Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age . |
| 2 | The pattern , which continued into the last quarter of 1991 , was one of large periodic issues by tender or by auction and frequent and usually small issues of tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 3 | There are 5–6 oral papillae and 5 or more supplementary papillae . |
| 4 | Smells , so often the reason for disinfection , are more appropriately dealt with by improving ventilation , remedial maintenance if necessary and more effective cleaning . |
| 5 | The most important fact to remember is that it is highly contagious and one case can very easily develop into a large outbreak unless prompt and very strict isolation of any case is done . |
| 6 | Mediaeval herbals contain references to lavender water and many methods of using essential oils , even though some of the moralists and religious leaders regarded the practice as frivolous and even immoral . |
| 7 | My suggestion is that impartiality of one type or another and perhaps other qualities of decision-makers might be the basis for regarding the law as a locus of moral authority . |
| 8 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 9 | Cold and inexorable and wholly irresistible . |
| 10 | Following several years of development work and unsuccessful but nevertheless promising trials in late 1905 and early 1906 , he won the support of John ( later first Earl ) Jellicoe , ( Sir ) Percy Scott , and Sir John ( later first Baron ) Fisher [ qq.v. ] , which resulted in the establishment of an agreement to perfect the civilian inventor 's ideas for a mechanical system of using observed ranges and bearings to calculate firing solutions for naval artillery that would take account of the relative motion of the firing ship and target . |
| 11 | The shift in the labour pattern significantly reduced the tensions between the European and non-European and largely unskilled Jewish elements in Israel which during the 1960s was becoming a serious social and political issue since the latter grew faster demographically than the former . |
| 12 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 13 | Now they are having to change their attitude as more and more public school kids rifle shops in London 's Kings Road and South Molton Street for the best in designer gear Because of their rich clientele , the shops have not previously used the tags and electronic security systems used in high street stores to protect themselves against the £1.5 billion-worth of goods lost through shoplifting each year But designer clothes are attracting designer thieves . |
| 14 | It we further remark the way sexual difference is oft en presented within psychoanalysis as unavoidable and ineluctably fraught with pain , so much so in some cases that it warrants description as a tragic ontology , it becomes tempting to dismiss it as an expression of existential Angst suitably dressed in pretentious intellectual rigour and elegant abstraction , and , as such ( some might add ) , the epitome of psychoanalysis itself . |
| 15 | Stephen Spender divides writers into ‘ contemporaries ’ and ‘ moderns ’ ( 1962:555 ) ; Malcolm Bradbury distinguishes between the main current of fiction and peripheral but nevertheless important work by people like Samuel Beckett , Malcolm Lowry , William Golding , and Lawrence Durrell ( 1973 ) ; and Iris Murdoch draws a distinction between the ‘ journalistic ’ and the ‘ crystalline ’ which delineates similar categories . |
| 16 | The panel will consist of a chairman and two or more additional people who are there because they have a particular area of expertise or responsibility . |
| 17 | In the context of civil proceedings , international judicial assistance is primarily concerned with the service of documents , ‘ process ’ of one sort or another but also extrajudicial documents of significance , and the taking of evidence ; post-trial assistance , in the form of the enforcement of judgments and orders , is traditionally treated as a ( major ) topic in its own right . |
| 18 | Inside the college at Lincoln the students thought that this teacher was a fine teacher and fun but too odd to be offered responsibilities ; and outside the college were a plethora of people who were not the university of Cambridge , anxious to offer every variety of job , pastoral , academic , or administrative . |
| 19 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 20 | A similar contrast exists today in the cryptogamic flora of Lewis and the Uists , with several warmth-demanding species of shaded rocks and ravines ( e.g. Dryopteris aemula , Marchesinia mackaii , Lophocolea fragrans , Jubula hutchinsiae ) being present in the Uists but absent or very rare in Lewis . |
| 21 | It is a middle-horned breed : the bull 's horns are thick and grow horizontally and sideways from the poll , while cows display finer , gently curved horns somewhat similar in style of growth to those of the Longhorns but shorter and more balanced , though occasionally one horn grows in a different direction to the other . |
| 22 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 23 | As you become more familiar with the subject , after repeated reviews , data can be found and appreciated if you have made the pages of your textbooks as individual and readily recognisable as the pages of your notes . |
| 24 | On the British part , the staff regarded Arab customs as weird and slightly annoying . |
| 25 | Matthew Arnold refers to Horace 's " allusive and compressed manner " ( In his essay " On translating Homer " ; actually with reference to in Odes , iv , ) Gladstone ( 1894 : v ) mentions " the necessity of compression " as the particular object of his own translations — which are in places as uncompressed and haplessly spongy as anyone else 's . |
| 26 | The general pattern was similar to the Alps in an average year : a few days of afternoon cloud and snowstorms , followed by a day or two or more settled conditions . |
| 27 | The aims of education or complex and sometimes contradictory . |
| 28 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 29 | Josselin himself does not emerge from his diary as lovable or even endearing . |
| 30 | When any one of them occurs , the teacher and the parent are likely to experience each other 's behaviour as inappropriate and hence strange and uncooperative , and both may leave the encounter bewildered and disappointed . |