Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a strong responsibility not to be content with the status quo , but to exert himself to try to find an answer , community to community , to settle the dispute . |
| 2 | Sometimes they may end with one side going extinct , in which case the other side presumably stops evolving in that particular progressive direction , and indeed it will probably even ‘ regress ’ for economic reasons soon to be discussed . |
| 3 | In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end . |
| 4 | The island no longer gave men without much capital the economic opportunity sometimes to be found on a frontier , where land can be acquired cheaply by anyone prepared to make the great effort needed to clear it and plant the first crops . |
| 5 | But these are technical considerations not to be dwelt on here . |
| 6 | As Willie explains : ‘ Initially there was extensive setting out to be done . |
| 7 | She brings us to a town where the sky is full of burning , the old synagogue about to be engulfed ; white doves wheel round the rooftops , beat their wings , drive off the flames . |
| 8 | In the demand drawing the broken line is pushed to a different level instead of being drawn to it . |
| 9 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 10 | But she instructed her fast-beating heart not to be so idiotic , that Ven meant nothing by that other than that he was intrigued that her journalistic methods were unlike those of any other journalist he had met . |
| 11 | Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | In this case not to be skinned , but to be saved . |
| 13 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 14 | Its officials today orchestrate an annual plethora of money-spinning international tours of such proportions that it would be unreasonable for players fulfilling these official commitments at this level not to be compensated financially . |
| 15 | I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’ |
| 16 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
| 17 | That the wall over this altar is no longer bare demonstrates the new , forward-looking nature of the hitherto so tragic , so complicated relations between the Germans and Czechs , and of their reciprocal readiness now to be reconciled ‘ . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 19 | Having won 15 of the rally 's 33 special stages , Biasion became world champion with the Ivory Coast and British rallies still to be run in a season spanning 13 events . |
| 20 | Bao , the former head of the CCP central committee 's office on political structural reform , had been a key participant in implementing Zhao 's reformist policies , and was the most senior public figure yet to be tried in connection with the 1989 unrest . |
| 21 | Second , there was a marked trend for ( female ) referrals by GPs subsequently considered to be primarily about social relationships not to be sectioned . |
| 22 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 23 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 24 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 25 | Donna Landry believes that the poem ’ … presents an iconography of paternal despotism and daughterly humiliation scarcely to be met with elsewhere in eighteenth-century verse' [ Landry , 103 ] . |
| 26 | After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform . |
| 27 | Telephone system still requires documentation , and some functions still to be added or re-instated . |
| 28 | ‘ Now it is quite right of them , of course , to allow our social obligations not to be forgotten ; there 'll probably be an argument . |
| 29 | There was plenty of old business still to be settled . |
| 30 | An acquaintance of mine arrived some weeks later to be told that he could have them if he had turned up sooner . |