Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 2 | And posing with Bungo the dog , the new minister showed he 's willing to work with both children and animals . |
| 3 | And if you 're prepared to part with over £100 , Shine On ( EMI ) by Pink Floyd will make someone very happy with its 8-CD journey through the band 's career . |
| 4 | Les Holliday produces the near-impossible — a marine tank he 's prepared to recommend at under £250 … |
| 5 | His cathedral city was one of the favourite centres of the Burgundian kings , and he therefore had much to do with both Gundobad and his son Sigismund . |
| 6 | Acquisition is not easy to separate from either apprehension on one side or storage on the other , but it implies that learning has taken place in that something new can now be done if appropriate . |
| 7 | French coal production is likely to fall by nearly 40% by 1990 and to halve by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | Oil demand is likely to fall by around 12% to some 64 million tonnes per year , largely due to continued reduction in the use of oil for heat and steam raising . |
| 9 | Construction of the dam , which is likely to cost at least $20 billion , will flood 600 kilometres of river valley and displace more than a million people . |
| 10 | When Helena Levy died earlier this year the Trust was delighted to find that this generosity had extended to leaving seven-eighths of her estate to the Trust — a sum likely to amount to nearly £5 million . |
| 11 | This general picture of IS demand is confirmed by records kept in the school library , which show children referred to the school library in IS lessons between November 1983 and July 1984 to account for almost 80% of the referrals logged . |
| 12 | An aspiring university teacher appointed in his early 20s is likely to earn at least £4,000 less than an articled clerk in a City solicitors ' firm . |
| 13 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |
| 14 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |
| 15 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 16 | It has been encouraging to read of both parents and teachers objecting to this because of their belief in the Word of God . |
| 17 | This saw is able to cope with both timber and hidden metal |
| 18 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 19 | The third sentence it 's beautiful to look at etc comment on Jemma 's version . |
| 20 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 21 | I was able to climb to about 1,200′ at which height I felt it was safe enough for me to control any sudden change of attitude when I disengaged the auto pilot . |
| 22 | If you take advantage of the sales you 'll be able to save at least 20p in the £ on goods which are already at rock-bottom prices . |
| 23 | A CRE spokesman said he was unable to respond to either Mr McNeil 's or Mr Maan 's comments directly since an investigation was now under way . |
| 24 | If that is so I wonder how members of the public who have to go to the magistrates court are going to be able to travel to either Alton or Aldershot to have their cases heard ? |
| 25 | Furthermore , although our patients were not deficient in adrenocorticotrophic or thyroid stimulating hormone , a full endocrine assessment is essential to screen for potentially life threatening hypopituitarism . |
| 26 | This week LSI will announce a 40MHz Mbus SparKit it says will let a cloner bring a colour Sparcstation 2 compatible to market for under $5,000 . |
| 27 | Only one of Benjamin James 's children would prove more than usually difficult to communicate with as time went by : young Marwood James Henry , a strangely elusive character in many ways . |
| 28 | While the WTTERC , based at Oxford Brookes University and anxious to hear from more UK hotels with active environmental programmes * , continues its task of establishing a research base , identifying problem areas and probing ways of improving environmental practice , how bad an environmental offender is this industry ? |
| 29 | Oh it 's nice to look at though Ray . |
| 30 | Firstly , Plan for Action assumed that it would be necessary to start with about 11% more career registrars than were needed to fill the expected consultant posts , whereas JPAC routinely accepts advice from specialty staffing representatives to calculate up to 50% more posts ( for example , in general medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology ) . |