Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total task needs to be broken down into small easily achieved wins , eg every teacher will be in the playground five minutes before the bell goes to greet children and parents , four children from each class will have their names entered in the ‘ Gold book ’ for good work or praiseworthy actions , any child in hospital for more than one night will receive ‘ get well cards ’ from the class and a visit by a member of staff , the entrance hall is cleared of clutter and made more welcoming for visitors . |
| 2 | The adolescent penis insists on being in a state of almost constant erection , regardless of the appropriateness of the situation . |
| 3 | Our case shows that , with carcinoma of the gallbladder , rupture of the gallbladder during laparoscopic cholecystectomy must be avoided by all means , even if the umbilical incision has to be sufficiently extended to facilitate easy removal of an intact specimen . |
| 4 | The full-time MBA continues to be the largest , although others such as Public Relations , Investment Analysis , and Information Technology continue to attract substantial numbers of applications . |
| 5 | The only exception to the rule is when the plaintiff is under a disability , when of course the interim payment has to be approved and directions given about how it is to be applied . |
| 6 | And it is still a curiosity that the broad sense seems to be practically confined to the work of Scaevola . |
| 7 | However , the prevailing view seems to be that it is preferable for women to withdraw from the labour market rather than for men to have to retire five years earlier . |
| 8 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 9 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 10 | In relationships between siblings or between other kin , the two-way principle seems to be the foundation of support structures . |
| 11 | Such inherent problems tend to be discounted , ignored , or even interpreted in a favorable light at times when the political system appears to be successfully meeting the demands and expectations of the populace . |
| 12 | Most growth in fact derives from the creation of new bureaus to perform new functions and programmes which the political process brings into being : ‘ the budget maximizing bureaucrat is not the source of this impetus ’ ( Wade 1979 , p. 359 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think the political aspiration has to be accommodated to create a common allegiance and acceptance for the police . |
| 14 | This means that the high-bay system has to be contained within the envelope of a more or less conventional steel portal frame or space-frame structure . |
| 15 | But whereas normal grieving focuses on different aspects of the lost person , the depressed person seems to be grieving over an inner loss . |
| 16 | The constrained maximization problem becomes one where the level of income for the representative household ceases to be a choice variable , as it is in new classical theory , but becomes a datum , determined at the aggregate level by effective demand . |
| 17 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 18 | The uptake of 5-ASA by the intact cells has to be assumed to be equal to the amount of Ac-ASA produced and detected both extracellularly and intracellularly . |
| 19 | Handling of the wounded tissue has to be very gentle and non-traumatic and the knot has to be placed tension-free . |
| 20 | The oral shield varies from being roughly pentagonal to distinctly arrow shaped . |
| 21 | Quite how the Gore-tex fabric manages to be completely waterproof and yet allows body moisture to escape , I simply ca n't fathom . |
| 22 | Quite how the Gore-tex fabric manages to be completely waterproof and yet allows body moisture to escape , I simply ca n't fathom . |
| 23 | Okay , but why do we get the , the main thrust of erm , to the economic argument seems to be that we ought to be liberalizing , we ought to be facing that erm , that problem . |
| 24 | Similarly , at the other end of the spectrum , it is possible that transfer receipts may alter attitudes such that being a ‘ contributor ’ to the economic process ceases to be viewed as being part of society . |
| 25 | ‘ The bloody thing seems to be locked . ’ |
| 26 | The operative word in the duty of the professional librarian has to be the ‘ requirements ’ of the user . |
| 27 | Clearly , if the demised property ceases to be used for trading , the landlord 's income will drop or possibly cease . |
| 28 | The right leg seems to be the worst — looks as if he was crouching and got knocked sideways by the bumper , then run over , ’ Ben said briskly . |
| 29 | The right shoulder needs to be held back and kept out of the backswing as long as possible . |
| 30 | The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing . |