Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come .
2 Under section 40(4) ( a ) a review can be postponed if it is net practicable to carry out a review at that time .
3 Without this redshift/distance relation , it would be possible to estimate reliably the distance to most of the galaxies we observe .
4 Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) .
5 There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service …
6 Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners .
7 As the National Curriculum is implemented , it will be possible to carry out a check of the curriculum of each school .
8 It is also possible to carry out a search by highlighting a word in your original work , cut and paste sections of the Thesaurus into your document and load the program into a DOS Window in 386 enhanced mode for use with Windows .
9 It may be impractical to carry out a stocktake or inspect the plant and machinery ( particularly if the Vendor wishes to keep the transaction confidential from the work force ) .
10 That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own
11 The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones .
12 In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art .
13 On a clear day it is possible to see both the English and Bristol Channels ; the distant Quantocks and Mendips frame the Somerset Levels , with Glastonbury Tor rising mysteriously out of the mists .
14 Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved .
15 We were due to try out the show at Farnham , a 400-seater theatre , less than an hour from London .
16 When the index is computerised it will be practicable to increase greatly the number of names on the index .
17 That illustrates nicely the interaction of practical and psychological guidance which characterises the best of apprenticeships .
18 That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more .
19 Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained .
20 Therefore the area of the rectangle shown at the bottom of the last page is equal to base x height and the area of the triangle is unc We can now see that to work out the area of any triangle we simply need to remember are unc
21 The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links .
22 Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’
23 A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions .
24 As Pahl ( 1988 ) points out , it is not possible to accept uncritically the idea that an underclass has emerged in British society .
25 Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life .
26 From this it is possible to work out a recipe for some common ailments .
27 It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile .
28 It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile .
29 Knowing the number of d electrons , it is possible to work out the number of free ion terms by analyzing the microstates ; this process is described in Ref. [ 20 ] .
30 Table 6.2 illustrates how the approach may be applied in a back to nursing workshop .
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