Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [is] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone who is concerned that environmental issues are not getting sufficient hearing in the campaign and wants to know where the main candidates stand is welcome to attend . ’ |
| 3 | This illusion of realism can be the result either of the text 's conformity to the rules of the genre ( which Todorov associates with classicism ) or with ‘ what readers believe is true ’ ( which he associates with naturalism ) . |
| 4 | The fact that such apparently simple management methods work is astonishing to some parents . |
| 5 | If what Pascal , Butler , Newman and Browning say is true , then there will always be a degree of uncertainty about whether God exists that reflects an absence of proof . |
| 6 | This society 's accounting policy on provisions is that ‘ provisions are made to reduce the value of loans and advances to the amount which the directors consider is likely to be ultimately received ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Once the production opened and the showed the allegations were totally groundless we are left with a production that parents know is suitable for children and no one can take that publicity away . ’ |
| 8 | Inspection of graph ( b ) shows that with a given money supply of £50 million , equilibrium is achieved when the transactions demand is equal to £30 million . |
| 9 | This is a level which the directors believe is sustainable and which will allow room for growth in the future as the underlying profitability of the Group recovers . |
| 10 | This response of J's to the explicit time reference ( to " a day " ) embedded in the Creole part of B's turn is independent evidence of its salience for the other participants . |
| 11 | It was included in small amounts in tonics as a stimulant , a practice that all modern pharmacology texts agree is useless and possibly dangerous . |
| 12 | It is possible so to violate the state of marriage , specifically by adultery , that in those circumstances divorce is conceivable and permissible . |
| 13 | What small companies need is relevant advice |
| 14 | Former Israeli premier Begin is dead |
| 15 | Contemporaries in sport and coaches exert the main influences and the family 's role in the sports process is redundant . |
| 16 | And , as I have pointed out , its part in the sports process is non-existent — unless it acts as a deterrent . |
| 17 | Sports coach is new envoy for Russians |
| 18 | Watching plants grow is fun . |
| 19 | Ms Cornell could not say how long the approvals process is likely to take . |
| 20 | This achievement shows a superb standard of golf and the finals match is fitting competition for the Club 's 80th year . |
| 21 | A negligently runs over B , who is then run over by C. C's action is unlikely to break the chain of causation , as this is a risk to which A 's negligence exposed B. But if C stole B 's wallet , the court would be unlikely to find A liable , as this was not a risk to which A had exposed B. |
| 22 | The visible link with the past that old buildings give is important both as a fascinating insight into history and as an expression of the relative permanence of civilized society . |
| 23 | A study of Dalcroze Eurythmics from which such ideas emanate is valuable , but the practice must be used with discretion if the resultant ballet is not to resemble an examination of machinery rather than a feeling fur the rhythm and shape of the engine that makes the dancers perform . |
| 24 | But the effect left in the mind by this UK and USA reservation is unfortunate : it suggests , rightly or wrongly , that these nuclear powers are prepared to support the most elaborate codification limiting the use of conventional force , but at the same time want to keep their hands completely free so far as nuclear weapons use is concerned . |
| 25 | This confusion about what social workers do is important . |
| 26 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Dare 's nice — not a bit parochial … ’ |
| 28 | In ( he eyes of professional economists barter is primitive , money currency sophisticated . |
| 29 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 30 | It does not necessarily follow from this , however , that an economy in which large firms predominate is inefficient on balance . |