Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normal values encourage some patients to opt for less drastic treatments . |
| 2 | The Labour proposals to extend urban boundaries to take in surrounding suburban and rural areas in a pattern of unitary authorities threatened the traditional Labour dominance in the major cities in the non-metropolitan areas . |
| 3 | Work done outside normal hours means extra costs . |
| 4 | In so far as they encourage greater police intervention on picket lines or at demonstrations , and enable them to impose their authority on many aspects of community life , the 1984 and 1986 Acts have profound implications for the possibility of disorder . |
| 5 | During the spring and summer of this year the Chairman and members of the committee have invited presentations from a wide range of suppliers of financial services products and it is hoped in due course to publish both recommendations as to the type of financial services products members of the Bar should consider taking up and details of advantageous group insurance schemes . |
| 6 | Mr Freeman last week told the committee of MPs considering the Railways Bill that they will not ask private operators to guarantee off-peak services in areas such as Strathclyde covered by passenger transport executives . |
| 7 | More stable groups have multiple goals and review and renew their goals , giving them greater permanency . |
| 8 | Similarly , professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers ' dependence upon them . |
| 9 | Finally , professional groups have distinct cultures , norms and values and these cultures may come into conflict . |
| 10 | The paper details SNP ideas for a recalled parliament involving 150 members sitting on a Friday to discuss issues previously agreed by consensus . |
| 11 | I think you ‘ ll agree that his right as to what he does with that money supersedes any thoughts I may have , in the final analysis . |
| 12 | From intensive trading arose changes in the life style , values and population structure of local communities , massive over-use of resources , and the need for new economic inputs to maintain northern communities at even a minimal standard of living . |
| 13 | The lower tiers have neat windows , but not one to each face of the octagon , while the upper tiers have windows in each face , beautiful windows with elegant marble columns . |
| 14 | Today the human species has the knowledge of past mistakes , and the analytical and technical skills to halt destructive trends and to provide an adequate diet for all using lands well suited for agriculture . |
| 15 | For the future , research needs to address the extent to which these dimensions of organization imperatives do form coherent patterns ; the extent to which the coherent patterns form national clusters ; and the extent to which they relate to more common criteria of organizational analysis such as the Aston measures . |
| 16 | Apparently there are no specific plans to recruit more scientists to do the job , according to a Pentagon official who oversees the defence department 's research grants to university scientists . |
| 17 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 18 | Anticipating land reform , poor peasants and agricultural labourers occupied large estates in a number of southern provinces ; several villagers , as in Yeste ( Albacete ) , perished in the attempt at the hands of the Civil Guard . |
| 19 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 20 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 21 | Low income equals low savings and investment , this results in a low economic growth and , because of rising population , per capita income remains low . |
| 22 | If she had been , she might have reflected that the Thames at low tide symbolises lost opportunities , the failures that are inseparable from other people 's successes , the blank misery that is too often the other face of the coin of commerce . |
| 23 | But the existence — and the prevalence — of this rich variety raises important questions about how children 's reading competence can become a match for the challenge it presents . |
| 24 | But these foreign debts were only intermittently repaid and , as a result , in the 1830s and 1840s Thornton headed the committee of Spanish bond-holders urging British governments to intervene on their behalf . |
| 25 | Two approaches were used for ordering single-copy hybridisation probes : one was based on the simulated annealing algorithm to order all probes , and another on inferring the minimum-spanning subset of the probes using a heuristic filtering procedure . |
| 26 | Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks . |
| 27 | Second-year birds have black wing-tips , but without white spots . |
| 28 | These differences between American and European views have ominous implications for deinstitutionalization since , as already pointed out , many chronic patients are poor . |
| 29 | It 's probably only that old quack Hardacre feeding him the wrong antibiotics — Agnes shared George 's view of Sir Frank ‘ — but if each course takes five days before they decide it is n't working , it can run on . |
| 30 | ‘ There are 20 kids to a session , with each course lasting four weeks . |