Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes . |
| 2 | Either wait until all work is complete or abandon the current changes . |
| 3 | What 's more important getting that level and putting that right or getting the bottom level which to me would be more important |
| 4 | However , most of the campaigns are run by authorities in the more accessible countryside ; there are few campaigns organized by those in the remoter or upland areas , either because they deem them undesirable or consider the likely returns insufficient . |
| 5 | Police at Bessbrook are appealing for anyone with information about the incident to contact them on ( 0693 ) 838222 or use the confidential telephone 666999 . |
| 6 | Giant freckles , called chloasma , sometimes appear on the face or neck in sunlight if you are pregnant or taking the combined Pill . |
| 7 | Knitters unpicked old jumpers , washed or seamed the unravelled wool and reknitted it . |
| 8 | However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product . |
| 9 | Camp authorities are either unaware of this or turn a blind eye . |
| 10 | ‘ Vulnerable people should be aware that there are some laboratories and practitioners who rely on controversial and unproven procedures … which are not considered by independent observers either to be reliable or to have a scientific basis . ’ |
| 11 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 12 | Such calls are usually of an offensive sexual nature , e.g. heavy breathers and also come under point 3 , but could be offensive in other ways , e.g. telling a woman that her dead husband was having an affair , was homosexual or had a criminal record etc . |
| 13 | The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O . |
| 14 | If members have done something interesting or have a fascinating or unusual hobby and want to tell us about it perhaps letting us borrow a photograph of the member ? ) they are welcome to write — quoting membership number please . |
| 15 | One other element of this that deserves a brief outline was the adoption in 1925 of a contributory pension scheme to run alongside the non-contributory one . |
| 16 | It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men . |
| 17 | ‘ However the document granting the Licence gave Mr Manners the right to exclusive occupation of the land and it was this that persuaded the High Court that occupation rights under Licence are no different from those under tenancy , ’ explained Mr Hewitt . |
| 18 | Even if we had no standard semantics to characterise , it would still be necessary to investigate the structure of the classes of inter-transformable programs , because it is only this that reveals the true power of a set of laws . |
| 19 | It is this that explains the sharp opposition which developed between the two contrasting attitudes , and the antithesis that came to be sharply drawn between ‘ reason ’ and ‘ authority ’ . |
| 20 | First , it is clear that putting the National Union of Public Employees , the National and Local Government Officers Association and the Confederation of Health Service Employees back in the driving seat will never solve the problem . |
| 21 | What about a game of chess — would n't that be more interesting than following a solitary pursuit — or how about gin rummy ? ’ |
| 22 | Attracting candidates can often be easier than selecting the right one , especially during a period when jobs are hard to obtain . |
| 23 | This thoughtless response is so much easier than confronting the real reasons , as it has an inevitability about it . |
| 24 | Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really . |
| 25 | This trend was confirmed by a report published by the URA in 1985 that found no low income homebuyers moving into the area during the Programme period . |
| 26 | The plaintiff is aged 30 and has a normal expectation of life . |
| 27 | These , and a series of 2–2–2 type machines with inside cylinders , continued to be built until 1895 and hauled the principal express trains . |
| 28 | Obviously the decrease in the amount of time spent with the first-born will have an effect but many parents are aware of this and make a great effort to give attention to the older child . |
| 29 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 30 | But the court disregarded this and imposed a heavy sentence on the 27-year-old from north Staffordshire . |