Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State radio confirmed the second attack and said five people were killed , but Buana Kabue , president of the Zaire Human Rights League , said between 30 and 50 had died . |
| 2 | Of the 1,500 senior Brussels-based politicians and civil servants , the British , French and Irish continue to show the most splendid ignorance of the eight official EC languages other than their own . |
| 3 | Husbands need to be understanding of this and both need to work out some sort of plan or schedule of rest for her . |
| 4 | The reason is simple : the unemployed and unemployable have flown in to try their luck in Japan . |
| 5 | TONY Rickardsson is ready , willing and able to help put speedway back on its feet . |
| 6 | If Yes , was he willing and able to offer to pay some of what Rich said he owed ? |
| 7 | ALTHOUGH John Kirwan might be in a honeymoon mood at the moment after the whole All Black team turned up at his recent marriage in Italy ( see pages 54 and 65 ) , his good humour is unlikely to last too long if the NZRFU meeting on December 12 and 13th decides to take action against him over his public announcement that he would not make himself available for the All Blacks if Auckland coach John Hart is not Grizz Wyllie 's successor as national coach . |
| 8 | Old and new have integrated quite well , though few of the true Thorngumbald villagers are left to recall the transformation . |
| 9 | Without the convergence conditions , it would be improper and absurd to contemplate moving forward . |
| 10 | As early as 1909 , British and Colonial had brought over American directors and stars for its films . |
| 11 | In principle the teachers were interested and willing to become involved . |
| 12 | Those socialist feminists whose contributions I find most exciting and challenging have drawn back the curtains to expose the contradictions and complexity of desire . |
| 13 | Garfield 1972 and 1973 suggested assessing the importance of publications by assigning weightings according to the journal in which the papers appeared . |
| 14 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 15 | He must have been charming and amenable to have earned the approval of the secretaries of state . |
| 16 | This aspect is significantly in advance of typical fork-lift truck operations on 2 and 3 shift working . |
| 17 | 1 , 2 and 3 have assumed a stable body of knowledge . |
| 18 | Sections 2 and 3 have developed a procedure for doing this . |
| 19 | More immediately , the government decision in the autumn of 1982 requiring a ten per cent reduction in real terms in the level of financial resources available to public sector higher education for the two years 1983–4 and 1984–5 has faced NAB with a considerable and daunting task . |
| 20 | It is foolish and unnatural to employ teaching methods that enforce and seem to advocate their quiet passivity . |
| 21 | Barbara Taylor has shown how women within the Owenite socialist movement in the 1830s and 1840s had struggled to advance a feminist politics through the language of radical religion . |
| 22 | A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place . |
| 23 | The hump was closed in 1985 and all shunting carried out from the east end . |
| 24 | Bankruptcy hit a private operator in 1985 and MDC continues to have difficulty attracting further developers to manage the site . |
| 25 | A follow up of the 278 long stay patients discharged between 1985 and 1988 failed to trace only six people , who were presumed to have become vagrants ( three had been vagrants before their admission ) . |
| 26 | The blurred boundaries of public and private have created many new ethical dilemmas for managers and also increased the possibilities for corruption and misuse of public funds which can only be addressed by clear working principles and codes of procedure . |
| 27 | Many medieval nicknames were of a crude , coarse , scatological kind and have now disappeared , but others of a more acceptable and apposite fashioning passed into the language as , eventually , hereditary surnames . |
| 28 | In the absence of the hoteliers , Mr Campbell announced that the merger proposals had been accepted by 111 votes to 22 and that plans to unify the two area tourist boards would now proceed . |
| 29 | ‘ Because someone very clever and ruthless has planned this frame-up . |
| 30 | It was claimed that money spent on the NHS between 1979 and 1987 had increased in real terms by a third , that more patients were receiving treatment than ever before and that the numbers of doctors , dentists and nurses had increased substantially . |