Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each agreed to provide practical assistance to the other in times of difficulty . |
| 2 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 3 | The particularly complicated editorial and keying work on volume 8 of the Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925 has made substantial progress this year ; the catalogue description is finished and the disc has been sent to HMSO , while work on the index is at an advanced stage . |
| 4 | The Yugoslav government has clearly been right to try to switch inter-regional aid from a grant ( or ‘ loan ’ ) basis to a direct investment basis . |
| 5 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 6 | That has provoked more paperwork , or at least strongly supportive letters to him from complete strangers in higher education , schools and the health service . |
| 7 | Mrs. Brooks continued : ‘ Perhaps it is the re-routeing of the old A31 that has left some confusion as to the designation of this stretch of London Road . |
| 8 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 9 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 10 | Will he agree that inward investment is due to the activities of the Welsh Development Agency , some of the lowest wages in Britain and high levels of skills , and that it is the quality of the Welsh work force as much as anything else that has brought inward investment into Wales ? |
| 11 | Process technician : ‘ I have learned three new skills and that has meant more money . |
| 12 | But all that has changed this year . |
| 13 | If they 're performing below standard , we 've got a gap performance gap , that needs training good identification of training , but identifying exactly where they are performing and how . |
| 14 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 15 | Those in the higher socio-economic groups and consumers over 45 years old tend to have higher net savings relative to their outstanding debt . |
| 16 | On the subject of batsmen and short-pitched bowling ; none apparently has been game enough to demand a fuller length , especially as this involves addressing such request to the likes of Denzil , Balfour or Elconn . |
| 17 | This involves recording one line of music ( the ‘ backing ’ or ‘ rhythm ’ track ) , which is then played back to the musician while a second line is added . |
| 18 | This involves selling more government securities and thereby reducing banks ' reserves when their customers pay for them from their bank accounts . |
| 19 | This involves keeping one concession in reserve to use as the final push towards agreement : ‘ If you are willing to place an order now , I 'm willing to offer an extra 2½ per cent discount . ’ |
| 20 | This involves giving legal advice to ministers and implementing government decisions , as well as prosecuting those who contravene regulations . |
| 21 | The patients also tended to have lower median proximal oesophageal amplitudes than controls but this failed to reach statistical significance ( 36 v 42 mm Hg ; p=0.1 ) . |
| 22 | When this failed to contain local spending sufficiently , volume targets were introduced together with penalties in the form of loss of central government grant if local authorities exceeded their targets . |
| 23 | However , this failed to secure unequivocal backing when it was presented to a joint session of the Presidential and Federation Councils on Aug. 30-31 . |
| 24 | This avoided putting full page ads in Melody Maker , NME and Sounds , and hoping somebody would read them . |
| 25 | This has created more food for everybody and , therefore , created more food that is available to feed animals . |
| 26 | This has kept mass tourism at bay . |
| 27 | This has given large capital gains to many people , but also a misleading picture about the ‘ ease of making money ’ . |
| 28 | This has given fresh impetus to European Community moves to base a levy on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 29 | This has aroused considerable interest in recent years . |
| 30 | This has generated forceful opposition . |