Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | AS THE post-mortem into the failed coup in Panama continued yesterday , it emerged that President Bush had approved an order to the US commander in the Canal Zone to remove General Manuel Noriega using covert forces , but the coup fizzled out before the order could be executed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 7 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 8 | And we will continue to support Total Quality Management consultancies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under a new moon a goldfish always points due north . |
| 11 | They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants . |
| 12 | And the man goes sorry mate we do n't do blood . |
| 13 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish . |
| 16 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The commission , headed by the historian Vojtech Mencl , would analyse the reason for the entry of troops and evaluate political developments in the country in the period to 1970 , requesting relevant material from the five Warsaw Pact countries involved . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors . |
| 21 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |
| 22 | Alternatively , it should be possible to disrupt specific DH sites by homologous recombination , as has been recently described for the β-globin LCR ( 69 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Control injections with preimmune serum produced normal embryos . |
| 27 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 28 | Who should treat attempted suicide patients ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |