Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notts ' new cricket manager Mike Hendrick thrust the 22-year-old seamer into the senior squad while Andy Pick nursed a shoulder injury , and claimed : ‘ The lad has got a chance of making it if he goes on working and improving . |
| 2 | By now , the fantasy has somewhat abated and some reality has entered the relationship . |
| 3 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 4 | It has not responded and further action may be required . |
| 5 | Favourable financing from the Public Works Loan Board is still made available to the local authorities , although the money market rationale has largely disappeared and local authorities borrow only limited amounts directly in the capital markets . |
| 6 | Crime has persistently interested and worried people , and attempts to make sense of crime and criminal behaviour have appeared in literary and intellectual writings throughout the ages . |
| 7 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 8 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 9 | Erm as far as the , the numbers of staffing are concerned , I would repeat what the er treasurer has already said and that is we do not know the conditions attached to these grants yet , if any . |
| 10 | The term ‘ off-shore ’ is sometimes used as an alternative , but as this has a meaning in other contexts the term Eurocurrency is the one which has generally stuck and most Eurocurrency transactions continue to be in Europe . |
| 11 | The list contains both approved and non-approved headings . |
| 12 | Institutional psychiatry with its reliance on hospital treatment has clearly failed and this predates the advent of community care in this country . |
| 13 | Author Austin , an active preservationist who has both fired and driven main-line steam locomotives , conducts you on a journey from London 's Paddington Station to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli on the Cambrian Coast . |
| 14 | Since nineteen eighty seven the number of vacant local authority dwellings has also fallen and these are the cuts I do want , cuts in the number of empty houses , cuts in the rent arrears , cuts in the tax arrears so that the money is there to spend on the services that people want . |
| 15 | The variety in shape , size and function has also improved and specific brushes are now manufactured for a myriad of tasks in food industries . |
| 16 | The public perception of Amnesty has also changed and this has not happened by accident . |
| 17 | The closing date for obtaining tickets has now passed and all money and unsold tickets should by now have been sent to Cicely Harris or Hilda Lodge , with the names of your guests . |
| 18 | Then , economists were openly predicting that the recovery would be more in line with previous post-recessionary periods , but that optimistic bubble has now burst and most experts are admitting that the recovery will be painfully slow . |
| 19 | I would be surprised if there 's a major opera house in Europe now which has n't got and English singer . |
| 20 | Erythronium dens-canis , the common dog 's tooth violet , has attractively blotched and marbled leaves . |
| 21 | This very heavy , dense wood has high bending and crushing strengths , medium stiffness and low shock resistance , but strength is of little importance for the end-uses of this timber . |
| 22 | But so far , against Timman , he has unusually restrained and conventional , showing little of his usual creativity . |
| 23 | On the other hand , against the backdrop of recession , rising unemployment and Government policies on welfare and the family , women have lost important employment protection and maternity rights , unemployment amongst women has almost tripled and any new jobs are mainly part-time and low-paid ; women still earn only two thirds of average male pay . |
| 24 | Instead of a ban , Britain wants tightly controlled and carefully-monitored dumping — essentially the status-quo . |
| 25 | It is suggested therefore that in the event of their failure such systems might be capable of a finer degree of control than has previously applied and that control facilities should be considered which permit the integrated use of all protective features . |
| 26 | With two wins already gained and two more strong performers to come , the middle position is ideally suited for the weakest member . |
| 27 | Market leader in time controllers for many years , Smith 's Industries has introduced two new electronic time controllers — the ETU07 seven-day time controller , with up to 49 ON/OFF cycles per week available ; and the unique ETU02 , shown here , which offers both programmed and random switching . |
| 28 | This does not arise because of failure , but , rather , the use of Total Communication offers both spoken and signed stimulation which provides a range of alternatives for the deaf child . |
| 29 | John Bray , senior brand manager for Nestlé Foodservice , which supplies both dried and frozen pasta , is keen to dispel any thought that one type of pasta is better or worse than another . |
| 30 | These products are invariably acid based , designed to strip dull oxidisation films from aluminium window frames decoratively finished and commercial vehicle bodies . |