Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In association with Museums and galleries , it will make it possible to mount new kinds of displays and to make the usually unseen collections accessible . |
| 2 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
| 3 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 4 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 5 | It was a system of recruitment that was to enable the depleted population of Ulthuan to field mighty armies of citizen-soldiers well beyond what the declining population would suggest was possible . |
| 6 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 7 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 8 | All the calculations carried out so far have assumed that it is possible to allocate any number of records to a given address . |
| 9 | It is sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all types of non-meanings regardless of their internal constitution or ontological status . |
| 10 | It is unusual to find documentary evidence earlier than the fifteenth century , and extremely fortunate to find actual details of buildings . |
| 11 | Given the problems explained above , it may be difficult , and in some cases counter-productive to attempt any correction of errors within our system , however initial investigations suggest there may be particular situations where correction can be attempted and is in fact useful to improve recognition rates . |
| 12 | It is commonly assumed that it is impossible to change this state of affairs , but the Guild of Food Writers believes it can be done , and that it is all-important , even vital , to do so , says Claudia Roden , its vice chairman . |
| 13 | In a study describing ten of these children it was possible to identify three groups of children : |
| 14 | It is not hard to find suitable populations of bodies that could give rise to the observed range of crater sizes today — more on this in section 6.4 and in Chapter 8 . |
| 15 | This is in part because , relative to their weight , they consume both more food and larger quantities of fruit , which is more likely to contain significant levels of pesticides . |
| 16 | Change in the 1990s must also be envisaged within the wider context of an integrated and more open European Market , which is likely to cause all manner of stresses and strains to British society and economy . |
| 17 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
| 18 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 19 | You 're not supposed to ask those sort of questions dad . |
| 20 | To reduce them , we are improving our capital efficiency ( the return on every dollar invested ) , increasing our recovery from existing fields and focusing our exploration expenditure more sharply on areas likely to yield substantial volumes of hydrocarbons at low cost . |
| 21 | They 're supposed to cure all sorts of things from poor nerves to hangovers . |
| 22 | Created in Walworth Road , they were based on the assumption that it is possible to bribe one set of electors with money extracted from the pockets of another set . |
| 23 | This would be useful to support quick processing of enquiries . |
| 24 | It may be helpful to attend six meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous to see how close is the identification with acknowledged sufferers . |
| 25 | Thirdly , although some data is collected in relation to gender , it would be helpful to see some interpretation of statements like these : Although ‘ women were more likely to be living alone than men , there were a number of very elderly men living on their own and some of them caused their carers great concern ’ . |
| 26 | The opposition parties , however , were unwilling to accept any programme of economies which did not involve a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 27 | Registers tend to be filled in , often to a pattern , sometimes in advance , whereas actual attendance , particularly in rural areas may be far more sporadic than indicated , while in certain communities ( as with nomads such as the Kenya Turkana or Moslem communities suspicious of the corrupting influence of western schools on their children ) it is not uncommon to find considerable numbers of pupils who are on the roll , but attend sporadically and unwillingly . |
| 28 | It is useful to consider two types of objectives ( Kennedy et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | With this analysis in mind , it is now useful to consider alternative forms of grants in the context of the objectives that underlie the use of intergovernmental grants . |
| 30 | It is also helpful to have some knowledge of trends in publishing . |