Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also use as pure a source of water as possible for drinking and cooking . |
| 2 | He then goes on to criticise Labour for suggesting that priority spending on education and training can help overcome the difficulties of the balance of payments deficit — because such investment programmes take generations to work through the system . |
| 3 | We have improved matters by cutting up the fallen leaves with a rotary grass-cutting machine which makes it easier for raking and collection for the compost heaps ; the chopped leaves also rot down that much quicker . |
| 4 | The High Tatras are popular for skiing and skiing is also possible in the Low Tatras though not on such an organised scale . |
| 5 | There 's also Billing Aquadrome , popular for caravanning and camping . |
| 6 | Thus , it is evident that , in developing countries , first of all in the Indian Ocean , Africa and Arab World regions , many women are exposed to pregnancy risks while still very young , perhaps even physiologically immature for mating and childbearing . |
| 7 | In fact , she was fond of saying that FAMILY and the women 's liberation movement were both on the same side if they did but know it . |
| 8 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 9 | It may well be in fact that there is a consensus about subjective taste , but this is quite different from saying that taste is objective ! |
| 10 | Hitchcock 's fondness for artifice , and latterly for extended European holidays combined with location filming , met with a setback in Torn Curtain ( 1966 ) , a spy story that was meant to comment on the Burgess and Maclean scandal of the early 1950s , but went wrong in scripting and casting . |
| 11 | The family is the unit of the class system : hence people are wrong in saying that sex or gender stratification exists . |
| 12 | Any new players , senior or junior , or anyone interested in umpiring or scoring , should contact club chairman George Roberts . |
| 13 | Masculine like they do n't make them any more , do n't give a fuck about Dante , do n't touch alcohol , find it cold here after their own country and are more interested in praying and politics than getting laid . |
| 14 | FOLLOWING in the footsteps of many avant-garde photographers , the hard-edge painter Brendan Neiland is much interested in observing and painting reflections , very often on a curved or waving surface . |
| 15 | Is he not interested in ensuring that building skills are available and , more importantly , that homes are made available in the right place and at the right time ? |
| 16 | If you 're really interested in running and training seriously , you should n't be without our monthly running research newsletter called Peak Performance . |
| 17 | Everyone was more interested in playing than reading — with the exception of Steve Vai , that is . |
| 18 | She feels they might underestimate the prevalence and notes that in the American study by Russell ( 1986 ) , which was particularly careful in choosing and training interviewers , the prevalence rate uncovered , for intrafamilial and extrafamilial sexual abuse was 58 per cent when non-contact abuse was included and 38 per cent when it was excluded . |
| 19 | It was not possible to do this without assuming that dreamwork transformations took place . |
| 20 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 21 | The problem is that of Explaining and Understanding and it applies no less to transnational companies , world finance , and revolutionary groups . |
| 22 | An outstanding example is provided by the Lua of northern Thailand who grow at least 120 different crops : 75 for food , 21 for medicine , 20 for ceremony and decoration and 7 for weaving and dyeing , a diversity that mimics the diversity of natural vegetation . |
| 23 | The lawn and sun terraces are perfect for sunbathing and table tennis . |
| 24 | Perfect for slicing or cutting , the distinctive taste and natural texture make this new cheese deliciously different . |
| 25 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 26 | It could be behaviour that is different or unusual in a way that is disapproved of , such as stealing or children-battering . |
| 27 | It also encouraged historical skills , such as handling and evaluation of evidence , investigation of cause and effect and empathy . |
| 28 | Employment relations as a fundamental relation of organizations upon which has been constructed a whole discourse of the determinism of size as a contingency variable increasingly gave way to more complex and fragmentary relational forms , such as subcontracting and networking . |
| 29 | Sorrel soups we used to eat , and lettuce soups , delicate vegetables such as salsify and celeriac , golden melting potatoes , a nutmeg-flavoured rice salad with tomatoes , apricot soufflés , and the famous fromage frais à la crème invariably presented in a glass bowl with sugar and more cream , Norman cream ( well , I said they were greedy ) , on the table . |
| 30 | These ‘ anticipatory ’ reactions are thus ‘ precurrent ’ to final or ‘ consummatory ’ reactions such as swallowing or escape . |