Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] and [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not encourage control other than through the total cost and it limits the opportunities for a rational approach to budgeting . |
| 2 | In Lewis , machair is a small percentage of the total area and it occurs in a variety of forms ; small bayhead units , larger east coast elements north of Stornoway , complex beaches and strands in the southwest at Uig and semi-continuous expanses between Barvas and Ness on the northwest coast . |
| 3 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 4 | The other type of assessment may comply with schedule 2 to the original environmental impact assessment directive from the European Community and it does not have to be referred to the appropriate regulatory agency . |
| 5 | ‘ We have seen five consecutive months of serious decline in the European market and it has to be a matter of concern to all motor manufacturers . ’ |
| 6 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
| 7 | However , Nagel is well aware that Smith himself had doubts as to the social validity of the subjective principle and he cites a passage from The Theory of Moral Sentiments : |
| 8 | We all know that Britain will only become a world class economy if we have a strong well-balanced manufacturing base , employing skilled , trained workforce , a workforce which has decent conditions of employment and has legal protection , but we do still have some members within the service sector and within the professional rank and what has happened in the last five or six years to those members ? |
| 9 | ‘ The caring may not be true caring , ’ Bloch explains , ‘ but it is in the right measure and it gets results . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 11 | It 's played upfield and headed away by but into Shrewsbury 's possession nearside , good ball , forward down the right flank and it 's knocked back by , is the second chance , now level with the edge of the penalty area , 's available once more , is tackled and the ball is out of play despite 's rather erm annoyed look , it is a throw-in to Shrewsbury Town and of course gets booed , but then he gets booed everywhere . |
| 12 | Er the chance of rejecting everything on the table , well he 's now taking it back and he accepts the point , the point about the Regional Policy and he accepts the point about a National Policy . |
| 13 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 14 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Not really , I just kick the back door and he sticks his head out . ’ |
| 16 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 17 | Six months in the top flight and he thinks he 's f***ing Brian Sewell to the football world . |
| 18 | He will soon be seen as a bartender in the comedy The Linguini Incident and he has a cameo as a FBI agent in David Lynch 's Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me . |
| 19 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |
| 20 | Fore and aft trimming is effected by means of a small trim lever on the central console and it operates by changing tension on springs attached to the elevator push-rods . |
| 21 | No , but he seemed to be great , he said , he said well he said to , to me he said she 's with the real thing and she wants to go for it |
| 22 | It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself . |
| 23 | In simplified form , their model consists of the following three equations : where is the rate of growth of the money stock in country , is a variable , the value of which is known at the end of the previous period and which influences monetary growth ; α i and β i are coefficients for country i ; and are normally and independently distributed random errors , with zero means and variances and respectively ; and is a constant . |
| 24 | First , one of the main characteristics of attachment behaviour , which we outlined in the previous chapter and which derives from the study of animals and humans , is the specificity of the required caring figure . |
| 25 | He fails to mention that the two studies recorded in common from at least two folia in the ventral paraflocculus and he fails to cite the fact the individual Purkinje cells in these folia show the same effects reported by both groups . |
| 26 | And then it talks about the opposite accent and it gives the example of There 'll be an industrial dispute in a small family business erm and there is possibly a greater need by the employer to win the workers ' approval . |
| 27 | What happens in the blast furnace is that the slag is lighter than the molten iron and it collects on top of the molten iron and by some means that I s |
| 28 | The bank is advising the Australian group and it has been calculated that if its bid succeeds Morgan 's commission will add 6.5 per cent to its earnings . |
| 29 | The rubber is now in the glassy state and it acts like a stiff metal spring by regaining its shape rapidly after an extension . |
| 30 | These are just two of the many examples which could be quoted of the controlling and interacting forces at work in nature and of the subtle interlinking with occurs throughout the natural world and which maintains the state of order on this planet . |