Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 2 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 3 | Could Kuwaiti have existed without British protection ? |
| 4 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |
| 5 | But while the British have gone from bad to worse , the Games have become a Chinese takeaway . |
| 6 | ( In fact , as Lord Goff , dissenting , said in Court , Faulkner v Talbot is a case on indecent assault , in which in most cases the sole mental element will be intention : did the accused intend to assault in indecent circumstances ? ) |
| 7 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 8 | It is quite possible to present an academic and deductive dismissal of consumption cleavages without any real need to turn to empirical ‘ testing ’ . |
| 9 | These problems are being made worse by logging practices which , unless carefully managed , w ill continue to contribute to excessive soil erosion . |
| 10 | The medical and sociological advances of the twentieth-century have led to many infectious diseases being eliminated or rendered relatively harmless . |
| 11 | By showing the authority of the apostolic see to judge in such matters the pope therefore showed his authority to decide on rulers . |
| 12 | It seems to meet some deep need to atone for modern materialism , by saving some of the materials from the rubbish bin . |
| 13 | Up till now many new developments in the care of the dementing elderly have come from these services . |
| 14 | ‘ It does look as though some top Communist agents in the security services in various East European countries-have vanished into thin air . |
| 15 | Further confirmation that public attitudes towards corporate crime are hardening and becoming more punitive have come from other American studies ( McCleary et al . |
| 16 | The short-term climatic fluctuations of the Pleistocene have resulted in rapid world-wide ( or eustatic ) falls and rises of sea level as polar ice has alternately frozen and melted . |
| 17 | Their preconception that , as science has advanced , phenomena once considered supernatural have yielded to naturalistic explanation , is not without support . |
| 18 | The communist want to return to this old policy but had to consolidate his position first with rent and interest reductions . |
| 19 | As far as applied psychoanalysis is concerned , the neglect of Totem and Taboo and Freud 's phylogenetic theory in general have led to predictable consequences . |
| 20 | There is a growing body of professional opinion that senior managers in secondary schools face and increasing need to work in close collaboration if they are to meet this challenge effectively . |
| 21 | Clearly all organisations , if they are to be successful need to adapt to changed circumstances . |
| 22 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 23 | Celtic have agreed to vital stipulations which will add considerably to the value of the Republic of Ireland under-21 international . |
| 24 | Numbers overall for those homeless have increased from 97,000 in 1984 to 135,000 in 1988 . |
| 25 | Cork prices have risen , and all but the best wine-makers in Italy , Germany , Spain and Portugal in particular have plumped for cheaper , veinier corks . |
| 26 | These have been possible because the portraits of Roman emperors of the first two centuries AD were , for the most part , strongly individualised and because portraits in the round have survived in large numbers — there are in some cases well over a hundred examples for each emperor . |
| 27 | Some religious have moved into smaller communities whilst carrying the responsibility for caring for their own elderly and sick brothers and sisters . |
| 28 | Now the Noble Lord , Lord Merlyn Reece and one or two other have argued against that , but I think on the Your Lordships would feel that there should be a wider constituency , that being so should these recruits be secured by co-option , by appointment , or by some other way . |
| 29 | Too long the deaf have depended upon VOLUNTARY effort . |
| 30 | I make two points : first , the incomes of pensioners in the lowest quintile have risen by 15 per cent . |