Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were established to serve specific regional or industry needs whilst others enabled small domestically-orientated banks in various countries to participate collectively in the euro-currency markets . |
| 2 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 3 | It is interesting that Trudgill finds that new dialect acquisition is more likely to follow the " fixed route " in older learners . |
| 4 | The high cost of heat , light and power means that the Cassons need to seek advice form the utility companies over tariffs , rates and off-peak usage . |
| 5 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 6 | And now they would be dancing , as we said , dancing right down , with the elegance and economy of movement that only exhaustion brings , the careful and expert moves that only come at that particular time in the morning . |
| 7 | Crowds make me paranoid and claustrophobic but Tod seeks and loves the company of crowds . |
| 8 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 9 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 10 | There is something wrong when Viz sells and Punch does n't . |
| 11 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 12 | Whilst this system controls the cost per case , the incentive to the supplier is still to treat as many cases as possible and experience suggests that overall expenditure does not necessarily fall , since more cases are treated . |
| 13 | By comparing the products in the ‘ normal ’ and ‘ mutant ’ reactions , normal and mutant homozygotes as well as heterozygote carriers are easily identified . |
| 14 | and , , and they felt really bad apparently and they 'd apologized , you know , and everything was cool and I thought I was quite adamant though but they 'd , they , I 'm not used to this , you know , I 'm quite naive as Zoey says and I 'm not used to boys |
| 15 | According to official Iraqi sources , the stolen items include terracotta figurines , earthenware vessels and jars , statues , flat and cylinder seals as well as metal articles with Arabic writing , gold and silver Islamic coins , and a number of clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions dating from various periods in history . |
| 16 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 17 | The row came just as talks were starting on the environmental and labour safeguards that the Clinton administration wants before asking Congress to ratify the North American Free-Trade Agreement involving the United States , Mexico and Canada . |
| 18 | This is all very well until equipment fails or filters become blocked . |
| 19 | It is unfortunate that knowledge of this important phase in Northumbrian dynastic history is so slight but Bede says that Osric nominated Ceolwulf as his successor ( HE V , 23 ) , and Bede appears to have welcomed his accession , sending him a draft version of the Ecclesiastical History for his comments and criticism and dedicating the finished work to him ( HE Preface ) . |
| 20 | Maybe I 'm reading too much into little things , maybe it 's all as petty as Dave says and maybe I 'm just fearing the worst . |
| 21 | As long as you know you 're responsible for it and as long as Elizabeth knows that she 's gon na do it , that 's not a problem . |
| 22 | It is the product of Adacom Network Routers Ltd and Harari says that 40 of the boxes are already out on beta test , one of them at IBM Israel Ltd , which he says has proved enthusiastic . |
| 23 | Many nations are apprehensive because the treaty establishes no controls to prevent the ruthless industrial and trading practices that built Japan 's pre-war commercial empire . |
| 24 | 9% of affected births are caused by malformations and syndromes which are again largely unidentifiable until screening occurs or the child is born . |
| 25 | The Melrose stand-off had been stung by comments after both the Irish and French matches that he was not being creative enough and that the boot had become his only attacking weapon . |
| 26 | Mr Sefton said : ‘ It is absolutely vital that Stockton wins because the bid will bring in around £100 million over a five-year period for the regeneration of the town . |
| 27 | And all he gets are these one-liner and bum steers and cheerful shrugs that may or may not be disingenuous . |
| 28 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 29 | That 's difficult because Vaseline melts and slithers everywhere , and it did n't work . |
| 30 | Anomie only offers a plausible account of deviant motivation if the cultural goal of success is as unidimensional as Merton suggests and if the pursuit of this goal is prevalent amongst those with blocked legitimate opportunities . |