Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |
| 2 | Over 15O staff from around the London area spent Sunday April 25 getting bruised and muddy while shooting each other in a Surrey wood . |
| 3 | The planners argue that the centralisation of houses makes the provision of services such as sewerage , water , cleansing , roads and lighting more economical whilst benefitting other agencies such as the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and the Post Office in their work . |
| 4 | Doubtful whether to accept this honour , he was persuaded to do so when the NID asked him to represent them as well . |
| 5 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 6 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 7 | Congestion with throbbing all over and burning ; blood vessels throb and pulsate as do local inflammations ; hammering pains in the head if they move . |
| 8 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 9 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 10 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 11 | Pregnant ladies and elderly people should be careful when eating soft cheese , as they should be when exercising . |
| 12 | Autumn leaves do n't mind this sort of treatment , but you will have to be extremely careful when handling pressed flowers . |
| 13 | Be extra careful when using large pans . |
| 14 | Southpaw stance forces the opponent to be very careful when making rear foot kicks |
| 15 | The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning . |
| 16 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
| 17 | Defining hyponymy is less straightforward than defining cognitive synonymy . |
| 18 | Nothing would be more serious than to have unapproved contractors receiving the grant . |
| 19 | His ‘ confrontation ’ with the Reds in the workers ' district of Emmaus ended with the tiny Nazi Party surrounded by a sea of Red Front members , who , to the intense discomfort of the Nazis , did nothing more violent than bellow endless verses of the ‘ Internationale ’ at them . |
| 20 | Even today there will be readers who will be glad to know of a formula for dealing with a salmon or a piece of one received as a present , too big to be consumed immediately and likely to prove wearisome if eaten cold day after day . |
| 21 | He arrived at night to find the strand ‘ covered in bodies ’ charred beyond recognition , but identifiable as wearing British uniforms . |
| 22 | These goals never are ( never can be ) so explicit as to exclude all subjectivity in interpreting performance against them . |
| 23 | ‘ Also , the high winds make it more dangerous when passing high-sided vehicles . |
| 24 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 25 | Ruth 's hair was straight as falling black water . |
| 26 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 27 | The danger is very real when reclaiming neglected acres . |
| 28 | Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks . |
| 29 | ‘ To us it 's as simple as writing good tunes and having fun , ’ he begins weakly . |
| 30 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |