Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The background knitting for these flowers is plain double knit worked on the Singer Big Nine and nothing comes easier than that . |
| 2 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
| 3 | HCIMA has for many years been active in accrediting hotel and catering programmes , both in Europe and around the world . |
| 4 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 5 | One of the results of the emphasis on remedies in administrative law is that the procedure for applying for these remedies is central to an understanding of the position of the public law litigant . |
| 6 | To write of male artisans is tautologous . |
| 7 | Their enduring popularity ensures that disposing of young Angels is easy , unlike some easily-bred fish . |
| 8 | Scattered throughout these studies are useful indications of reading ability and reading tastes at particular moments of development . |
| 9 | Correct timetabling in rural areas is essential to ensure that people get to work on time , and the consultative committee could examine such matters . |
| 10 | Lint or ‘ fluff ’ shed from conditioned cloths is minimal and tensile and tear strengths are good . |
| 11 | Complementation tests have shown that the HsdM and HsdR subunits from related systems are interchangeable and the HsdS polypeptide dictates DNA sequence specificity [ 1 , 2 ] . |
| 12 | It is clear that if the theory of social evolution briefly summarized in these pages is correct , then this is not how it should be . |
| 13 | The theological concepts contained in these phrases are weighty ones indeed and have been the subject of fervent discussion for centuries . |
| 14 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |
| 15 | Although YTS has proved to be an important catalyst for change , the nature of these changes has in many ways been unexpected . |
| 16 | The flow of investment between such a country and an industrialised nation is one-way , not reciprocal , and the stake which the less developed country has in overseas interests is minimal ( or possibly non-existent ) . |
| 17 | Regular travellers committed to such programmes are likely to choose hotels providing appropriate health and fitness facilities . |
| 18 | Farms devoted to arable crops are predominant in the eastern part of England . |
| 19 | Whether the performance indicators relating to these issues are relevant is more difficult . |
| 20 | That Minton had responded on many levels is evident not only from his paintings but also from an illustrated article which he wrote for Vogue . |
| 21 | Walking on icy ponds is dangerous |
| 22 | A strong background in quantitative analysis , careful attention to detail and an ability to work to tight deadlines are essential skills . |
| 23 | Therefore , there is no reward , in terms of additional return , for bearing the unsystematic risk of assets and the only type of risk that matters in markets dominated by well-diversified investors is systematic risk , measured by beta . |
| 24 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |
| 25 | Tuck and Southgate ( 1981 ) had found that 50 per cent of offenders reported by black victims were black , which reflects American data on intra-racial violent crime . |
| 26 | The misrepresentation and downplaying of class-based conflicts are pervasive . |
| 27 | Those who advise students say the pressures on those who seem destined for great things is enormous . |
| 28 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |
| 29 | Hegedus recognizes that the ‘ humanization ’ of administration will be opposed by vested interests within the bureaucracy — the fetish of expertise , the ideology of centralized planning , the principle of personnel stability , and so on — but insists that the apologetics made for bureaucratic relations are inconsistent with Marxism . |
| 30 | A new issue of shares made for improper motives is liable to be set aside by the court ( see , for example , Hogg v Cramphorn [ 1967 ] Ch 254 ) . |