testing of children in this curriculum at specific ages is quite another . |
| 18 | A further indication of the ability of the corpus to provide a reliable model is gained from observing how the number of transitions found varies with increasing corpus size . |
| 19 | The best way to find a legal adviser is to ask musicians in other bands , write to the Law society or , if you are a member of the Musicians ' Union , request a list of music business lawyers from the union 's national office . |
| 20 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 21 | Determination of total organic content by ashing may be useful to identify problem areas but the best way to obtain a representative sample is by overburden drilling to bedrock . |
| 22 | The number of sessions necessary to obtain a complete fragmentation is significantly dependent of the number and size of the stones and the presence of calcifications ( p<0.001 versus radiolucent stones ) ( Table III ) . |
| 23 | All that the plaintiff need do to obtain a restraining order is to show a prima facie , arguable case , and that the public interest in protecting the confidence is not , on the " balance of convenience " test , outweighed by some urgent public interest in publication . |
| 24 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 25 | Now , as far as I know , mechanical missionaries from the copper-capped brigade made various sorties on the L.M. main line over the years , but only one expedition by what might be considered a top-link engine is on record having penetrated further than Mold Junction . |
| 26 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
| 27 | But cutting this benefit will throw up hard cases , what worries a Tory elder is the way younger MP s approach the decision whether to support the Government on a pick and mix principle , he says , they no longer see the need to take the rough with smooth , to vote for the things they detest as well as those they like . |
| 28 | During the weeding process a second function is also carried out , in which the librarian notes the patterns of use and records these for future consultation at the ordering stage . |
| 29 | To say , however , that every society has a political system is not to assert that every society has a ‘ state ’ , in the sense of possessing a quite distinct and separate political apparatus . |
| 30 | One such variable that has a wide distribution is the lateral consonant ( L ) . |