Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb mod] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A secretariat staffer involved with the latter says multinational industry should police itself . |
| 2 | What sort of remedial techniques can parents use ? |
| 3 | Chi Ma Wan inmates have been threatening violent resistance should moves be made to deport them . |
| 4 | Only in the most favourable circumstances could towns away from the coast or navigable rivers grow to much of a size , a condition emphasised by Adam Smith . |
| 5 | The following Drinks Can Banks will be opened in Summer 1991 |
| 6 | What additional information would bankers wish to have and what purpose would they use this for ? |
| 7 | Only by understanding these basic factors can managers appreciate the context before decisions can be made about appropriate technology and other factors that may be needed to deliver the system . |
| 8 | Not until higher prices translate into higher profits for private owners will enterprises respond appropriately to the bidding of the invisible hand . |
| 9 | If the phenomenon of mark up pricing ( alternatively known as ‘ administered ’ pricing ) is as widespread as is generally believed , what instruments of macroeconomic policy can governments bring to bear to alter — in this context , to reduce the real wage rate ? |
| 10 | Only in the most pressing circumstances could members be expected to release customers from the binding legal contracts which they had entered into freely . |
| 11 | Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along . |
| 12 | What possible reason would scholars of the distant future have been able to deduce from that verbiage to explain the consumption of vast resources on the Civic Centre in Bucharest — except the desire to perpetuate domination even from beyond the grave ? |
| 13 | Yet such triumphant tragedies must needs occur . |
| 14 | Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass . |
| 15 | The lesson to be derived was one of moderation : " Not only in the exercise of political power should men of prominence be considerate towards those of low estate , but also in private life they should — if they are sensible — treat their slaves gently . |
| 16 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |