Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come .
2 Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately .
3 Under section 40(4) ( a ) a review can be postponed if it is net practicable to carry out a review at that time .
4 I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way .
5 Alexa , who lives with her parents in a village near Maesteg , Mid Glamorgan , is due to carry out a second week of jury service from Monday .
6 They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control .
7 Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative .
8 No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity .
9 Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners .
10 As the National Curriculum is implemented , it will be possible to carry out a check of the curriculum of each school .
11 It is also possible to carry out a search by highlighting a word in your original work , cut and paste sections of the Thesaurus into your document and load the program into a DOS Window in 386 enhanced mode for use with Windows .
12 For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available .
13 Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage .
14 It may be impractical to carry out a stocktake or inspect the plant and machinery ( particularly if the Vendor wishes to keep the transaction confidential from the work force ) .
15 That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own
16 The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones .
17 We were due to try out the show at Farnham , a 400-seater theatre , less than an hour from London .
18 Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained .
19 Therefore the area of the rectangle shown at the bottom of the last page is equal to base x height and the area of the triangle is unc We can now see that to work out the area of any triangle we simply need to remember are unc
20 The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links .
21 Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life .
22 She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies .
23 From this it is possible to work out a recipe for some common ailments .
24 It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile .
25 It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile .
26 Knowing the number of d electrons , it is possible to work out the number of free ion terms by analyzing the microstates ; this process is described in Ref. [ 20 ] .
27 It is almost always possible to find out the answers to basic questions about pay and conditions prior to the interview .
28 Only the exhortation to ‘ all Party organizations ’ on 28 March 1933 to carry out a nation-wide boycott aimed at Jewish businesses , goods , doctors , and lawyers , starting on 1 April , concentrated explicitly on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ .
29 This restates the previous position at common law , that a person who holds himself out as being prepared to carry out a service is expected to exercise a level of skill that could be expected of a reasonably competent member of the relevant trade .
30 After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents .
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