Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 2 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
| 3 | ‘ We will set up temporary facilities if the building is unable to support normal trading . |
| 4 | A positive correlation was found between glycosylated haemoglobin concentration and the prostacyclin concentration necessary to inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation by 50 per cent . |
| 5 | The strategy included plans ( i ) to develop a new , voluntary nationwide examination system of " American Achievement Tests " in the core subjects of English , mathematics , science , history and geography ; ( ii ) to promote parental choice as to which schools children should attend ; ( iii ) to establish a business-financed , non-profit-making organization to develop non-traditional types of school , which would receive limited federal funding ; and ( iv ) to boost vocational training by encouraging business and labour to devise ( voluntary ) skill standards and " skill certificates " . |
| 6 | AS THE post-mortem into the failed coup in Panama continued yesterday , it emerged that President Bush had approved an order to the US commander in the Canal Zone to remove General Manuel Noriega using covert forces , but the coup fizzled out before the order could be executed . |
| 7 | One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two . |
| 8 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 9 | In the year under review he has been involved in 20 seminars , 18 counselling workshops and has undertaken 92 company visits . |
| 10 | But Mr MacSharry , described as being ‘ difficult to get to know ’ , still works extremely hard and plays little . |
| 11 | Since the true wind is so strong , the apparent wind plays little part . |
| 12 | ( ’ Cardinal York' , as he became known , was a fervent believer in the Stuart cause and eventually called himself Henry IX , but plays little further part in the invasion story . ) |
| 13 | Our author is aware of these objections but , even though Christ plays little part in his religious vision , he does find a contemplative exemplar in the gospels in the story of Martha and Mary . |
| 14 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
| 15 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 16 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 17 | True to Reid 's claim that the debate jumped to solutions , we now find that a major response to economic decline and youth unemployment has been the Youth Training Scheme organised through the Manpower Services Commission of the Department of Employment , in which the school sector plays little part . |
| 18 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 19 | Now it 's where the family sit each evening cosy on a rug in the dim smoky light ; like the black house dwellers in the Western Isles preferring the warmth of the hearth to the luxury of space . |
| 20 | Instead of rapidly expanding the ranks of the Party , it threatened , in their view , to reduce them ; instead of bridging the gap between a party dominated by members of the intelligentsia and the working masses , it threatened to institutionalize that gap . |
| 21 | And we will continue to support Total Quality Management consultancies . |
| 22 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |
| 23 | Taken together , therefore , these new courses and the DMS represent relatively little decline overall in the numbers of students in the maintained sector pursuing post-experience management education in the last few years . |
| 24 | Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable . |
| 25 | Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable . |
| 26 | The second volume will include 410 examples of late-Roman and Byzantine glass ( fourth to seventh centuries ) and the third will cover 460 pieces of Roman free-blown glass ( first to third centuries ) . |
| 27 | Under a new moon a goldfish always points due north . |
| 28 | They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants . |
| 29 | She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair . |
| 30 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |