Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He represents the past and he keeps talking about history because he is history and I said that he 's he represents old fashioned moral values . |
| 2 | The tour , sponsored by New Zealand 's Rugby News magazine , also looks likely to include four games in Ireland . |
| 3 | The extra strength of synthetic fibre allows Evergreen to spin finer yarns with efficiency . |
| 4 | To achieve the hoped-for reductions in public spending , the government appears prepared to see dramatic reductions in standards and in scope of provision . |
| 5 | Peter Blake , the skipper of Steinlager 2 , has pinned his course to the 50th Parallel , doubtless in an effort to avoid the icebergs ; Dalton seems willing to take greater risks . |
| 6 | It seems appropriate to distinguish two kinds of contextual selection , according to whether the selected sense is established or not . |
| 7 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 8 | In effect the insider who questions the gross systems of classification which define police practice seems set to join those deviants or criminals who contest the system of law and order by breaking its rules and regulations . |
| 9 | Other factors such as the personal and public importance of the event are equally likely to be of significance and it seems inappropriate to regard such memories as providing evidence for a general enhancement of memory related to increased arousal or emotion . |
| 10 | The learning outcomes in these modules have so much in common that it seems inappropriate to have three teachers teaching them in three separate classrooms . |
| 11 | In many ways it seems churlish to criticize Competing Discourses as I have , for there are so few books available which engage with discourse stylistics in a manner which is readable and accessible . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the notion of implicature seems likely to effect substantial simplifications in both the structure and the content of semantic descriptions . |
| 13 | The Press interest in this affair seems likely to reach ludicrous heights with the Grand Prix tomorrow . |
| 14 | The trend seems likely to force small firms to compete with the large corporate sector on pay , training and fringe benefits , putting further pressure on their ability to cope with the strains of growth . |
| 15 | The police want to make far more checks on vehicles going into the City , but the government seems unwilling to change current laws that impede this . |
| 16 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 17 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 18 | It seems difficult to write behavioural objectives for this domain alone , as affective functioning is always interwoven with cognitive functioning . |
| 19 | It seems silly to take two cars . " |
| 20 | Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out , one at a time ? |
| 21 | A party which feels obliged to pitch such climbs in good conditions should really go and choose something easier . |
| 22 | In addition , it becomes possible to notice certain movements , just out of focus on the horizon . |
| 23 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 24 | It becomes possible to imagine other ways of living . |
| 25 | Drawing on the insights identified above — combining the principles of human resource management , management of excellence and total quality management — it becomes possible to propose four principles for human resource management in education ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 26 | Finally , and on an optimistic note , if information technology is used to structure the organisation of work in ways which allow more people greater flexibility and choice it becomes possible to share different kinds of work more equitably . |
| 27 | Even when feminist psychology deals with class differences , it often reproduces conventional psychology 's concentration on areas which dominant discourses of class see as important , like sexuality , and attitudes to success ( Rainwater 1972 , Weston and Mednick 1972 ) , and proves unable to see working-class subjects as psychologically or socially different from each other . |
| 28 | When modelling vertical restraints , it becomes important to incorporate these features ( see e.g. Dixit , 1983 ; Mathewson and Winter , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | It becomes important to say these things in view of the fact that Christian people tend to look to Jesus ' teaching and actions as exemplary of what human relationships should be . |
| 30 | The minority still have a right to object to the court but that opposition is usually known and dealt with before the bidder becomes committed to acquire any shares in the target . |