Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gallup in September 1980 asked voters to indicate which of various descriptions best suited the two candidates and Reagan was placed well ahead of Carter on several leadership questions : ‘ Has strong leadership qualities ’ , 65 per cent — 31 per cent ; ‘ Decisive sure of himself , 69 per cent — 37 per cent ; ‘ Has a well defined progam for moving the country ahead ’ , 53 per cent — 27 per cent ; ‘ You know where he stands on the issues ’ , 54 per cent — 33 per cent . |
| 2 | The only side-effect reported : the sweetest smelling boots known to man ! |
| 3 | In Grampian Health Board since 1986 repeat operations have accounted for 38–40% of all such operations ( data obtained from Scottish morbidity records ( SMR 1 ) , Grampian Health Board ) . |
| 4 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture , rival to the SQL Access Group 's RDA , is beginning to find its way into third party products , and Object Technology International Inc and XDB Systems Inc each announced products to provide access from their database products to IBM 's relational database managers — see page two . |
| 5 | Given the laws of optics and the initial conditions , it is now possible to perform deductions yielding an explanation of the formation of a rainbow visible to the observer . |
| 6 | However , if two firms can each make profits producing at the Cournot output levels , this will be a non-cooperative duopoly equilibrium in outputs . |
| 7 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | It is possible to see groups functioning in which individuals are intent on putting forward their own views without listening and sharing their problems with other members of the group . |
| 9 | Other manufacturers prefer to use flexible alkyds , as it is the continual movement of external wood as the moisture content varies , that causes varnishes to crack . |
| 10 | The Act of 1986 contains provisions relating to many different aspects of receivership , all designed to improve the efficacy of the contractual machinery and to protect the interests of those affected by the receivership . |
| 11 | As every girl has her own individual subjects , the teaching is on a one-to-one basis , and each has cards showing her particular set work which has to be in at a certain time . |
| 12 | It will hardly get prices moving upwards again and will do little to encourage homeowners to move or first-time buyers to step into the market . |
| 13 | The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee . |
| 14 | The will to become this type is in the grasp of a beggar or a prince ; neither needs riches to achieve this nobility of soul . |
| 15 | Pauline Hoare knows of women who regularly travel from Kent to Durham to visit their husbands , and if a crime was committed in Scotland it would be normal to find families based in England or Wales having to travel up to Scottish prisons . |
| 16 | F passengers started voting with their feet , my goodness , that starts things happening on the security front ! ’ said Professor Paul Wilkinson yesterday . |
| 17 | West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency . |
| 18 | This may be too strong ; it is possible to state " general rules " for the interpretation of some common provisions , but those rules are only rebuttable presumptions and it is generally possible to find authorities to support a different interpretation . |
| 19 | It is more interesting to classify strategies according to certain categories , and examine the success of these broader divisions . |
| 20 | This discourages campaigns based on party policy ; usually the main contenders are all Liberal Democrats . |
| 21 | This encourages learners to build on their existing knowledge of their mother tongue to try and predict the codes of another language through analysis , comparison , and hypothesis . |
| 22 | This encourages students to think out their information needs first . |
| 23 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's painful to see children playing . |
| 25 | Do you think there 's a danger that the West could undermine Gorbachev 's position particularly with the delicate situation over Lithuania , if it 's not prepared to support moves to try and get tension reduced between the two blocks ? |
| 26 | 1993 offers opportunities to increase your bank balance , particularly in May and June . |
| 27 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |
| 28 | This involves brokers generating income by constantly and needlessly buying and selling investments for their clients in order to collect the heavy commissions which accrue . |
| 29 | This led commentators to predict a widening of the rift between Klaus and Havel already evident in differences over the pace of market economic reforms , and even a split in Civic Forum . |
| 30 | This led detectives to conclude that three of the four dead children had suffered potassium poisoning . |