Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems facing physicists who sought to apply general relativity to these newly discovered or hypothetical objects was to make it compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 2 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 3 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 4 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 5 | COHQ 's plan avoiding a frontal assault was changed when direction of the raid passed to the Army 's UK Home Forces Command , after a political decision was made to replace the marines with Canadian forces . |
| 6 | Thus the political decision was taken to keep all five major steel plants in operation , including the distinctly vulnerable plant in Ravenscraig in Scotland . |
| 7 | The usual views were advanced — that he would make prison too ‘ soft ’ and too attractive ; that treating lawbreakers well would encourage more crime and that prisoners were undeserving and irredeemable , anyway . |
| 8 | A useful model was presented in the Schools Council Project 13 – 16 : A New Look at History ( 1976 ) as a way of considering analysis , judgement and empathy where associated skills were tabulated in ascending order : ( 1 ) Finding information — ability to use : an index , library catalogue , table of contents , glossary . |
| 9 | Most individuals experience the urge to defecate on morning awakening and after meals , when colonic motility is known to peak . |
| 10 | Disorders of colonic motility are thought to play a part in several diseases , especially the irritable bowel syndrome , and also ulcerative colitis , diverticular disease , and constipation . |
| 11 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 12 | However , the Court emphasised the need in the future for the Lord Chancellor to consult the Law Society and other interested bodies before far-reaching proposals are introduced . |
| 13 | More far-reaching proposals were made both by the Majority and Minority Reports of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , both much influenced by William Beveridge 's analysis of the causes of unemployment . |
| 14 | In the rabbit population , on the other hand , the balance of economic advantage is shifted towards those individual rabbits that are big spenders on equipment for running fast . |
| 15 | First , their ‘ basic ’ economic function is supplemented by a major role in economic restructuring . |
| 16 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |
| 17 | They articulate the service conception of the function of authorities , that is , the view that their role and primary normal function is to serve the governed . |
| 18 | It is clear though that the economic tide was running very much in the party 's direction in 1915–16 ; in 1915 the first industrial tariffs for half a century were imposed , and by a Liberal Chancellor ; in 1916 even the Manchester Chamber of Commerce joined in the demand for industrial protection , causing the resignation of its chairman in protest at the abandonment of a century of belief in free trade . |
| 19 | Probably , in terms of company drive , this product was the sacred cow of all sacred cows and yet the economic tide was flowing against us . |
| 20 | In a lake with a negative K but in which acidifying inputs are declining , not only will hydrogen ion ( Hsup+ ; ) concentrations ( and aluminium concentrations ) decrease but so will calcium concentrations ( Ca 2 + ; ) . |
| 21 | In England , the complete technique was applied to serious music ; in September 1935 Elisabeth Schumann recorded both parts of the Evening Prayer from Humperdinck 's Hansel und Gretel . |
| 22 | Right FIGURE 5 This diagrammatic sketch is meant to demonstrate the elements involved in the movement of legs and wings . |
| 23 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 24 | ‘ A file will in due course be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 25 | Nor , in an atmosphere of reluctance , can the initiator be confident that a participator 's initial dependence on other people 's ideas and energy will in due course be turned into well-informed independence . |
| 26 | Other restrictions are less justifiable : the routine exclusion of the media from " in chambers " hearings relating to property in divorce cases , to bail applications in Crown Courts , and to applications for injunctions and eviction orders in the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court are breaches of the " open justice " principle which may in due course be struck down by the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 27 | It may be that the ban will in due course be struck down , or at least restricted in its scope by the European Court : a total prohibition on television and radio appearances by representatives of a lawful political organisation , for example where they are elected local councillors speaking about domestic issues , can hardly be justified on the grounds of national security or the prevention of public disorder . |
| 28 | The composition and terms of reference of urban development corporations will be changed immediately and they will in due course be wound up in an orderly way . |
| 29 | The genetically modified saplings will in due course be infected with the virus to test their resistance . |
| 30 | There are many such questions which all those in contact with children can pose and which the psychologist can in due course be expected to answer . |