Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |
| 2 | The move is part of a programme to improve nursery provision throughout the county six nursery units have opened and work is already underway on another eight due to open in September . |
| 3 | The move is part of a continuing programme to improve nursery provision throughout the county six new nursery units have opened , and work is under way on another eight due to open in September . |
| 4 | Well there 's that awful saying in football Lucy that it 's a funny old game , it often bears the truth . |
| 5 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 6 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 7 | Debbie Scott ( 19 ) , who is now training to be a hairdresser , says her education suffered because of the emotional upset caused by the bullies . |
| 8 | Is that possible to do in training ? |
| 9 | Lumb says it 's because they do n't have a branch there , but we think it 's solid Labour to look at all the blue posters . |
| 10 | Each FOND refers to the members of a family that are present within a file , be it the System or a Font/DA Mover file — also called a Suitcase . |
| 11 | Members of the research and development department , put under the massive strain of trying to turn production over from rock slippers to ‘ rubber craft ’ ( not proving all that popular according to market research anyway ) were dropping like flies . |
| 12 | One line of evidence connecting manual activity and symbolic language processes concerns cases of " signing aphasia " in the deaf This refers to the deficit shown by those individuals who have learned to use their hands to communicate in sign language and subsequently sustain brain damage which impairs this ability . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry this happened for you . ’ |
| 14 | Certainly my bank manager would take a dim view if I were to indulge in widespread massive discounting — margins are not that generous to begin with ! |
| 15 | In the same five years from 1981 to 1986 this amounted to nearly 20,000 . |
| 16 | ( In 1986 this amounted to £10,500 . ) |
| 17 | In 1986 this accounted for nearly 12 per cent of revenue raised by expenditure taxes and 4 per cent of total government revenue ( see Godfrey and Maynard 1988 ) . |
| 18 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 19 | Another piece of what sounds like good news is that the entire Coherent 4.0 consists of six floppy disks and ‘ installs in less than an hour ’ . |
| 20 | I can remember hardly anybody 's names that I served with in the Signal section in eh in Colchester , ca n't even remember the officer 's name , the if people left somewhere erm , south of Colchester in Essex well it was quite quite and eh , he , we use to go out there and play , play a village team football , you know and have a , have a right have a right old do in the evenings . |
| 21 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 22 | There 's no budget provision , and as a consequence approval is being sought for that some to come from the contingency . |
| 23 | Even back then , when the world was connected differently , it had been seven miles by road to the nearest town of any size , and that easier to get to by the river . |
| 24 | There is little further to report on this issue , the Scottish Office have gone quiet . |
| 25 | He is by no means a total social isolate for there are still occasions when work is carried out in groups of two or three , but contact is more desultory and the closely knit relationships developed out of lengthy periods of working side by side have become somewhat attenuated . |
| 26 | right , its almost definite British come under fire but it does seem that the para 's did kill erm out of , out of the thirteen , only one had any I R A links , he was a member of the , the I R A erm , and out of the remaining twelve only three of them might of fired a gun , you know , they leg or the hands , by the side , by the gun |
| 27 | He was as little free to renege on them . |
| 28 | In the standard b -boundary construction , the Riemannian manifold is the bundle of frames over space-time having a positive definite metric induced by the affine connection . |
| 29 | ‘ How medieval that sounds in your mouth . |
| 30 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |