Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We must distinguish between weak forms and contracted forms . |
| 32 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 33 | As the economic recession continued to worsen , however , the government , in 1976 , reduced very substantially its regional programmes and began to give more emphasis to encouraging economic growth in the prosperous regions . |
| 34 | ‘ It 's not my scene — them cocked hats and support tights leave me cold . ’ |
| 35 | Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA . |
| 36 | The ensemble canzon soon ceased to lean on specific chansons and developed a style of its own , uncluttered by the ornamentation of the keyboard canzon or the contrapuntal science of the ricercar , a style which Praetorius characterized in his Syntagma as ‘ fresh , gay and quick ’ ( frisch , frölich und geschwinde ) . |
| 37 | McClellan feels that the advantages to the librarian of this arrangement are that he is able to exercise constantly all his professional skills and avoid being bogged down by a heavy burden of administrative routine . |
| 38 | In other words , management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder . |
| 39 | In the absence of a ready-made framework in Scotland , the firm looked elsewhere to the English Law Society 's Continuing Professional Development scheme , launched last year and aimed at not only keeping solicitors up to date with the law but to develop management and other professional skills and to enhance career development . |
| 40 | To be a professional is to exercise ( and most importantly to have the ability to exercise ) one 's professional skills and to make professional decisions , without deference to moral , religious or political beliefs and points of view . |
| 41 | Sport was the true province of private persons in private clubs and tampering with this smacked of an authoritarianism foreign to all that Britons — Labour , Liberal , and Tory — held most dear . |
| 42 | Did you hear any strange groans and creaks in the night . ’ |
| 43 | They have regular regional meetings and publish a directory of members . |
| 44 | In 1882 the Congregational Union studied the problem of low stipends and reported that of 1,527 ministers in charge of chapels in England and Wales , 668 or over 43 per cent received under £150 p.a . |
| 45 | Ministers were selected mainly from the ruling National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development ( MRND — until June 1991 the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ) , with one from the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) ; both parties had announced their working programmes and had listed members . |
| 46 | The distinctive ‘ rattle ’ at the end of the tail is formed from modified scales and increases in size by one rattle section every time the snake moults its skin , which may be up to four times a year . |
| 47 | Vocalists had to bob down out of the way during instrumental breaks , and those unfamiliar with recording technique had to be man-handled by the recording director to bring them close to the horn on low notes and push them further away on high notes . |
| 48 | Texas Instruments said the decision to sign the non-exclusive agreement was based on several factors : first , the technology is available now ; second , the ARM core operates at low voltages and offers ‘ the best MIPS per Watt in the industry ’ — approximately 200 MIPS per Watt , compared with the AT&T Co Hobbit at 37 MIPS per Watt ; third , it integrates easily into larger chip designs ; fourth , it provides good price-performance — to buy chips in volume from Advanced RISC would cost less than $30 per unit ; fourth , the chip is tiny — an ARM6L has a die size of 5.9mm square — and there is a strong need in the automotive industry to reduce the size and weight of components . |
| 49 | There would be problems about fixing the boundaries of regional authorities and providing them with finance — a regional rate would scarcely be popular . |
| 50 | By engaging in some instances in dialogue directly with local and regional authorities and by-passing national governments , the Commission hoped to be able to co-ordinate the allocation of the Structural Funds and direct aid more effectively to the problem areas , thereby also implicitly weakening the influence of national government upon the use of EC funding . |
| 51 | But the bid for aid was submitted by a consortium of all three regional authorities and intended to cover the area administered under the Highland and Islands Development Board . |
| 52 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 53 | Another article to show much ingenuity in spotting small-scale correspondences and diagnosing their significance is that by John Irving , who aligns well chosen items of keyboard music ( and some consort music ) by Byrd and Tomkins to illustrate the extent to which the younger composer applied ( among other influences ) principles of ‘ creative reinterpretation ’ ( p157 ) of Byrd 's procedures in the development of his own personal style . |
| 54 | As figure 1 illustrates the Chemicals sector now represents 10% of total exports and has shown a 15% increase from £722.9 million in 1989 to £833.3 million in 1990 . |
| 55 | The cellulose chains are always simple thread-like molecules and do not branch by forming oxygen linkages at the sides of the sugar rings , as do other , weaker , polysaccharides such as starch . |
| 56 | that decisions are made for the right reasons and do not run counter to deeply held attitudes or beliefs |
| 57 | With the Hughes — Ryan Act of 1974 , Congress endeavoured to impose some discipline on the CIA by requiring the agency to obtain presidential approval before embarking on covert operations and obliging it to notify eight different Congressional committees either before , or soon after , such operations commenced . |
| 58 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 59 | These collections should be displayed in 20 medium-sized cities and rotated among them , say , annually . |
| 60 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |