Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 2 | Deeper hard pans require more drastic operations such as double digging ; in established gardens you may prefer to delay the upheaval until each area affected is due for renewal and replanting . |
| 3 | Nevin , out in the cold for the last year at Goodison , said : ‘ I 'm aiming to create as many goals as possible for Aldo and help take Tranmere into the Premier League . |
| 4 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 5 | The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget . |
| 6 | to maximize commitment to the objectives of the enterprise employees must be told rapidly about all matters that affect them directly , and as soon as possible about matters that affect them less directly . |
| 7 | Freddie knew little about children and held the belief of the uninitiated that every mother doted on her offspring . |
| 8 | They knew little about computers and had bought the discs from another counterfeiter who 's yet to be caught . |
| 9 | They knew little about computers and had bought the discs from another counterfeiter who 's yet to be caught . |
| 10 | Children who tend to be irritable , moody , difficult to manage , and emotional about changes or frustrated will generally react with the most disturbance to the birth . |
| 11 | but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad ! |
| 12 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 13 | The man was too weak for chloroform and had to be held by two of the dispensers , yet he did not utter a groan throughout the operation . |
| 14 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 15 | His discussion is based mainly on the results of field experiments , and he concludes that spiders are limited in numbers by food supplies , yet do not compete with each for food or limit the population sizes of their prey . |
| 16 | She looked just too guilty for words and knew it , and Felipe 's dark eyes flashed to the tray and the still unused tablet . |
| 17 | Second , at each age mortality rates are lower for women as compared with men ( this is considered in more detail below ) . |
| 18 | There was also a short second backstairs admirable for hide-and-seek and making our house a popular place for tea parties , and of course there was a large basement with red tiles on the floor and a splendid old kitchen stove which our Marion kept as highly polished as her good shining face . |
| 19 | I was a bit upset after Wednesday and wanted to show that I could win on my merits . ’ |
| 20 | If if everybody spoke about , the communication was better then it 'd be a lot easier for people that deal with it . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet to come is a Netware client for Unix users that will allow access to Novell Netware LANs — that will be very interesting for users that want better integration between PC LANs and mission critical Unix applications . ’ |
| 22 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 23 | I am careful about fingers when fishing the Don , particularly Ann 's . |
| 24 | If , in the manufacturing problem of Section 9.1 , we specify goals of 25 on revenue ( as above ) , 30 for sales and 12 for exports and apply weighting factors w 1 , w 2 , w 3 > 0 to the resulting criteria , we arrive at P1 : maximise subject to . |
| 25 | We carry the memory of childhood like a photo in a locket , fierce and possessive for pain or calm ; everybody 's past is inviolate , separate , sacrosanct , our heads are different countries with no maps or dictionaries , people walk vast deserts of grief or inhabit walled gardens of joy . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the problem with the Desktop Division , according to Engels , is that its targets were unrealistic for products that have not yet achieved critical mass . |
| 27 | Telephone Leo Kersley on 24995 or Michael Branwell on 639170 for information or write to 17 Old Orchard , Harlow . |
| 28 | We 're always a little doubtful about statements that have to be forced out of witnesses by revealing the extent of our prior information . ’ |
| 29 | confirming their readiness to reinforce security , in particular by adopting effective arms control , disarmament and confidence-building measures ; their willingness not to regard each another as adversaries but to work for a relationship of trust and co-operation ; and accordingly their readiness to consider positively the setting up of appropriate institutional arrangements within the framework of the CSCE ; |
| 30 | Obviously , at the end of her service , she was too old for breeding and stayed with her handler until she died at the age of sixteen . |