Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If the firm wishes to stimulate creativity then the compliance rewards are not effective ( indeed , can be counterproductive ) and the job satisfaction rewards of challenge , stretch , autonomy are important . |
| 2 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 3 | However this by definition means only accepting candidates exactly the same length , which we have already established is most likely not going to be possible , so allowing candidates with the same reduced zonal coding is more realistic ( eg. for code ‘ muuu ’ all candidates will , rill , roll , wool , awl , oval and oral would be kept ) . |
| 4 | For a very frail person , coming in to assist with eating tea once a week might be a family contribution . |
| 5 | But I used to enjoy speed quite a lot , y'know , but never , I never used it intravenously . |
| 6 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 7 | This will be achieved by abolishing the court warning against uncorroborated evidence , widening the definition of rape within marriage , and using video-links so the accuser need not face the accused , an attack on the fundamental principles of jurisprudence . |
| 8 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 9 | The cables will need repeaters only every 25 kilometres . |
| 10 | Having gathered data and established the existing flow of work around the system — the Brown Paper — they proposed solutions around a second flow diagram , this time on white paper . |
| 11 | This will cause the cut-off to be shifted to pulsatances that satisfy or which has solutions Again the negative solutions are not physically meaningful of course . |
| 12 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 13 | So unless we train ourselves to find alternatives then the better answers that might be hidden behind the first answer are lost to us . |
| 14 | Secondly , their process of anchoring changes fundamentally the nature of common sense . |
| 15 | You say things just the way I sense them and ca n't say them . |
| 16 | This is a new sales approach , designed to support the industry 's desire to link information technology and business objectives to gain the competitive edge : if a customer wants to increase market share by say 5% over a year , Customer Systems might , for example , agree to take a certain fee up front , and then link subsequent earnings to the achievement of the customer 's business aim . |
| 17 | Having arranged to meet Vic again the next day , Mungo and Emily sauntered home . |
| 18 | The amazing thing is they addressed customers exactly the same way . |
| 19 | Most teachers and headteachers welcome some sort of value added comparison i.e. the value added to a pupil 's educational achievements after entering the school . |
| 20 | The lot cost Joe only a few bob . |
| 21 | Also , the aquifer itself is slightly elastic ; the pressure of the groundwater it contains forces apart the mineral grains and increases the volume of the pores slightly . |
| 22 | His wife and children found refuge here a year ago . |
| 23 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 24 | MELROSE found Peebles quite a handful in this friendly at the Greenyards . |
| 25 | Given that the nerves and muscles of the leg in walking show essentially no electrical activity while it is off the ground , McMahon concluded that the swinging leg must operate purely under the influence of gravity , as does a falling object . |
| 26 | If Japan resigns from the IWC and refuses to catch whales sensibly the United States might conceivably impose a trade embargo . |
| 27 | The final obstacles were removed when the Chinese foreign minister visited Moscow in December 1988 and Shevardnadze visited Peking early the following year ; both sides agreed on the desirability of ‘ Chinese-Soviet relations of a new type ’ . |
| 28 | The Defendants had to prove these communications were not records because if they were deemed records then the records management responsibility clearly stated each agency ‘ maintain an active , continuing programme for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency ‘ with ‘ safeguards against the removal or loss of records he ( the agency head ) determines to be necessary and required by the Archivist . ’ |
| 29 | The red colobus , however , needs fruit all the year round and takes it from a greater variety of dispersed tree species ; it thus requires a larger range which can support a correspondingly larger troop . |
| 30 | An ITV study in 1966 found TV easily the most popular leisure activity , followed by ‘ entertaining friends ’ and ‘ reading newspapers and magazines ’ . |