Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 2 | In the New Testament it means total allegiance . |
| 3 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 4 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 5 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 6 | If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting . |
| 7 | On the plus side it tolerates high temperatures . |
| 8 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 9 | As with the acquisition of any skill it requires conscious effort as each skill is practised to the point where it becomes effortless ( see Skilful behaviour on page 155 ) . |
| 10 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 11 | On the other hand , like any moulded surface of this type it has fat needles , rather than the brush-type filaments of a normal plastic slope . |
| 12 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 13 | At home he shows consistent management problems . |
| 14 | An individual is a member of a community from which he obtains considerable benefits , in return he develops special skills which he applies for the benefit of the community . |
| 15 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 16 | She says as a housewife she notices dirty floors . |
| 17 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 18 | For the language teacher it provides powerful clues concerning the causes of the sensation of floundering in conversation to which we referred earlier . |
| 19 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 20 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities . |
| 22 | For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination . |
| 23 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 24 | Every day it carries secretarial appointments . |
| 25 | Every day it serves identical food to 19 million people and swallows $1.3 million profits . |
| 26 | Cos if you see on top it says regional accent . |
| 27 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 28 | Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution it boasts award-winning museums , heritage sites and first-class accommodation in beautiful Shropshire countryside . |
| 29 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 30 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |