Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where possible give her some task to carry out during the outing for example , helping to find the items on a shopping list . |
| 2 | Briefly put , all these changes in employment and residence mean that fewer and fewer people in the developing countries are able or willing to procure their own food directly from the land and so they are becoming more and more dependent on bought and processed food and drink . |
| 3 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | It will also provide teachers and others with the means of identifying the need for further diagnostic assessments for particular pupils where appropriate to help their educational development ; |
| 5 | Foreign & Colonial launched its first scheme last month in response to public demand , while Alastair Herbert , of Invesco , says business in the last two years amounted to more than £40 million . |
| 6 | Only when the Crown showed itself unable or unwilling to uphold their serf-owning authority would the nobility be motivated to question the Tsar 's ‘ absolute ’ power . |
| 7 | But she was , of course , unable or unwilling to tell me much more than that my son was dead , and that there were certain wounds . |
| 8 | They categorised all applicants , genuine or otherwise , who were unable or unwilling to specify their long term intentions , as necessarily falling outside the ambit of the rules and thus doomed to inevitable failure when applying for entry clearance . |
| 9 | These derelict landscapes can take the punishment , they are the places that youth can work off its frustrations without causing too much damage , and where many experience their first taste of love . |
| 10 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 11 | The High Elves abandoned their towers and cities , leaving behind a small number of their people who were unwilling or unable to leave their adopted homeland . |
| 12 | Reconstituted , however , within new ideological discourses , skilled labour proved unwilling or unable to acknowledge its radical lineage and act accordingly . |
| 13 | that he treated Ian Royan without taking a proper history or examination , or first contacting his general practitioner ; and |
| 14 | In particular , they supported their case by invoking the plight of the ‘ surplus ’ women , who , through no fault of their own , found themselves either reliant on the good offices of a male relative or obliged to earn their own living . |
| 15 | She put her arms out from her sides and back , arching her spine and pondering vaguely as she did so why it had been thought necessary or relevant to give them such old bodies , perhaps to keep the idea of the passing of time , simple mortality , to the forefront of their minds . |
| 16 | Should she tell him yes , he had made her pregnant , and see if he would give her a guinea or two to put it right ? |
| 17 | Not even the Grand Slams of 1984 or 1990 offered anything comparable . |
| 18 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 19 | That that does us all the world of good . |
| 20 | Mhm , and you do n't find that that gives you any difficulty at all , er with people who genuinely want to find your number ? |
| 21 | They 're about , that that makes them nineteen points in the lead . |
| 22 | I prefer Beethoven , actually I 'm not sure I do prefer Beethoven , but had you said Bach I would have preferred that , but I do n't see that that I mean you 're implying that that makes me better , or at least makes me think I 'm better than somebody who likes Madonna , and that I do n't agree with . |
| 23 | I agree that many applications come in the holiday period and that that makes it difficult to maintain that average . |
| 24 | He 's certainly not around any more and she does n't wear a wedding ring — not that that means anything these days . ’ |
| 25 | Any AME who has to re-equip will have to do more than that to make it worthwhile . |
| 26 | James was divorced , so that makes us both adulterers . ’ |
| 27 | The two main parts of Limoges were separated geographically and by the fact that each had its own enclosure . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 29 | In practice , most men thought that each had his own place and function ; and though the boundary lines were very variously drawn , most men assumed that it was the duty of regnum and sacerdotium to co-operate in doing Christ 's work . |
| 30 | Children are encouraged to support one another , recognising that each has their own strengths and weaknesses . |