Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , given that an average presentation may require 20 to 30 of these , that represents a substantial investment . |
| 2 | That represents a great advance and we believe that , in the long term , something valuable will come of that . |
| 3 | I use the phrase ‘ She did not say ‘ Yes ’ she did not say ‘ No ’ and that represents a hazardous situation . |
| 4 | Of those just below forty thousand were solved … that represents a clear-up rate of roughly twenty percent … and that 's ten percent below the national average . |
| 5 | In official games , Platt has been on the mark twice in 13 appearances for the Italian giants and that represents a dramatic decline in his career ratio . |
| 6 | All that represents an impressive reversal . |
| 7 | Has that formed a satisfactory basis for planning ? |
| 8 | That displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority . |
| 9 | He had arranged for the ‘ leaking ’ of a letter he had circulated to all the delegates due to attend the presidential election in Paris on October 9 . |
| 10 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 11 | That made a pleasant change . |
| 12 | He could see in her face that he 'd surprised her , but that made no damned difference to Gary at all . |
| 13 | That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world . |
| 14 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 15 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 16 | If I was to tell you that given a perfect world that has the highest earning potential of all our companies |
| 17 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 18 | But our experience has shown that given a modest toolkit and a few carving gouges , persistence and enthusiasm for the project , almost anyone can achieve a highly satisfactory result . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The purchaser may consider that given the financial standing of the vendor there would be little prospect of recovery from the vendor for undisclosed liabilities of the company even if the purchaser were to succeed with a warranty claim against the vendor . |
| 20 | We therefore argued that given the radical nature of women acting as independent agents , action which still flies in the face of dominant ideologies and which challenges the nature of the family , it is astonishing how much progress women have made in this period . |
| 21 | He said that given the expressed interest of all political parties in attracting more women candidates , the research might also inform party policy and practice in this area . |
| 22 | If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma . |
| 23 | The so-called roads , three in number , are scars visible around the valley , each maintaining a level contour and therefore obviously formed by water . |
| 24 | Youngsters from 14–17 got an exclusive insight into the repertoire of a military band as players demonstrated everything from trumpet fanfares to dance music . |
| 25 | Figure 1.1 represents the civil court structure and Figure 1.2 represents the criminal court structure . |
| 26 | If you drive along the A338 at night and come to the hamlet of Shefford Woodlands , look for a wide track that once was a Roman road , that crosses the main road at right angles , near the picturesquely thatched pub , the Pheasant . |
| 27 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ That produces an average guideline increase of £2.08 a week , compared with £1.95 last year . |
| 29 | Is it possible to arrange a different time for the accounts to be returned ? |
| 30 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |