Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While money may be under female management , it is not necessarily under the woman 's control . |
| 2 | Another distinction is that in reckless manslaughter recklessness as to physical injury is needed ; in gross negligence the criterion may be merely gross negligence as to health or welfare . |
| 3 | While prosecuted crime may be largely working class , whether crime as a wider category is so is rather debatable , given that a large amount of middle and upper-class criminality goes undetected . |
| 4 | Since electrical pulses zinging down a wire are more regular and predictable than a steel cable moving inside a plastic cover , the result should be more precise control of engine revs and better fuel consumption . |
| 5 | Since the final common pathway in the pathogenesis of cirrhosis must be either excess production or deficient degradation of collagen by the liver , genes involved in these mechanisms are an obvious second group of potential candidates for consideration as a basis for predisposition to alcoholic fibrosis . |
| 6 | I made some mistakes — for example not realising that the maintenance would be quite hard work . |
| 7 | Sometimes actually bringing in the agencies of the law may be like pouring oil on a fire rather than pouring water on a fire . |
| 8 | Similarly , a newspaper owned by a forceful press magnate may be under heavy pressure to adopt a certain political line in its columns . |
| 9 | Availability of the medication should be under careful control in view of the dangers involved in overdosage . |
| 10 | UK air transport would be under national control , but with three separate companies : the existing BOAC , for services to the Empire and Commonwealth , North America , Middle and Far East , and Pacific ; a new British European Airways ( BEA ) ; and British South American Airways ( BSAA ) . |
| 11 | The costs of producing a particular product in a past period will be very useful information in predicting the costs of producing the same product in the future . |
| 12 | This may sound like standard Sunday Sport fare , but some people sincerely believe it , and more than you 'd think — the UFO business can be very big business indeed |
| 13 | My hon. Friend may be that perfect example of a person who never has |
| 14 | Water must be under public control , he declared , since private exploitation would ruin these fragile lands for all time . |
| 15 | I would be very grateful if the departure could be as low key |
| 16 | It is important to try to give the tenant the opportunity of objecting to unreasonable requirements and recommendations , hence the suggested amendment , although it may be that the landlord will make the reasonably valid statement that the actual requirements of the insurers must be complied with as otherwise the landlord will be forever switching insurance companies . |
| 17 | The approach to the tournament should be as low key as possible with changes being made only where absolutely necessary . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ The lottery will be tremendously good news for sport . |
| 19 | If we drill a borehole into the aquifer the groundwater will be under sufficient pressure to overflow from the borehole . |
| 20 | But opponents to the plan say the ban would be just unnecessary legislation and an infringement of freedom . |
| 21 | However , Townsend 's response would be that true deprivation is indicated by the fact that choice in matters of style of living is an issue that does not arise among the poor : for example , three million people presumably do not choose not to heat the living area of their homes in winter ( see Mack , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | In passages which resonate with the spirit of Bagehot , ‘ a man of genius ’ , Dicey argues that the ‘ rule of a party can not be permanently identified with the authority of the nation or with the dictates of patriotism ’ and that ‘ while popular government may be under wise leadership a good machine for simply destroying existing evils , it may turn out a very poor instrument for the construction of new institutions or the realisation of new ideals ’ The limitations in practice of his belief in ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ are finally conceded : |
| 23 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |
| 24 | He gave his opinion that no one man could be effectively Prime Minister , leader of the House of Commons , and chairman of the War Committee . |
| 25 | A future Labour government would be very bad news indeed for over 1,800 jobs in the North-East . ’ |
| 26 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 27 | But a prettier sight would be more frequent diesel trains packed with local people returning from shopping trips and visits to Glasgow and Fort William . |
| 28 | Keeping an eye on the weather … adventurer Rosemary Upton Life can be just plain sailing … ( with a bit of help , of course ) WHEN you get into your seventies for some For Rosemary Upton , who is just into her seventies , life could n't be more hectic or more adventurous ! |
| 29 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 30 | A likely explanation would be that correct adaptation on the basis of the LE form requires the speaker to " split " /f/ , thus : LE [ f t ] , JC [ f t ] " foot " , but LE [ k ] , JC [ t ] " think " . |