Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Giscard d'Estaing had already warned the Palace about the Romanians ' insatiable pilfering during their recent stay in France , but Palace officials remain discreet about any misdemeanours during the Ceauşescus ' visit . ) |
| 2 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 3 | But in the 1983 and 1987 elections the Conservatives averaged nearly 60 per cent and led Labour by 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent of the votes respectively in the two elections . |
| 4 | Although GEMMs in the aggregate made substantial losses during the years 1987 – 89 , the market as a whole became profitable in 1990 and remained so in 1991 . |
| 5 | do n't want to go , and there 's some who wo n't be able to go due to other commitments . |
| 6 | By concentrating too much on the TNCs ' search for cheap labour , the NIDL fails to connect economic with political and culturalideological transnational practices . |
| 7 | AN ARTIST whose talents lay unused for 20 years headed an exhibition by five women at the weekend . |
| 8 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 9 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 10 | Bayfield says the US business can remain profitable at lower volumes because it now has a reduced cost base . |
| 11 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 12 | An estimated $84,000,000 in further US aid was also delayed due to protracted negotiations with the US government on a " legal assistance accord " to lift Panama 's strict banking secrecy regulations so that investigations could proceed into drug trafficking and " money laundering " . |
| 13 | Publication of this long-awaited new guide has been delayed due to unforeseen production problems , outwith control of the publishers — the Scottish Mountaineering Trust . |
| 14 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 15 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 16 | The scope of tackling these problems , along the existing routes is extremely limited due to physical and and environmental constraints . |
| 17 | Some small-scale surveys suggest that some young girls do indeed become or remain pregnant with this in mind , but the impact at the national level is not known ( see Murphy 1989 ) . |
| 18 | The dog that suddenly goes deaf at 13 years of age will take some time to adjust . |
| 19 | This complementarity was , of course , developed through the massive emigration which the Trans-Siberian made possible from European Russia . |
| 20 | First , as economies grow , rising productivity levels made possible by technological advances allow workers to pass into the next sector . |
| 21 | Other therapeutic optins made possible by percutaneous puncture of the gall bladder include contact dissolution of gall stones with solvents and percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 22 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 23 | Causality irrespective , we argue that many of the competitive innovations made possible by new technology could not be realised in corporate strategy without the simultaneous changes in finance . |
| 24 | Earls Court made a successful return to hosting seated events last year , in a move made possible by new developments in demountable seating and the speed with which they can be constructed and dismantled . |
| 25 | Will the surveillance made possible by modern information technology only apply at the frontiers , or shall we have to live with it in our daily lives ? |
| 26 | More significant though was a displacement into , a condensation within , the homosexual of a whole range of political fears and anxieties made possible by existing and long established representations of homosexuality : |
| 27 | The most humane and ecologically sound management policies , made possible by constant inputs of money from the south , combine elements of Inuit culture with the elements of southern life that are most useful to them . |
| 28 | It concludes by detailing retention issues and suggesting approaches to the issues made possible by this type of media . |
| 29 | 26 April : The Mail on Sunday comments on the calculation that the cosmos will remain habitable for 10 to the power of 76 years . |
| 30 | Nezavisimaya gazeta of Sept. 18 reported that the withdrawal of the Russian regiment stationed in Kishinev [ see p. 39060 ] had been halted due to Moldovan Defence Ministry protests over the removal of military equipment which it claimed should be transferred to the republic . |