Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich tend to buy the services of doctors and the poor purchase mostly unprescribed medicines from pharmacists . |
| 2 | So they will continue to arise , but I think that it is right to plan to accommodate the ones that you know about . |
| 3 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 4 | Page 30 NY cellular telephones : McCaw Cellular has bought the half stake owned in the New York cellular telephone franchise by Metromedia . |
| 5 | It is clearly absurd to try to restrict the teaching of measurement to mathematics , and the teaching of good , clear writing to English . |
| 6 | In this situation , it is possible to try to group the postholes with similar characteristics , such as depth , diameter , and so on , and then to see if patterns of similar postholes reveal likely structures , such as circular or rectangular buildings . |
| 7 | The world is so full of a number of things that it would be hopeless to try to study every kind of animal or plant . |
| 8 | Sheila Scott , a state-registered nurse from Hendon , said the Government was right to try to make the NHS more cost-conscious . |
| 9 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 10 | It is as impossible as it is undesirable to try to put the clock back and treat the majority of pupils as being necessarily philosophical and theological infants incapable of any more . |
| 11 | Luckily , the Herxheimer reaction is less common in late syphilis , but it is still usual to try to lessen the chances of adverse reaction by giving anti-inflammatory steroid tablets before treatment begins . |
| 12 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 13 | There is no women 's Utopia lurking in the shrubbery Although Labour has captured the election initiative on feminist issues , ROBIN LEE remains unconvinced . |
| 14 | Ibn Fayoud said that the stakes were too high to risk using an apprentice . ’ |
| 15 | By the first evening 16–17,000 men had already been mustered on Haldon Hill and other reinforcements , including 7000 tin-workers from Cornwall , were on their way , but the Lord Lieutenant of the county , the Earl of Bath , who arrived to take command , was an experienced regular officer and was not prepared to risk sending the militia against Louis XIV 's troops . |
| 16 | Whatever the result turned out to be , I would need sustenance , ( the Eccles cakes being something of a long shot ) , and that meant being prepared to risk leaving the Shell for a lightning raid into Pigeon Alley . |
| 17 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 18 | They say they are willing to continue using the Skerne Park routes for a trial period while the speed humps are introduced . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) , who is willing to continue to enunciate the principle that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 20 | Nationally it showed how far the state was prepared to go to force an industry on a recalcitrant community and how , when a choice existed between the interests of foreign capital and the health and safety of both community members and workers , the state and its various organizations defended and protected the multinational . |
| 21 | But the study shows that those dedicated to breaking through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ on their careers are prepared to sacrifice having a family ; the nine women tested had only five children between them ; the six men had 10 . |
| 22 | It 's a tough market for the British to try to take a slice of . |
| 23 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 24 | Roth Scientific has announced the Suprex MPS 22 SFE-SFC system . |
| 25 | She may also be helped to understand that if she is willing to try to spread the love she once gave to one person around to others who may be badly in need of it , she will move into an entirely different dimension emotionally : one that will provide her with new satisfactions and in which she will discover that the lovers of this world are not only those who enjoy a close and exclusive relationship . |
| 26 | One other factor converted this blurring of factional lines into a quite serious attempt at mutual reassessment of their relations by these groups ; a younger generation of reformers , particularly personified in the secretary of the BFASS from 1852 , L.A. Chamerovzow , and George Thompson 's son-in-law , the journalist Frederick Chesson , were willing to try to overcome the hostilities inherited from the previous generation . |
| 27 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 28 | A firm with a lower market share than its rival would be foolish to try to play the game of cost leadership through the experience-curve effect . |
| 29 | The second is to be prepared to try to meet the objections of those affected by alternative arrangements . |
| 30 | Assuming that the underlying rationale of the distinction between public law and private law interests is to force certain litigants to use the less advantageous Order 53 procedure , it might seem to follow that an applicant would be free to choose to bring an AJR to protect private law rights . |