Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 2 | The enemy is wily and therefore the more unlikely a person looks , the more likely he is to be the secret enemy . |
| 3 | Since labour is far and away the most important cost of production in the short run , a reduction in money wages will lower the marginal costs facing the representative firm which , on the assumption of marginal cost pricing , will lead to a fall in the price of output . |
| 4 | ‘ Would like to develop training areas which would help offset the problems of lack of mobility of staff … regretfully none of our posts are supernumerary and hence the problems of removing staff from their work to attend training is a real difficulty ’ … |
| 5 | For example , the incidental take from squid gill-net fisheries by Taiwan and Korea was unreported and therefore an unknown quantity . |
| 6 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 7 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 8 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 9 | The infant 's eye is elastic and so a raised intra-ocular pressure causes the eyeball to enlarge . |
| 10 | Wherever you begin , you 're certain of a pleasant discovery round the next bend and a Fly-Drive package is far and away the most convenient and comfortable way to see all there is to see . |
| 11 | Technically , the inquiry is non-statutory and therefore the Church Commissioners are not bound by its recommendations , but the likelihood is that they will abide by them , as in the case of the village church of St John the Baptist in Avon Dassett . |
| 12 | The mass of the PFM is unknown and therefore the abundances are not to be regarded as the number of atoms per kilogramme of PFM , 20 Ne being arbitrarily placed at 10 22 atoms per kilogramme to facilitate comparison with the graphs for the planets . |
| 13 | And this involves both the right to decide that a breach of the law of nature has taken place , a right to decide what punishment is appropriate and also a right erm to implement this judgment . |
| 14 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 15 | Most changes are minimal and so a further proof is not necessary . |
| 16 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 17 | But if knowledge is relative and ultimately a matter of human constructs , then such work may alter the very boundaries of our disciplines , and indeed help us to overcome the ‘ artificial ’ constraints of compartmentalized knowledge ; and the appropriate label is ‘ interdisciplinary ’ . |
| 18 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 19 | Investors should be aware that these securities are irredeemable and therefore the real return in future years is vulnerable if the UK inflation rate rises again . |
| 20 | Opposite Passengers crowd onto a train in India where the steam trains are legendary and still the dream of travellers . |
| 21 | Some of these Lutheran priests also claim that women 's bodies are impure and so the presence of a woman at the altar would pollute the sacred rites . |
| 22 | The purpose of this project , funded by the ESRC under their ‘ Open Door ’ scheme is to investigate women 's employment in the book publishing industry , an industry in which it is estimated between 50 and 70% of the workforce are female and yet a much smaller proportion of women are employed in senior decision making roles . |
| 23 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 24 | As the rotor moves forward the torque produced by the motor is negative and so the system decelerates until the rotor reaches the position 8=n/3p where the velocity is a minimum . |
| 25 | However the supply voltage must also be increased to maintain the phase current at its rated value when the motor is stationary and consequently a large d.c. power supply is needed . |
| 26 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 27 | Furthermore , that choice is imminent and possibly no further away than the next budget . |
| 28 | In such cases the guesswork about future cash flow is well-informed and thus the risks lower . |
| 29 | Our present structure of central government is far and away the most important feature of the constitution not to emerge from the revolutionary settlement of 1688–1701 . |
| 30 | Dig the soil to the depth of a spade or fork , and clear out the rubbish as you go large stones , glass , china , bottle tops , sticks , wire , plastic and so on — at the same time mixing in a thin layer of rotted garden compost , especially if the soil is shallow and only a few cm ( in ) deep on top of chalk subsoil . |