Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am six years old and eat pickled herring with my father 's mother Miriam Leah , who has changed her name to Mary . |
| 2 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 3 | The Centre was very popular and attracted many people with similar demographic characteristics , including marital and social difficulties , to those who attempt suicide . |
| 4 | The discussion among organised and informed disabled people has always focused on finding new ways to integrate into the mainstream community but on their own terms . |
| 5 | Warm and sieve 450 g ( 1 lb ) apricot jam . |
| 6 | Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 . |
| 7 | He says he 's delighted and hopes more people will come to see the window . |
| 8 | Over the past 12 years immigration policy developed by the Government has become more restrictive and hurts many people . |
| 9 | Three different circuits were used : The Outer Circuit ( the full course ) measured 4.45 km ( 2.77 miles ) ; the Short Course took in everything except the Home Banking , and was 4.21 km ( 2.62 miles ) long ; and the Mountain Course used only the Home Banking and Finishing Straight and measured 1.88 km ( 1.17 miles ) . |
| 10 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 11 | So it 's really about keeping his spirit alive and making sure people get a chance to hear this album and see it performed live . |
| 12 | After induction of anaesthesia tracheal intubation proved difficult owing to an anteriorly placed larynx ( Mallampati grade II-III ) and the patient 's great size ( he was 201 cm tall and weighed 118 kg ) . |
| 13 | Owing to the fact that most of his time was spent working on a vast selection of crashed and captured German aircraft , he got to know ( and love ) them quite well . |
| 14 | The interaction of this model of health with stereotypes of old age , which are generally negative and treat older people as a homogeneous group , can have profound consequences . |
| 15 | It is 4,451 km long and crosses 150 km of perma-frost , 700km of swamp and over 500km of mountains . |
| 16 | The cruise missile , 6.4 m long and weighing 1207 kg at the start of its flight , steadily drones at 880 km/hr toward what is called the initial timing control point . |
| 17 | Now when they were busy and had important people in our dining room at Ipswich , there was one , there were two waiters . |
| 18 | I echo his remarks , supported by some impressive statistical evidence , about the way in which the national health service in Thurrock and Basildon is improving and treating more people . |
| 19 | Around 1,500 competitors will take part in the festival , which will feature 20 sports for both disabled and ablebodied young people aged 11 to 18 . |
| 20 | If we 've got to close homes , let's close them but make sure the homes that 's left are warm welcoming and give these people the dignity and the independence to which they are entitled to which they 've earned and which they thoroughly deserve . |
| 21 | Alison says the National Health Service is woefully underfunded and thinks many people would be prepared to pay extra income tax if the money went to health care . |
| 22 | The enhanced model is just 34 mm thick and weighs 520 g without batteries . |
| 23 | The surprise is that it is much more common and affecting more people than had ever been suspected . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , some of the tension which existed between the police and black communities in the 1960s appears to have been relieved by an increase in the number of elected black politicians and their moderating influence on police policy : ‘ The growth of elected and appointed black people in the political system means that racialist and violent police behaviour comes to be more and more criticised and highlighted ’ ( Kilson , 1987:59 ) . |
| 25 | The four countries , Botswana , Malawi , Namibia and Zimbabwe , opposed the ban on ivory trading imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , arguing that their well-managed and expanding elephant herds require culling and that a controlled trade in ivory is the best way to finance conservation and to allow local people to benefit from protecting wildlife . |
| 26 | Obviously , individuals that either fail to find enough food for themselves or unwisely and fatally expose themselves to predators tend to die young and to leave few offspring . |
| 27 | There were , undoubtedly , people with AIDS before 1981 , but careful retrospective studies have shown that it was rare and affected few people compared to the numbers now involved . |
| 28 | Leaving potatoes unpeeled and providing fresh fruit instead of fat- and sugar-rich puddings is a great time-saver . |
| 29 | ‘ The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth , while completely devoted to the will of God , was far from being a timidly submissive woman , or one whose piety was repellent to others ; on the contrary , she was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and oppressed and removes powerful people from their privileged positions … a woman of strength who experienced poverty and suffering , flight and exile . |
| 30 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |