Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that some anxiety is necessary and normal to perform any task , in coping with anxiety and stress problems clinically we are usually dealing with levels which are too high . |
| 3 | When that failed many activists became demoralized . |
| 4 | Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ? |
| 5 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 6 | It may seem strange to include this chapter , but there are two reasons . |
| 7 | Speakers there included former managing directors of BBC-TV , Sir Paul Fox and Bill Cotton , and Sir Michael , who is due to attend another farewell dinner tonight , hosted by the BBC . |
| 8 | He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him . |
| 9 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 10 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 11 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 12 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 13 | Antrim will certainly vouch for that given that Carey was responsible for two goals and five points in their All Ireland semi-final defeat . |
| 14 | Blake 's own description of his work matches that given many years later by Peter Wright in his book Spycatcher ) . |
| 15 | The result , however , and the second contradiction , was that given this freedom local authorities behaved in a very similar fashion to each other . |
| 16 | The building programme , the largest undertaken this century , provides for the construction of 26 new prisons between 1983 and 1995 , at a total cost of £870 million at current prices . |
| 17 | Even with these forecasts , the programme is the largest undertaken this century . |
| 18 | At that point , we believed that the Bill would be an irrelevance and unnecessary given that prisoners can already be charged with a wide range of criminal offences , including offences under the Public Order Act 1986 . |
| 19 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
| 20 | With knowledge of the particular error , it is possible to implement some correction algorithms . |
| 21 | But an increase in claims , especially against fire and damage to council owned property has forced MMI to suspend all payments of claims . |
| 22 | But he did little to silence those doubters who believe that the blond Australian 's best form is behind him . |
| 23 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 24 | Why should the fact that she 's ill and helpless make any difference ? |
| 25 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |
| 26 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 27 | I am a great fan of Ginny 's but I must admit I was upset to see this picture as Murphy must obviously be in pain . |
| 28 | Now , while it would be rash to claim that cochliomyasis ( infestation with the ‘ screw worm fly ’ ) was never sexually transmitted , like most of the other arthropod-linked disorders , such an occurrence must be exceedingly uncommon . |
| 29 | They know that to compare that game to next Sunday 's contest is to compare chalk and cheese . |
| 30 | Very high storage rates are possible using this type of technology . |