Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included ensuring the consultations would be ‘ meaningful , open-minded and fully taken account of before the final decision ( on closures ) is made ’ . |
| 2 | To avoid this and also to facilitate starting , engines are set to run about fifteen per cent rich on the ground . |
| 3 | Essentially this relates to the on the failure by researchers , and for that matter policy makers and practitioners , to operationalize a clear and widely agreed definition of what constitutes abuse . |
| 4 | Of the British version , Miss Benn says : ‘ Ms magazine will provide a clear and much needed voice in current British political and cultural debate — feminist and otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | Other items supplied with the PT 425SX , and included in the price , are TK Check Diagnostic Software , the Microsoft Productivity Pack , Free Hot-line Support for Life and a series of clear and nicely presented user manuals . |
| 6 | Just as the catechism sets out the substance of the faith for the lay people , so Primers , specifically designed prayer books to enable lay people to share in the liturgical offices of the Church , incorporated it into a series of devotions that daily and poignantly remind man of the cycle of salvation . |
| 7 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 8 | Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal and systematically degrading treatment the prisoners receive in jail . |
| 9 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 10 | This is the most interesting and well preserved specimen of sixth century Byzantine church building in the west . |
| 11 | Quite how the Gore-tex fabric manages to be completely waterproof and yet allows body moisture to escape , I simply ca n't fathom . |
| 12 | Quite how the Gore-tex fabric manages to be completely waterproof and yet allows body moisture to escape , I simply ca n't fathom . |
| 13 | Now an inspiring white-painted and immaculately maintained watermill nestles idyllically in wooden grounds and all is serenely reflected in the calm , cool mill pond . |
| 14 | Immatures ( see pp. 156–7 ) start brown and gradually develop adult plumage , over 3–4 years in the larger species . |
| 15 | But it gave her another flare of confidence , this elusive and somehow warming reminder of her childhood . |
| 16 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 17 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 18 | Thus interest rates may be too high and so discourage investment , while what finance there is for investment is channelled into socially inefficient uses . |
| 19 | The cost of provision of such sewers and the associated easements can be very high and therefore affect site value . |
| 20 | if we were going to buy a goalie ( well fantasize about it anyway ) then Flowers would be the best bet followed by Coton , Southall is too old and rapidly becomming crap . |
| 21 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 22 | He understood that heaven and hell were here on earth , and that little by little heaven would drive out hell , and that the efforts of men of intelligence and goodwill should be dedicated to hastening that process ; and that even the word ‘ should ’ , with its implication of duty and overtones of guilt , was in this brave and newly discovered world , inappropriate . |
| 23 | It seems probable that if the programme had addressed the curriculum in a more direct and sharply focused way , concentrating attention and resources on particular curriculum areas at a time , then the impact on the quality of children 's curriculum experiences , and hence on their learning , would have been much greater . |
| 24 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 25 | In conditions below ten knots a masthead drifter , set flying from a tack point on the extended and heavily reinforced pulpit structure , should help Q2 in what are anticipated to be her least favoured conditions . |
| 26 | John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies . |
| 27 | James Byam Shaw CBE , the distinguished and much loved art historian and connoisseur of drawings , died 18 March . |
| 28 | I would not claim specialist knowledge of penal systems in Britain or overseas but offer my observations as those of an interested and reasonably informed member of the general public . |
| 29 | The Leeds conference announces ( under the general title of ‘ Subversions ’ Objects ’ ) that it will ‘ investigate forms of art and art history often regarded as subversive or marginal : the social history of art ; feminist studies ; sculpture , printmaking , the decorative arts and design ; popular and electronically produced culture ’ . |
| 30 | Because of the artist 's status as a household name and his command of spectacular prices at auction , the museum exhibition was inevitably both a highly popular and broadly attended show . |