Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The urgent challenge now is to educate worldwide , to bring the relevance of gene-pool conservation down to earth , and to harness the energy of economic forces and team them up with long-term conservation . |
| 2 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 3 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 4 | It 's the second mix on the B-side most spinners are plumping for , riding into tranceland on a deep repetitive bassline and helped along by fountains of floaty keyboards that wash you away into hypno-city . |
| 5 | What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ? |
| 6 | Consequently , the next phase of collocation acquisition will be to create a set of uni-directional collocations and compare them with their bi-directional equivalent . |
| 7 | That means that you will be able to run an application on a number of different processors and have it look the same and work the same on each machine . |
| 8 | However , the Guardian of March 26 assessed that the Council 's composition suggested that " [ Gorbachev ] wants to bring on board a variety of different constituencies and force them to toe the line " . |
| 9 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 10 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 11 | Spread the nachips with a thickish layer of refried beans and place them in a grill pan on a rack . |
| 12 | I saved money on cot sheets because I bought a couple of king-size sheets and cut them up to make three cot sheets out of each one . |
| 13 | Their view of the seriousness of Iraq 's action , and the reaction it demanded , was different enough from Mr Bush 's to scupper talk of global partnerships and replace it by what might be called contingent leadership . |
| 14 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 15 | Use the template on this page to cut out lots of tiny Trefoils and stick them on to the bookmark . |
| 16 | The new philosophers ‘ cut off and deny the noblest parts of nature and then sweep together the dust of agitated atoms and tell us that they have resolved all the phenomena in nature ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ But we played a couple of soft ends and let them back into it , ’ said Belliss later . |
| 18 | They have to live with the fear of sudden attacks that leave them struggling to breathe . |
| 19 | They have to live with the fear of sudden attacks that leave them struggling to breathe . |
| 20 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 21 | Your task is to clean the underworld of foul beasts and make it inhabitable so the city can be expanded . |
| 22 | Brennan argues that while non-traditional students will continue to fit into conventional higher education via Access Courses or other means , more should be done to change higher education to meet the needs of non-traditional students and make it more attractive to them . |
| 23 | It is well worth exploring the //Graphics menu as it contains a lot of powerful features that allow you to present and interpret your data with a great deal of control . |
| 24 | Many thanks to everyone who helped with the Motivation Survey last year — the results underline the need this year to take every possible opportunity for free local publicity would you all contact your local Borough Recreation Officer ( or any other official source ) for a list of forthcoming events and get us involved with static and/or physical displays whenever suitable . |
| 25 | Let us make schemata of coloured mandalas and hang them on the mind 's screens as objects of meditation . |
| 26 | There are eight behaviours that are typical of successful negotiators and distinguish them from the less successful . |
| 27 | It is this attempt to redesign the genetic instructions of living organisms and utilise them on an industrial scale that is creating so much excitement and concern " . |
| 28 | When will the government and British Coal learn the basic principles of industrial relations and understand they are dealing with people not machinery ? |
| 29 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 30 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |