Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 2 | Edingley are sending about four and are sending about four but er as many as like want to go . |
| 3 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |
| 4 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 5 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 6 | Many cases are mysteriously dropped , the vast majority of accused persons , in all but the most minor cases , plead not guilty , and the majority are found not guilty . |
| 7 | Studies at Aberdeen University are testing how literate adults and learners could benefit from better spelling . |
| 8 | Next month there 's going to be an international conference around reproductive technologies and genetic engineering specifically to bring together the work that women in India are doing against sterilization abuse and population control with the work the women in the West are doing around genetic experimentation and invitro fertilization and egg farming — some of the anti-women scientific advances . |
| 9 | Had the defendant been found not liable in Baker , the plaintiff would still have remained uncompensated for his original injuries . |
| 10 | And what had that car been doing again this morning in the Dersinghams ' drive ? |
| 11 | Similarly , the likely phasing out of duty-free sales for people travelling within the European Community could also make many luxury items more expensive just as many of the newly-rich who fuelled the consumer boom are feeling newly poor . |
| 12 | But there is rich compensation in Barbara Jefford 's magnificent Volumnia : why has this superb actress been given only two roles by the RSC in 30 years ? |
| 13 | *Diversion of water is threatening the life of another Soviet sea : Agriculture and industry are preventing around 30 per cent of annual fresh water supply from reaching the Sea of Azov . |
| 14 | In the work setting , too , incidents involving violence are becoming increasingly common ; assault and even murder are now occupational hazards . |
| 15 | She points out agencies must have licences and checks on practice are getting more stringent . |
| 16 | The second , equally flawed strategy , particularly relevant here , is to ignore the realities of contemporary life in which state policy and popular practice are informed as much , if not more , by the common sense construction of a neat array of social problems as by the theoretical wisdom of the ivory tower . |
| 17 | Unless they are detrimental to health , it is important that , during an episode of illness , the patient 's individual habits of living are changed as little as possible . |
| 18 | Those whose nearest and dearest suffer hearing loss are offered very little assistance to meet the situation ! |
| 19 | Asked about what might spoil a friendship , the breaking of a confidence and ( for boys ) ‘ stealing ’ another person 's girlfriend were considered particularly disloyal . |
| 20 | Although the short-term projections were in line with many of those produced by private-sector forecasts , those covering the longer term were considered somewhat optimistic by many economists . |
| 21 | Arguably , however , the implications of the Manchester North-West result were to become more apparent in the long term . |
| 22 | If you can hear a humming noise in the pipework , the cause may be the pump speed being set too high . |
| 23 | Humming noises in pipework are often the result of the pump speed being set too high . |
| 24 | The other parties had met with mixed success and it was obvious that the enemy were mounting far stronger guards on their airfields . |
| 25 | Not many lives ago there were public hangings in this country and people certainly thought it was their right to watch and enjoy in fact , they even paid for seats to see public hangings , if they could afford to and as Mr has pointed out , er it 's not long ago er that bear baiting and badger baiting and cock fighting were seen as right and proper and no doubt spoken of as rights of free born Englishmen . |
| 26 | The photographs scented with the secretion were rated more attractive than those which had not been sprayed . |
| 27 | Studies of secretion were carried out three days after irradiation ( during the induction period ) and seven days after irradiation ( at the time that the ulcers appeared ) to see whether the lesion was induced or maintained by hypersecretion of acid or pepsin caused by lower mediastinal irradiation . |
| 28 | of all those convicted of vehicle theft were aged under 17 . |
| 29 | In turn Zachary Macaulay 's Negro Slavery ( 1823 ) was extracted by Clarkson for East Anglian papers and both papers and pamphlet were made locally available . |
| 30 | The Serbian oborknezovi and bašiknezovi who ran the local administration were left very much on their own by the Turks as long as they maintained order and collected the taxes required of them . |