Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Popular devotion tended to be non-conformist — in contrast to the liturgy ( official devotion ) . |
| 32 | Council officers say the vandalism meant the present exhibition Funny Energy had to be open for restricted hours only . |
| 33 | Council officers say the vandalism has been consistent and meant the present exhibition Funny Energy had to be open for restricted hours only . |
| 34 | That was the artificial cloud kicked up by an army , but no troops threatened the Major 's peaceful rest and so he saw no reason to make undue haste , especially as the roast chicken proved to be excellent . |
| 35 | Inequalities in material life-chances are fundamental ; status differences and differences in political influence tend to be dependent on material life chances . |
| 36 | At time of NME going to press , the situation in the charts was still ongoing , but the MAS campaign seemed to be close to striking its first blow with the new HOLLY JOHNSON single hovering around the Top 100 . |
| 37 | The following story seems to be far-fetched , unreal ; yet it happened . |
| 38 | " The time and space of ordinary experience seem to be continuous . |
| 39 | His real advantage comes from being proficient in all of them at the same time , and this is a much rarer ability . |
| 40 | the parents ' approach to toilet training and methods of managing the enuresis to determine whether the child has had appropriate opportunity to learn to be dry or whether undue stress and anxiety has been generated |
| 41 | Real freedom comes from being true to your real beliefs . |
| 42 | For the first time in a decade the Thatcherite crusade seemed to be faltering , though how permanently it was too early to judge . |
| 43 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 44 | Soon , however , restlessness and some undefined ambition began to be apparent . |
| 45 | The crucial issue seems to be technical abilities , and here the Filipinos score heavily . |
| 46 | The dominant type of station in the early period tended to be long and low , and ‘ picturesque theory ’ condemned such buildings as monotonous . |
| 47 | Individual initiatives by groups of teachers — the graded objectives movement in foreign language teaching ( Harding , Page & Rowell , 1980 ; Clark , 1987 ) , language awareness ( Hawkins , 1984 ; Donmall , 1985 ) , stylistic approaches to teaching literature ( Brumfit & Carter , 1986 ) — have drawn on applied linguistic work , but the overall impact appears to be slight . |
| 48 | A curious feature of the scene is that the worshipping woman seems to be naked apart from an anklet and what may be a sacral knot tied round her neck . |
| 49 | Today Pesci 's personal life continues to be chaotic . |
| 50 | Charles and Diana could no longer pretend their marriage was working and both knew their only chance of future happiness lay in being honest . |
| 51 | Indeed , the typical Greek tended to be backward-looking , since the future appeared to him to be the domain of total uncertainty , his only guide to it being delusive expectation . |
| 52 | He said : ‘ There was a lot of talk about the Premier League going to be right for England , but I do n't think anything changed . |
| 53 | The river and the meadows are really one ecological unit though so the announcement of SSSI status has to be good |
| 54 | The discourse analyst working in the real world has to be able to extract , see as relevant , just those properties of the features of context which are relevant to the particular communicative act which he is describing , and which contribute to the interpretation ( or intended meaning ) of the utterance . |
| 55 | Only in recent years , due to patient work , is its early form beginning to be discernible . |
| 56 | While he can usually be relied upon to offend whichever sacred cows the liberal consensus happens to be grazing , the satirical armoury has shown dismaying signs of fatigue . |
| 57 | But when a building looks a problem to sell , some planning authorities show a dangerous tendency to try to be kind and make encouraging noises that parts of the grounds might be suitable for development . |
| 58 | ‘ The individual worker needs to be able to plan in order to work away at meeting them , ’ he said . |
| 59 | The the options seem to me , as Mr Mr said that the thing had got so convoluted and confused that the simple option seemed to be close it all down and I I would imagine that groups , other than ourselves who 've had people like me in the group who 've said why are this thing coming up again , let's close it down and have done with it . |
| 60 | Ministers as a professional group tend to be averse to data-gathering because they are more people focused than organisation orientated . |