Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 2 | Cut carefully through the leaves at the top of the pineapple so that some remain attached to each half of the fruit . |
| 3 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 4 | Some appear to fade at 35 , some at 45 , some at 55 , while others are still highly motivated to achieve at 70 . |
| 5 | Moreover , some appear to consist of little more than the ‘ active constituents ’ of the dietary regimen we have already described — a regime whose effectiveness is not accepted by all research workers . |
| 6 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 7 | The reasons for this seem to fall into three categories : ignorance of what solicitors can do on the part of potential clients and a lack of preparedness in pursuing legal action , that is apathy ; the public image of lawyers ; and barriers against use , in particular cost and accessibility . |
| 8 | ‘ Some like to know for sure and some do n't . ’ |
| 9 | Members are entitled to three days free travel per year ( worth £15 ) and half fare travel at most other times . |
| 10 | Of this group 18% have confined themselves to one sexual partner ; 10% have had more than 20 ; half have had between 2 and 9 ; 7% pare unable to make a reliable estimate . |
| 11 | And a passion for ‘ more national art : all our Highlands and islands are teeming with histories and traditions , manners and customs , and scenes worthy of the life-labours of our most gifted sons , yet few care to venture into this field . ’ |
| 12 | Could Kuwaiti have existed without British protection ? |
| 13 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |
| 14 | Some have suffered from high inflation rates and political coups which have undermined the population 's confidence in domestic currencies and thereby encouraged investment in non-productive gold coins or jewellery . |
| 15 | Most reviews have identified administrative deficiencies — one scrutiny found it cost 90 to administer 100 of woodland grant — and some have led to major changes ( such as the establishment of a non-Defence central purchasing unit : see Government Purchasing : A Review of Government Contract and Procurement Procedures , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Some have run into considerable financial and political difficulty . |
| 17 | Some have withdrawn from smaller territories . |
| 18 | While some have pointed to political messages and deep moralising bursting from the cartoon bubbles , Asterix followers have simply enjoyed the fun and the humour . |
| 19 | Another point that some have raised in this connection is that animals can not — or do not — lie when using their communication systems . |
| 20 | Moreover , it is only recently that some have engaged in such strategic thinking at all . |
| 21 | Journals or papers designed to be sold in a number of African countries can succeed commercially , as some have shown in recent years , but these are directed at a limited , élite readership . |
| 22 | Some have opted for firm sale agreements to cut out the costly returns process , most notably with the Waterstones group and Reed with Dillons . |
| 23 | As one can not induce inspiration ( some have tried in vain , using drugs or alcohol ) , all we can do here is write about the 99% of work and skill which forms the other part of melody writing . |
| 24 | Although all those dying within six months of diagnosis had an initial CD4 of less than 0.11×10/l , three patients with CD4 counts below 0.05 have survived for 17 months or more . |
| 25 | A few have skied in various other parts of the Himalayas . |
| 26 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 27 | Most publications on the use of selective decontamination of the gut have reported a reduction in rates of infection , but few have resulted in improved survival . |
| 28 | However , looking at individual funds , only a few have delivered above average performance over one and five years . |
| 29 | But while the British have gone from bad to worse , the Games have become a Chinese takeaway . |
| 30 | Papert explains that Reagan 's election in 1980 put paid to any hopes of obtaining public money to establish such a centre in the United states . |