Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanism for this is not clear and leads some researchers to accept the physiological view that delayed maturation or physical differences ( such as reduced functional bladder capacity ) may be the cause of the problem ( Zaleski et al . |
| 2 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 3 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 4 | Therefore the plant should be grown in a mixture of coarse sand and some peat or bulb fibre to keep it dwarf , low-growing and encourage many plant clumps , which form an excellent carpet of bright green flora . |
| 5 | They rate themselves as very understanding and believe that women also value shyness . |
| 6 | So I thought I should try to stop smoking and lose some weight . ’ |
| 7 | Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution . |
| 8 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |
| 9 | The aim is to make something people can instantly get excited about but which also stands up to close analysis in terms of being musically interesting and having some kind of content and meaning … ’ |
| 10 | Of these two , sentence ( i ) was favoured : The justifications offered by the groups who chose ( i ) as the crucial opening sentence were interesting and merit some consideration . |
| 11 | The all-important top soil quickly disappears , and leaches into the rivers , making the water muddy brown and scuppering any chance of a new forest growing up . |
| 12 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 13 | He 's very funny , terribly generous and heightens any occasion . |
| 14 | From what we have said so far , it should be clear that socialisation is a crucial concept for sociology , since it directs attention to a key element in the process by which the individual becomes social and acquires those qualities usually referred to as ‘ human ’ . |
| 15 | Fontana 's treatment relies heavily on the use of Fourier transforms , is very theoretical and mentions few applications . |
| 16 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 17 | He was paid an annual sum by the British and tried any cases where there was a problem between them and the Portuguese . |
| 18 | The Centre was very popular and attracted many people with similar demographic characteristics , including marital and social difficulties , to those who attempt suicide . |
| 19 | If studenting gets too much for you , you can always commit suicide : Try hanging — this is very popular and has several advantages — see above . |
| 20 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 21 | Some large examples in important towns such as Rome , Constantinople , Milan , Trier and in the Holy Land were complex designs ( pages 94 , 96 and 173 and XVII ) which might possess more than one hall , or were multi-aisled and had several apses . |
| 22 | Pointing to one picture , he will say : " That picture has a good sense of pattern , " another , a good sense of form ; this picture has fine movement ; that picture is lively and expresses much humour , and so on . |
| 23 | Like Mum , they were good and meek and deserved more love . |
| 24 | It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era . |
| 25 | It asked the participants to stop haggling in public and permitted each bishop to take a decision either way for his own diocese ( Murphy 1959 ) . |
| 26 | Communication with a roving agent was always fraught with difficulties , but Leone was dilatory and displayed little sense of urgency as the new season approached : Giardini impulsively began to open up negotiations himself , resulting in an increasingly frenetic tone to the correspondence . |
| 27 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 28 | Body fluids of some polar fish are slightly more concentrated than those of temperate species , but ionic differences in osmolarity are minute and have little effect on freezing point . |
| 29 | Risers are used where the slope of the ground is steep and consume much water when boats are ascending . |
| 30 | My boss is very clever and thinks that presentation is one of the main things to think about . |