Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that some anxiety is necessary and normal to perform any task , in coping with anxiety and stress problems clinically we are usually dealing with levels which are too high . |
| 3 | That represents less than a quarter of the student population affected by the benefit changes . |
| 4 | Table 10.1 summarizes some of the changes in women 's work , or at least its statistical visibility , over the twentieth century . |
| 5 | When that failed many activists became demoralized . |
| 6 | Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ? |
| 7 | One did not , moreover , have to be very rich to cultivate such an outlook . |
| 8 | In other words , it must be possible to connect this particular in an unambiguous fashion with certain items that are accessible to direct , or demonstrative , identification . |
| 9 | It is necessary to distinguish between gradual and abrupt , minor and major , peaceful and violent political changes ; and so far as is possible to connect these diverse phenomena with their causes or conditions . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 11 | It may seem strange to include this chapter , but there are two reasons . |
| 12 | Speakers there included former managing directors of BBC-TV , Sir Paul Fox and Bill Cotton , and Sir Michael , who is due to attend another farewell dinner tonight , hosted by the BBC . |
| 13 | He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him . |
| 14 | That made all the difference . |
| 15 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 16 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 17 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 18 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 19 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 20 | Antrim will certainly vouch for that given that Carey was responsible for two goals and five points in their All Ireland semi-final defeat . |
| 21 | Blake 's own description of his work matches that given many years later by Peter Wright in his book Spycatcher ) . |
| 22 | Shelley smiled back , but she was well aware that he meant it , and that given half a chance he would stay the night . |
| 23 | The result , however , and the second contradiction , was that given this freedom local authorities behaved in a very similar fashion to each other . |
| 24 | Drily , ‘ Does that answer all your questions ? ’ |
| 25 | It will not always be possible to classify all the errors . |
| 26 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 27 | The building programme , the largest undertaken this century , provides for the construction of 26 new prisons between 1983 and 1995 , at a total cost of £870 million at current prices . |
| 28 | Even with these forecasts , the programme is the largest undertaken this century . |
| 29 | The fumes of the wine had not been entirely dissipated and she felt too lazy to go all the way to the village and tell Dr Wyn about her ears . |
| 30 | Greengross ( 1986 ) suggests , that using this as a basis , there should be a general power |