Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such blindness distorts truth ; such political irresponsibility stores up trouble for the future . |
| 2 | In 1868 a flood of unprecedented proportions washed away most of the caissons ( the strong cases keeping out water while the foundations are built ) while the Skerne 's trusses were found to be flawless . |
| 3 | These included ( i ) a 90-day moratorium on new federal regulations which could hamper growth , and a fundamental review of all existing regulations ; ( ii ) an instruction to all Cabinet departments and federal agencies " to speed up pro-growth expenditure " , which would infuse an extra $10,000 million into the economy in the next six months ; ( iii ) a change in the federal tax withholding schedules which would stimulate domestic demand by returning some $25,000 million to the economy over the next 12 months ; and ( iv ) a commitment to work with the Federal Reserve Board to hold down interest rates and inflation . |
| 4 | The professional , however , can be defined as a person who practises theory or theoretizes practice ; indeed , the very concept of professional expertise implies both knowledge and use . |
| 5 | He may be willing to use his new powers as executive president to brush aside resistance . |
| 6 | Pluralist theories allow for greater scope for individuals , but they also have a far narrower conception of ‘ the political ’ in society These studies tend to focus almost exclusively on the constitutionally legitimised areas of political action to discover where power lies . |
| 7 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 8 | Announced last autumn , the initiative brings together public and private sectors to carry out regeneration . |
| 9 | For example , McGuire 's ( 1964 ) classic study demonstrated how laboratory subjects could be induced to reject unconsidered assumptions when receiving new information ( see also , Szybillo and Heslin , 1973 ) . |
| 10 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 11 | The usual dog-legs associated with a bomber raid were inserted into the route to give a false impression of the ultimate destination , and the Mosquito Light Night Striking Force carried out spoof attacks on either side of the main track with " Window " attacks and actually dropping T IS on probable targets along the route . |
| 12 | Even more did this apply to economic power — witness the failure of repeated attempts to build up copartnership or anything resembling profit-sharing in industry . |
| 13 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 14 | They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left , only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity . |
| 15 | Work , sport and social activities ran easily side by side , There was time for them all — after I 'd absorbed father 's time-mentality . |
| 16 | Phone British Rail to find out train times . |
| 17 | You find yourself on the crest of a steep ridge running gently north east towards the summit . |
| 18 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 19 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 20 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 21 | Detailed data takes up space so it can not be presented in a volume of this scale , yet without it much of the theorizing of social anthropologists seems trivial and obvious or merely boastful . |
| 22 | Light chemical washes simply task the edge off the harsher colours , reproducing a degree of the tonal mellowness that comes with age , and have only a minimal effect on the integrity of the pile . |
| 23 | The smoking data have not bee updated since recruitment . |
| 24 | Several other Policies fall within Scottish Boilers Control e.g. Business Interruption ( Machinery ) Policy SB2174-ET1 and specimen Policy wording should be obtained . |
| 25 | They have shown that immature fruits possess only growth inhibitors — abscissic acid and its metabolites — whereas more mature Fruits contain significant amounts of growth agents called gibberellins . |
| 26 | He held that section 238 applies to British subjects , companies registered in England , foreigners present in England and , possibly , foreign companies carrying on business in England . |
| 27 | SOME FURTHER NON-RIGOROUS TRIALS USING BOTH CAMERA AND RADIOMETER |
| 28 | A British gunner shoots down enemy aircraft attacking his post … |
| 29 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 30 | BRITISH TELECOM TRIES OUT VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICES |