Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern electronic indicators have a probe in each exhaust pipe , and can show temperature individually or scan to give an average reading . |
| 2 | 223 ) that the visitor had failed to take into account relevant matters or taken into account irrelevant matters or had reached an irrational conclusion . |
| 3 | He does not take into consideration the fact that they are killing , or trying to kill an living being . |
| 4 | And if you want to run a business that involves shipping an unwieldy machine across Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , servicing orders from London , New York and Japan , and travelling to Glasgow and London to seek commissions from the smartest fashion houses , then Back Road in Stromness is probably as good a place as any to do it from . |
| 5 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 6 | This is a valid expense of Shaw plc and it is the charging of this extra depreciation that has caused an equivalent amount of Wilde plc 's provision for unrealised profits to become realised ( see working 3 ) . |
| 7 | Another factor that has become an increasing part of the business scene in the 1980s is the changing relationship between seniority and salary . |
| 8 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 9 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |
| 10 | But Ian Porterfield and that wise old bird Don Howe have now moulded a team that has allied flair with fight , a combination that has brought an impressive six wins in seven games . |
| 11 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 12 | They feel , in a world that tends to cultivate an oversimplified and idealized image of normality , members of an abnormal , deviant group . |
| 13 | Avoiding the crossing of a busy road , climbing a steep hill , or passing the shops can be much more important to parents than having to walk an extra few hundred yards . |
| 14 | It is the population that seems to sustain an adult sexual imbalance that alerts our curiosity and demands an explanation . |
| 15 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 16 | I was hypnot-ized by the knowing way this eleven-year-old blurted out so unfeelingly a tragedy that had paralysed an entire family . |
| 17 | They formed galleries , which seemed so regular they might have been the honeycombed nestings of some breed of super-lice that had reached an advanced accommodation with their host . |
| 18 | The first hint of such an ability in bees came years ago when von Frisch discovered that bees that had flown an indirect route to a food source were nevertheless able to indicate by their famous communication dances the straight line direction to the food . |
| 19 | It was the kind of story that had brought an endless succession of journalists and film crews to Liverpool throughout the turbulent Militant-in-control years of the 1980s . |
| 20 | He had become a small-time mortician , specialising in the beautification — please allow the word ! — of corpses that had died an ugly or disfiguring death . |
| 21 | Since at Key Stage 3 the core units have to be taught in a chronological order that does give an initial structure to the overall plan of the three-year period . |
| 22 | Whatever Liszt was doing to please his Polish Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein , which interfaces prevented the completion of the Oratorio Saint Stanislaus , the music that remains shows an enormous step forward . |
| 23 | Although tripodding involves an additional operation ( and unnecessary extra work in good weather ) , in high-rainfall areas it will often reduce the need for extra turning and tedding and the risk of crop loss or damage . |
| 24 | In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ . |
| 25 | It is the basis of those reports that have become an annual feature of the budget making process . |
| 26 | It should be noted that in emphasizing the experience of reading Richards does not make the kind of distinctions between reader , author and text that have played an important part in a number of modern literary theories . |
| 27 | Tektronix sees a ready market among banking , financial services , insurance and utilities industries that have adopted an IBM-compatible Token Ring network : although these markets have not yet embraced X technology , Tek reckons they would benefit from the technology immensely . |
| 28 | In the least advanced countries , such differences may be only moderate , but in developing countries that have experienced an important degree of modernization , there may be considerable variation . |
| 29 | And to achieve this , they 've brought the old British League points limit for forty six down to forty erm that 's made an awful problem for the British League clubs . |
| 30 | Erm Harrogate er is a borough that 's enjoyed an enormous er growth in prosperity and economic activity during the erm exciting er yuppie years of Mrs Thatcher the mid eighties and erm er was indeed one of the I think one of the most wealthy boroughs , one of the highest economic activity rate levels , the Civic Society tell us in their papers it was paying the highest rates and all these sort of indicators , but with as so much of that period it turned out to be er a bubble and a chimera and er the borough has experienced some very severe erm er closures in recent years . |