Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might have been a drawback of such accounts but for the fact that linguistic accounts understood in accord with the current consensus among analytic philosophers either are not possible or lack any philosophical interest . |
| 2 | At that time , 300 million people were either unemployed or performed such unproductive work that they could not support themselves and their families . |
| 3 | Dominant social attitudes towards retirement place the personal needs of older people in a subservient position to the perceived social and economic interests of the wider society , and it is this that causes many older people problems , bringing into question their personal value and worth , and placing them under considerable social stress . |
| 4 | In ten minutes , a tree hundreds of years old that supports many other plant and animal lives can be destroyed with the snick of a chainsaw . |
| 5 | So far as the desktop publisher is concerned there are many packages that can share data without any form of translation being required as well as a few that need some gentle tweaking . |
| 6 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 7 | Please could you let me have a separate estimate for straightening this and doing any necessary repairs to the seat . |
| 8 | Since we the taxpayers are having to pay for the programme , can the Minister at least listen to the taxpayers on this and spend these huge sums of money on all our children and not just a few ? |
| 9 | I tried to shake my head clear and take some more deep breaths . |
| 10 | Many run-of-the-mill MPs turn up , some in the hope of speaking in the debates , others , like Grunte , to feed the faces of the faithful and to press all available flesh . |
| 11 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 12 | And instead of having a few puffs and , and saving and throwing two dog ends away you did n't see that , they 'd just break it in half and have half each . |
| 13 | It was probably set up around 1150 and given this huge market place along an existing road running north to south But the main through road from Oxford to Aylesbury ran from east to west a little to the north of the new town . |
| 14 | Just call 0839 66 61 67 and enter this wonderful competition today ! |
| 15 | Life in a cenaculum was overcrowded and lacked many basic amenities , hence the popularity of the bathing establishments . |
| 16 | The creations are totally different and have some dissimilar effects but both creations have not been controlled by their creators so they have had disastrous consequences . |
| 17 | Obviously members of the same species can live in harmony together and this is made possible by the chemical messages which pass between coelenterates to allow individual coral polyps in a colony to recognise and avoid stinging one another and to signal that other neighbouring colonies of the same species are not a threat . |
| 18 | The present Lady Hamilton was English and had some private money . |
| 19 | On the far side of the tunnel , near the side of the line towards Bath , there was an immensely deep rock quarry , disused and deserted but containing some old equipment , rusting away at the bottom . |
| 20 | Disused mineral workings are not just the adventure playground of the young and old but provide many recreational needs . |
| 21 | That was real exciting , too , but I do n't think anything was as exciting as making that first record . ’ |
| 22 | Thus , whilst women who smoke may know that smoking could damage their health , there is no evidence that they experienced smoking as having any immediate impact on their self-perceived strength and fitness . |
| 23 | Strict conventionalism would be a very restrictive conception of law for us because the explicit extensions of our putative conventions Of legislation and precedent contain very little that has much practical importance in actual litigation . |
| 24 | With a postal questionnaire , it is important also to check that the layout is neither confusing nor encouraging any particular response . |
| 25 | I mean th there w there was always some kind of trigger that that that broke that initial feeling of isolation and and suspicion . |
| 26 | The normal expectation of the officer in very wet weather , then , is that all watercourses will be swollen , turbid , and discoloured ; any further pollution is less likely to be noticeable or do any particular damage . |
| 27 | The popular poet 's imagination , skill and learning could concoct , at that instant , a sustained story with a cast of hundreds that linked all those wars , love affairs , catastrophes , comedies and come-what-may into a coherent whole . |
| 28 | Unless there are an appreciable number of genuine deaths from asthma in people aged over 65 this supports my belief that the annual number of deaths due to asthma nationally is nearer 500 than 2000 ( even allowing for some genuine deaths from asthma not certified as such and given that some areas such as West Cumbria and perhaps Hertfordshire seem to have a lower mortality than Norwich ) . |
| 29 | Stephen Vaughan began to fish for loans on the Antwerp market in 1544 and negotiated some large borrowings . |
| 30 | Area manager , Terry Gee recognised and awarded some exceptional achievements including ; Best all round sales performer — Morag Weir , East Kilbride , followed by Susan Rogers from Birmingham and Gillian Hilton from Preston . |