Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself .
2 It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education .
3 and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council .
4 If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria .
5 As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength .
6 The more light that falls on the eyes , the more the pupils contract to vertical slits ; the less light there is , the more they open up to round , black pools .
7 It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging .
8 Because of the sensitive nature of this service the pre-issuance review is necessary to give additional assurance that the firm policy is adhered to and that the firm 's report is clear and responds to the needs of the client .
9 She 's blond , Sloaney , utterly vacuous and gossips on the phone .
10 Each one is a potential hypnotic and competes for the attention .
11 The increased ionisation along the earth 's lines of magnetic force make them more conductive and leads to an increased current flow with consequent rise in magnetic flux levels .
12 Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes .
13 The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) .
14 My prognosis is extremely grave and follows from the diagnosis , that these are consequences of a divided society .
15 The gallery canopy roof , which adjoins the house , is very old and lies below the house roof .
16 Your call is free and goes to a central advisory unit rather than to your local Social Security office .
17 He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness .
18 Your Maria Cork [ Healthcare , Beckton ] is so helpful , charming and comes to the bank promptly and early .
19 In my view , the existing available protection is adequate and gives to a governmental body all such rights as are necessary in a democratic society for the protection of its governing reputation .
20 He traces the origins of contemporary attitudes to professionalism and public services , to the Victorian period , and argues that the model we have inherited is outmoded and stands in the way of improving professionally relationships .
21 What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history .
22 The entries will be opened on Friday July 31st and proceeds from the successful bid will be donated to the Parkinson 's Disease Society .
23 The great advantage of this approach is that it gets away from picking out odd texts from the bible to ‘ prove ’ one thing or another and asks after the underlying message .
24 His species propagation theorizing itself was accordingly constructed , from the very opening of Notebook B , as an argument that starts with the sexual generation of one individual organism from another and ends with the propagation of one species from another .
25 The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs .
26 Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ?
27 Should languages have diverged sufficiently radically in our evolutionary past , and should cerebral organization have adapted constantly to the need of parsing , it is quite possible that counterexamples to the claim of eventual competence might be found .
28 It is possible that climbs on the subsidiary slabs still remain .
29 Secondly , it is possible that costs in the longer term may be ignored .
30 And you know , the sad thing is there are an awful lot of Chri faith , that mu that that comes under the realm , to my way of thinking , of mind over matter , that 's the power of positive thinking , that is not biblical faith .
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