Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will set up temporary facilities if the building is unable to support normal trading . |
| 2 | A positive correlation was found between glycosylated haemoglobin concentration and the prostacyclin concentration necessary to inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation by 50 per cent . |
| 3 | The strategy included plans ( i ) to develop a new , voluntary nationwide examination system of " American Achievement Tests " in the core subjects of English , mathematics , science , history and geography ; ( ii ) to promote parental choice as to which schools children should attend ; ( iii ) to establish a business-financed , non-profit-making organization to develop non-traditional types of school , which would receive limited federal funding ; and ( iv ) to boost vocational training by encouraging business and labour to devise ( voluntary ) skill standards and " skill certificates " . |
| 4 | One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two . |
| 5 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 6 | And we will continue to support Total Quality Management consultancies . |
| 7 | Taken together , therefore , these new courses and the DMS represent relatively little decline overall in the numbers of students in the maintained sector pursuing post-experience management education in the last few years . |
| 8 | Under a new moon a goldfish always points due north . |
| 9 | And the man goes sorry mate we do n't do blood . |
| 10 | A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " . |
| 11 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 12 | Looking ahead , Dr Ryan expected economic recovery , together with the cutback in production of aircraft and the retirement of old equipment to bring supply and demand back into balance . |
| 13 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 14 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |
| 15 | These observations leave little doubt that daytime photochemistry simultaneously destroys ozone and produces odd hydrogen radicals ( HO and HO 2 ) in the clean , unperturbed marine boundary layer of the Southern Ocean . |
| 16 | During the period 1983-84 to 1989-90 , the scheme assisted 902 projects , disbursed £31.6 million of board funds at constant 1990 prices , and produced total tourism investment of £197.2 million at 1990 prices . |
| 17 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 18 | Who should treat attempted suicide patients ? |
| 19 | Powder Byrne , which offers off-piste skiing courses as add-ons to its hotel and chalet holidays in the Swiss Alps , is a confirmed user , and has hit on the bright idea of recycling some of last winter 's footage as a low-key promotional device . |
| 20 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |
| 21 | Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ? |
| 22 | For my purposes here it is therefore possible to treat political sociology and modern political science together . |
| 23 | During the visit the Vietnamese delegation reportedly received economic advice from a group of Malaysian , Indonesian and South Korean officials . |
| 24 | At bottom I think the question of recovering economic loss is one of policy . |
| 25 | Some of these now strongly argue that evaluation which is initiated and conducted by teachers in response to their own perceived needs and interests has a greater capacity to promote professional development , because the role of teachers is extended but their autonomy is preserved . |
| 26 | Who gets to define , measure and act on quality in the NHS is , according to Pollitt ( 1992 ) , divided up along " tribal " lines reflecting professional demarcation boundaries and struggles for control among competing groups . |
| 27 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |
| 28 | Make regular water changes using conditioned water and occasionally some more ‘ starter ’ |
| 29 | Bake with mushrooms and serve with creamy mashed potato for an easy , delicious comfort meal which can make dinner-party fare , too , for discerning guests . |
| 30 | The controls , he said , would not affect European Community ( EC ) citizens or those from countries which shared a " common destiny , culture , religion and civilization " with France . |