Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 2 | That made you anxious to see two . |
| 3 | That made it essential to continue making contact with France via regular radio broadcasts and to forge links with French communities abroad . |
| 4 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 5 | Yeah , but would n't that make it possible to take that out , and then it would n't make sense , 'cos it would say , as I missed the train which went in an hour 's time if you put another comma , 'cos if you , if you put two commas you could n't take it out . |
| 6 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 7 | Very high levels of compression like this make it possible to transmit image data over ordinary dial-up , digital telephone lines rather than expensive , special broadband lines . |
| 8 | But the general thrust of the above discussion is relevant to all such cases : whatever the alternative to Ord. 53 procedure for dealing with a particular issue , the question is whether the peculiar features of an Ord. 53 make it inappropriate to use the alternative in the particular case in question . |
| 9 | Does this make them difficult to follow ? |
| 10 | The naming is crucial , for not only does this make it possible to contrast one kind of relationship with another , it also allows the group as a collectivity to determine what the " proper " behavioural concomitants of the relationship should be . |
| 11 | Not only does this make it difficult to test the theory empirically , but it also creates problems regarding recommendations for intervention . |
| 12 | The news that the police were interested made it imperative to get the body away at once — and the river was the obvious ally . |
| 13 | Homicide affect superseded occurs diminished likelihood provocation led lose grievous effect category [ ‘ gauge ’ is correct ] analogous occurred accused alleged foresee [ ‘ proceeded ’ is correct ] inadvertently commit [ ‘ offence ’ is correct ] rebut offering argument adjudged admissible defendant [ ‘ appealed ’ is correct ] arguing led misled principal consensus existence irresistible paid parallel privilege believe indefensible lent its permissible occurring separately responsibility independent omission definitely abets accessory absence . |
| 14 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 15 | This made us both laugh . |
| 16 | This made it possible to rethink multiculturalism 's psychological interpretation of racism as individual prejudice in more structural and politicized terms . |
| 17 | This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner . |
| 18 | Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this . |
| 19 | This made it difficult to draw conclusions . |
| 20 | It 's really funny though this is all a new experience for me , I 've never really , you know it 's quite sort of funny analyzing it all do n't you think ? |
| 21 | The Germans and the French consider it impossible to have a central bank in the EC without binding rules , sanctions and other instruments for imposing economic policy , since ‘ even an independent central bank can not ensure price stability alone , as monetary policy does not operate in a vacuum , but rather has close links with other fields ’ . |
| 22 | It is used in bureaux for reference purposes and for checking case records and may be positioned by the telephone and used for telephone advice , because some consider it inappropriate to leave a caller while the adviser looks further afield for information . |
| 23 | ‘ So if Tomkiss and Wattling feel impelled to express their artistic bent in any form of … metalwork , it will have to be , I fear , in their own time , and at their parents ’ expense . |
| 24 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 25 | ‘ I think Some Like It Hot started around three-thirty but I ca n't quite remember . |
| 26 | The cynics , licking their lips in anticipation , were ready and willing to use what little influence they had to keep this Morrissey thing under wraps . |
| 27 | This started them both giggling and they fled upstairs in hysterics . |
| 28 | Some find it useful to have extra pockets on a rucksack as useful organisers , others regard them as a hindrance . |
| 29 | Some find it helpful to reflect last thing at night as a prayerful self-examination e.g. |
| 30 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |