Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , most recent work into the psychological attitude of people as to whether areas are urban or rural has used multivariate techniques . |
| 3 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 4 | Females are just as colourful as males , and it is hopeless to try to sex this fish on the basis of colour |
| 5 | The Yugoslav government has clearly been right to try to switch inter-regional aid from a grant ( or ‘ loan ’ ) basis to a direct investment basis . |
| 6 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 7 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 8 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 9 | Those in the higher socio-economic groups and consumers over 45 years old tend to have higher net savings relative to their outstanding debt . |
| 10 | The French want to stop British imports and argue that subjecting Russian catches to a minimum import price would cut the cross-Channel trade as more British fish would sell in the UK . |
| 11 | We should remain concerned , too , with the welfare of that substantial minority of older people for whom ( and for whose families ) ageing has brought little joy . |
| 12 | However , it is interesting to try to make some estimates even if we have to accept that they are , at best , only crude guidelines . |
| 13 | To come together to help the unemployed has led many churches to take part in Unemployment Sunday . |
| 14 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 15 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 16 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 17 | Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime . |
| 18 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 19 | But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know . |
| 20 | Before going into a residential or nursing home it is sensible to consider giving any valuables not in everyday use to a close relative or friend for safekeeping . |
| 21 | Moscovici 's formula that the new social psychology should be both anthropological and historical seems to suggest both possibilities . |
| 22 | They are also prepared to contemplate discussing possible relationships that might exist between an individual 's language and his or her cognitive functioning . |
| 23 | As part of its effort to enter the international nuclear market , the Indian Atomic Energy Commission has announced that it is prepared to reprocess spent nuclear fuels from other countries . |
| 24 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |
| 25 | He is prepared to die to end this war . |
| 26 | Of course the younger user is unlikely to continually switch between the three , but continuity of product and of interface is still very important — my six year old expects to find certain controls linked to certain keys — how do you answer the question ‘ why does n't this key to the same as in the other Fun School ones ? ? ? ’ . |
| 27 | It is probably wrong to attempt to define electronic publishing unless it is done in a very general way . |
| 28 | What what would you have done wrong to get say one strap ? |
| 29 | It is the notion of an artist willing to attempt to maintain traditional ties and yet acknowledging the fact that he can not relax in the security of the past , that art must change . |
| 30 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |