Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 2 | According to the Confession , God in his free and eternal counsel has predestined some men to everlasting life , some to everlasting death . |
| 3 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 4 | It is a cause for chagrin , not satisfaction , that Serafin has rejected all his advice . |
| 5 | Professor Wolfgang Wild , president of Munich 's Technical University has provided some pointers . |
| 6 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 7 | Because they are highly-trained professionals , prompt action has saved many innocent lives and accounted for terrorist gunmen engaged in the act of indiscriminate killing . |
| 8 | Now , extensive research has proved that quite wrong . |
| 9 | That investment has created many well-paid and well-founded jobs for our people . |
| 10 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 11 | He propped his right elbow on the table and rested his chin on the cupped hand — the pose of a football manager pondering how to redeploy his players when neither side has shown any likelihood of scoring a goal . |
| 12 | This case has become all things to all men . |
| 13 | Getting there swifter and more often British Rail has announced more services linking Cleveland with other parts of the region , and promised faster journeys from Darlington to Middlesbrough and Saltburn . |
| 14 | British Rail has allowed several mainline stations to be used as venues for the event , to raise money for the charity Buskaid , which aims to take classical music to the children of South African townships . |
| 15 | I am sure that British Rail has considered all the options and it may have asked the consultants to study alternatives . |
| 16 | I would like to thank the Curwen Archives Trust whose generous grant has made this publication possible . |
| 17 | Whannel believes that the main reason why this terminology has taken such an enduring grip is that it is being used to serve the commercial interests of Football League and club officials as part of a hidden agenda to attract a new type of football audience ( the ‘ family audience ’ ) and thereby solve the game 's economic crisis . |
| 18 | This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government . |
| 19 | But even in murder cases it is now far more favourable to the accused for him to plead instead diminished responsibility , and for most practical purposes this defence has replaced that of insanity in criminal law . |
| 20 | No randomised trial has shown such effectiveness . |
| 21 | This study has shown that luminal bile directly inhibited terminal ileal motility . |
| 22 | If a cohort of patients with diabetes shows poor control this study has found little evidence that it should be attributed to factors specific to non-diabetic patients . |
| 23 | This study has identified some areas in which adults with cystic fibrosis may need extra help , notably in obtaining school leaving qualifications and for young men to achieve independence . |
| 24 | The nature of the breakage is largely controlled by the structural properties of the bones concerned , and it is not considered that this experiment has provided any new information on breakage ( see , for instance , Korth 1979 ) . |
| 25 | British research has made much use of the General Health Questionnaire ( GQH ) , which despite its name actually seems to index minor psychiatric morbidity ( ill-health ) . |
| 26 | It 's because of this DOUBLE TAX-FREE BENEFIT that the Inland Revenue has limited such investments to one per adult . |
| 27 | The Inland Revenue has published this extra-statutory concession to enable incapacitated persons in Scotland to hold Tessas . |
| 28 | The latter suffers from unstable mucosal contact , although the use of improved fixation techniques such as magnetic stabilisation has reduced this problem . |
| 29 | As it is this confusion has seen many of Mann 's photographs censored across America . |
| 30 | This chapter has explored some of the issues and challenges involved in helping such process of change to take place . |