Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Vulnerable people should be aware that there are some laboratories and practitioners who rely on controversial and unproven procedures … which are not considered by independent observers either to be reliable or to have a scientific basis . ’ |
| 32 | Sometimes close friendships can go wrong or get a bit hurtful . |
| 33 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 34 | Faulty types of gait are : stiff , constrained , too high or dragging the ground , short steps , rocking , swaying , rolling , weaving . |
| 35 | There were stories of Red Guards who shot those who dared to speak Ukrainian in public or to affirm the rights of Ukrainian nationality . |
| 36 | Mihalj Kertes , Zoran Pjanic and Miroslav Djordevic did not campaign , speak in public or produce a manifesto . |
| 37 | I kept the rooms clean and made sure that no-one robbed or attacked the clients . |
| 38 | Such calls are usually of an offensive sexual nature , e.g. heavy breathers and also come under point 3 , but could be offensive in other ways , e.g. telling a woman that her dead husband was having an affair , was homosexual or had a criminal record etc . |
| 39 | This is n't the same as being popular or impressing the bosses . |
| 40 | Call FREE or complete the coupon . |
| 41 | This in turn means that instead of patronising or colonising the community , existing statutory and voluntary agencies are going to have to live with it as an equal ’ . |
| 42 | If members have done something interesting or have a fascinating or unusual hobby and want to tell us about it perhaps letting us borrow a photograph of the member ? ) they are welcome to write — quoting membership number please . |
| 43 | This is partially true , but the motivations for saying ‘ quack ’ , the kind of quack a duck makes , the social message that is being conveyed — fear , alarm , pain , surprise , contentment , ‘ Come here ’ , ‘ Go away ’ , ‘ Look what I 've found ’ — this all requires a mind behind the larynx to make it express or utter the intent and feeling within the duck 's mind , to give the quack the correct inflection and intonation . |
| 44 | For Oxfordshire residents who are registered unemployed or retired the fees are waived for part-time associate study , and from 1988 — 89 part-time degree students will pay only half ( £24 ) the normal rate per credit . |
| 45 | Many of the metals come from countries which are either politically unstable or have a near-monopoly . |
| 46 | In the light of this general conclusion which will be substantiated from Chapter 7 onwards , it becomes clear that sharpening the tools of policy-making and increasing the ‘ expertness ’ of government personnel should no longer be the central concern . |
| 47 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 48 | The code word for locking Germany into the alliance with France is , of course , ‘ Europe ’ , although it is far from clear that using the methods of the 1950s , strengthening the legal structure of the EC , can continue to serve their purpose , since the legal structure itself would inevitably be more and more influenced by Germany . |
| 49 | First , it is clear that putting the National Union of Public Employees , the National and Local Government Officers Association and the Confederation of Health Service Employees back in the driving seat will never solve the problem . |
| 50 | In this case it is quite clear that following the procedure of section [ 7(4) ] a requirement was made . |
| 51 | When independence became assured , further party newspapers appeared as it became clear that owning a newspaper was a necessary part of a successful political campaign : for example , in Nigeria , Azikiwe and his NCNC party controlled ten newspapers in 1959 , while their rivals , Obafemi Awolowo and the Action Group , controlled fourteen . |
| 52 | What about a game of chess — would n't that be more interesting than following a solitary pursuit — or how about gin rummy ? ’ |
| 53 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 54 | Erm , to cut a long story short , if a attractive Fairfax erm , individual enterprise came up , we would be far more interested than taking a stake that was a , just an investment . |
| 55 | SOUNDS : Sadly missed rock 'n' roll weekly that gave a start to half NME 's current glitterati . |
| 56 | Shooting a film is more risky than publishing a paperback . |
| 57 | Others may prefer to continue the addictive process rather than accept the need for personal change which they may perceive to be more painful than continuing the addiction . |
| 58 | THE MOST widely-used test to detect chemicals that can cause cancer in humans is no more reliable than tossing a coin , says Dr David Salsburg , a statistician with a large American drug company . |
| 59 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 60 | It was Rio and the children of a Brazilian shanty town that provided the dramatic black-and-white cover to the October 1992 issue of the 48-page glossy that won the gold award for magazines . |