Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We have found that this sort of discussion requires a certain amount of structure , but a great deal of flexibility , and is best carried out in environments other than our normal working environment .
2 MIDDLESBROUGH , who have appointed former England fly half Alan Old as their first team coach for next season , introduce Scot Duncan McNaughton for their final game at Wharfedale on Saturday .
3 Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pacific Bell unit named Northern Telecom Ltd as its primary vendor for its five-year $650m project to deploy Synchronous Optical Network equipment : the Canadian will supply S/DMS TransportNode OC-3 , OC-12 and OC-48 network equipment to handle local loop and inter-office communications requirements and the equipment will also be incorporated into Pacific Bell 's Asynchronous Transfer Mode broadband network ; the Baby Bell said that the investment in fibre optics and associated electronics advances its plans for a statewide all-digital network .
4 Lawrence Greenough , Richard L. Feigen & Co. , London and New York ( first-time exhibitor and New York-based ) : We decided this year not to do the Maastricht fair because our Old Master stock is not primarily Dutch , and visitors there seem principally interested in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings .
5 ( b ) should be ( b 1 ) : ‘ When you say ‘ This appears white ’ , what you say can not be true unless certain propositions about experiences other than your present ones are true .
6 I 'm sure that he has not said to you that you can do work other than your religious studies at the moment , so that 's what you should be doing but you say he has and we will check it later .
7 We have no explanation for this differential behaviour unless additional factors associated with RNA polymerase other than its five subunits ( α 2 ββ ’ and σ ) might enhance or stabilize open complex formation .
8 So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production .
9 We were both delighted that we got every question correct except one little word .
10 How close were they really , in matters other than their mutual love ?
11 On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other .
12 Stefan was nearly 4 years old when his desperate mother referred herself to the child guidance centre .
13 I was two years old when my younger sister was born .
14 It has set up a Channel Partner programme and signed Emeryville , California-based Basis Inc as its first reseller .
15 After all , how can you make another person happy if your prime concern is your rating from one to ten ?
16 And I believe his motivations would have encompassed things other than his own predicament .
17 This reply raises large issues ; but chapter 5 contains a lengthy argument that if there is any non-inferential knowledge , some of it concerns things other than our sensory states — so why not sheep , for instance ?
18 He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks .
19 It might be very important , for example , that it be settled , and settled decisively , whether and when careless drivers are liable for emotional injury to people other than their immediate victims .
20 Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’
21 To demonstrate non-DNA inheritance , one must show that two fertilized eggs differ in some respect other than their nucleic acids , and that when these eggs develop into adults which in turn produce eggs , those eggs differ in the same respect .
22 A type attribute may be used to distinguish amongst divisions in some respect other than their hierarchic position : the values for this attribute ( as for several others in the TEI scheme ) are not standardized , precisely because no consensus exists , or is likely to exist , as to a typology .
23 Network offers no comment other than its good wishes to both members of staff as they continue their academic careers at Napier University .
24 The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes .
25 With all the changes that have taken place in Abbey National since its historic conversion to plc two years ago , Vos is convinced that customers will have noticed an improvement in the quality of service .
26 It would seem that practically all of the resources which have so far been made available are insufficiently accessible for any users other than their immediate designers .
27 However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality .
28 There were no recognised Departments of Education offering a full initial teaching qualification in any community language ( other than English or Welsh ) at the time of the LITE survey : bilingual school leavers with the determination to promote their language in the British school system could perhaps take a degree by treating their home language as a foreign language where such courses existed , but the available Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) courses could allow them to qualify fully only if they selected a main teaching subject other than their chosen language .
29 How many of our colleagues follow a perspective which involves the promotion of languages other than their own mother tongue ?
30 However , because all the cards bearing messages of sympathy had been removed , exactly who had sent flowers other than his immediate family , and whether there was one from the infamous Kray twins , must remain a mystery to all but the Thompsons themselves .
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