Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrats aim to encourage a competitive and enterprising economy which is environmentally sustainable , founded on partnership and advanced skills and closely integrated with Europe . |
| 2 | For the historians of the left , Davis concluded , the Ranters are an example of a necessary group , freed by the breakdown of social and political institutions and dynamically prepared to break with tradition . |
| 3 | A market economy constructed around communitarian values and proactively managed is the engine of wealth creation — and the race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own . |
| 4 | The FMS carried out a number of cultural , educational and political activities and also produced a monthly magazine called Fraternity . |
| 5 | He touched her burning forehead with firm , cool hands , put a thermometer between her dry lips and later pulled down her nightgown to tap her bare chest with two fingers of each hand . |
| 6 | Tennis also abandoned the amateur and professional labels and simply called all competitors ‘ players ’ from 1967 . |
| 7 | The health group started to challenge leading politicians from all the political parties and so called experts in the medical field , and it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life . |
| 8 | These three fires are each at different times and well dated by samian burnt in situ and they can be attributed to accident . |
| 9 | It brought to London new work by contemporary French artists and also held lively Saturday night dances which Minton frequently attended . |
| 10 | There has been one undoubted benefit of the cold fusion saga : it has stimulated interactions among scientists from different disciplines and thereby brought together expertise that might otherwise have remained untapped on individual islands . |
| 11 | Copied ad nauseum , Whitfield 's funkrock workouts became a monotonous grind , while Bell 's crisp , quasi-classical arranging was caricatured by lesser talents and eventually reduced to slush . |
| 12 | Continuity and discontinuity are similarly measured and interpreted as essentially cultural phenomena and so discussed in terms of ‘ acculturation ’ . |
| 13 | The fascination of a middle-class man such as A. J. Munby with the hands and the boots of working-class women , or ‘ Walter 's ’ fascination with working-class girls in the anonymous sexual chronicle My Secret Life are signs of the complex sexual meanings that frequently resulted . |
| 14 | Harriet Tubman — 19th Century African-American woman born into slavery who escaped to the Northern Free States and then helped establish The Underground Railroad , a network of abolitionists who aided slaves in escaping bondage . |
| 15 | They would argue that the input should not be segmented into primitive units and then matched against the lexical representation . |
| 16 | Suddenly , from the top of the bank , Buckthorn flung himself headlong into the scuffle , knocked one of the guards flying with a kick from his back legs and then closed with the other . |
| 17 | Maggie saw Hermione shake exasperated shoulders and suddenly feared that she might walk away . |
| 18 | The use of English was thus significantly more restricted in the first generation than in the second generation , who had generally attended British schools and often had a native-like command of British English . |
| 19 | Prohibitions of such appeals in the thirteenth century had often cited for their authority a papal indult of 1231 in which Gregory IX had conceded that the magnates and barons of England should not be summoned in litigation beyond the sea , a privilege subsequently generalized to all the king 's English subjects and soon known as the privilege of England . |
| 20 | A second type of culture is a ‘ process ’ culture , found in insurance , public utilities and heavily regulated firms . |
| 21 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 22 | It 's caught by locals on the high tides and subsequently brought to the hotel at very competitive prices , I do n't seem able to say no to it , ’ says Andrew Baird , head chef at Longueville Manor , St Saviour , Jersey . |
| 23 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 24 | The earliest textile mills were similar to the traditional water-powered flour mills because they consisted of load-bearing masonry external walls and wooden floors held up by timber posts or cast-iron columns and often occupied equally remote rural locations in order to exploit fully the power provided by the rushing streams of narrow Pennine valleys . |
| 25 | The Minister was asked many specific questions about the lessons that were learned from the sell-offs and the asset strippings in England and Wales , which in some cases involved Scottish companies and certainly involved companies that will be engaged in the bids for parts of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 26 | These might be studied by ‘ serious composers ’ , as they would probably yield new and interesting effects if skilfully combined with other instruments such as low flutes , clarinets , etc . |
| 27 | Not many people in the financial world , apart , oddly enough , from chartered accountants , can say they have worked for five different companies and yet remained where they started off . |
| 28 | Whether owners , councillors , mothers , fathers , grandmothers , grandfathers and teachers have liked it or not , many generations of children have found pleasure and excitement in the hills , hollows , derelict buildings and long abandoned mines and mineral workings . |
| 29 | Once again there are different ways in which such data are used , but all share the object of analysing the data anew , using them for different purposes than originally intended . |
| 30 | She went from being childish , not caring for social conventions and so spoilt that she could follow any whim she liked , to realising how nai ‘ 3vely and shameful her ‘ rebellion ’ really was . |