Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical interference need not be sufficiently forceful or well-aimed to result in some form of damage or destruction to a proper part of the victim , though we suppose that a violent action would generally be painful to the recipient . |
| 2 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 3 | We could standardize on US equipment with production under licence of those items that it is practicable and economic to manufacture in Western Europe . |
| 4 | None of these are as yet much used in mathematics education ( except for the dissemination of papers and electronic conferring in higher education ) . |
| 5 | About 40 copies new and old gone in 5 minutes after years of collecting ! |
| 6 | It is hardy and easy to cultivate in most soils , even dry ones , but thrives best in soil which retains some moisture in the summer . |
| 7 | Although sponges are widely distributed in the fossil record they are particularly numerous and easy to collect in Cretaceous rocks in Europe and North America , where dozens of well-preserved species have been described . |
| 8 | Lower corporate profits , the crisis caused by reckless bank lending and corporate dabbling in financial derivatives , tumbling property prices and scandals involving business , investment houses , the yakuza crime syndicates and politicians have been at the core of Japan 's financial woes . |
| 9 | Like his [ sic ] colleagues in most developing countries , he is , to say the least , unprepared and unwilling to serve in rural areas and has to be forced to do so although he is fully aware that rural areas and people are most undeveloped and disadvantaged because of lack of human , material and financial resources .... |
| 10 | Distribution centres were still quiet as Sarajevo 's 380,000 residents entered the third day of what city authorities have described as a hunger strike in solidarity with the hungry and diseased trapped in eastern Bosnia . |
| 11 | Motions occurring in one ground may acquire differing emotional and physical attributed in another ground . |
| 12 | Deaf people did 16 per cent less well in a comprehension test than did hearing people , giving rise to three possibilities : that sign language is less efficient ; that deaf students are less knowledgeable and able to take in less information ; and that sign language interpreters are not efficient . |
| 13 | Feedback is crucial , otherwise staff feel uninvolved and unable to participate in improving service standards . |
| 14 | You are hurt , I know , and unable to believe in any man 's decency , but try to believe that whatever happened to you I still love you ; you have not changed for me , it makes no difference , no difference whatsoever — except that I want to kill the man who hurt you . ’ |
| 15 | If it is not , then they are asked to leave for a year and are in a state of limbo , unable to play on the Tour and unable to play in amateur events . ’ |
| 16 | The researchers are working for the Frog Mortality Project , set up last year amidst reports of rapid and inexplicable declines in amphibian numbers worldwide [ see EDs 72/73 ; 51 ; 49 ; 47 ; 44 ] . |
| 17 | The database project is very expensive and difficult to justify in tangible terms . |
| 18 | Bipedal leaping in kangaroos and bipedal sprinting in frilled lizards help to make their flight more startling and unpredictable . |
| 19 | It is a novel which communicates the notion that talented and untalented meet in that country of the mind where everyone copies and steals from everyone else , where everything is reproductive or reminiscent of everything else , where one thing leads to another and this person passes into that . |
| 20 | Emphasis would be given to missiles that are simple to operate and cheap to produce in large quantities . |
| 21 | The Hamilton depression rating scale is a reliable instrument that is particularly weighted towards and sensitive to change in somatic symptoms rather than psychological and cognitive factors . |