Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will set up temporary facilities if the building is unable to support normal trading . |
| 2 | A positive correlation was found between glycosylated haemoglobin concentration and the prostacyclin concentration necessary to inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation by 50 per cent . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 7 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 8 | And we will continue to support Total Quality Management consultancies . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable . |
| 12 | Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable . |
| 13 | Under a new moon a goldfish always points due north . |
| 14 | They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants . |
| 15 | He goes sorry nothing in here Cor it 's ever so nice though it 's one of them Amstrads with that big bit on the bottom , that square base . |
| 16 | and er he goes , aha the bloke hitting his his brother hits him , and the holograph standing behind him and he 's going he 's going , it 's okay , it 's okay , I 've got you , I 've got , like this and you see him fall backwards , straight through the fucking body and he goes sorry I do n't got you ! |
| 17 | and it says erm we are trying to coll connect your call , please hold the line and then it goes sorry |
| 18 | And the man goes sorry mate we do n't do blood . |
| 19 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 20 | A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " . |
| 21 | The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish . |
| 22 | After lunch in a sheltered spot in the garden she 'd vetoed the idea of going sailing , despite Rune 's assurance that like many Danes he was a competent sportsman on the water , enjoying water-skiing and sailboarding as well as yachting . |
| 23 | The cash would eradicate borrowings , allowing Allied to expand . |
| 24 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 25 | Looking ahead , Dr Ryan expected economic recovery , together with the cutback in production of aircraft and the retirement of old equipment to bring supply and demand back into balance . |
| 26 | The commission , headed by the historian Vojtech Mencl , would analyse the reason for the entry of troops and evaluate political developments in the country in the period to 1970 , requesting relevant material from the five Warsaw Pact countries involved . |
| 27 | ‘ I do hate goddamn junkies , and I especially hate rich goddamn junkies . |
| 28 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 29 | It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors . |
| 30 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |