Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current and prospective demands upon us for political and military expenditure overseas have already gone far beyond the figure which can , on any hypothesis , be sustained … |
| 2 | These are some of the clearest concerns of God for our lives , running uncontradicted through Old and New Testament alike . |
| 3 | The Oilbar medium is firm but mobile in handling and has a buttery smoothness which allows for delicate or robust application directly onto the painting surface . |
| 4 | Similarly , it is not easy to generalize about the balance between central and local government when services are administered locally , and that between administrators and professionals within a particular service is equally obscure and variable . |
| 5 | Appointments are rarely made on the basis of professional or technical competence alone . |
| 6 | In this respect an important lesson from Allende 's experiment is that the decision to abolish private property inevitably results in the erosion of economic and political freedom also . |
| 7 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 8 | Some farmers , however , did not even attempt this , but preferred to rely upon the application of economic and social discipline alone . |
| 9 | Almost inevitably , the press sought out the centres of political and economic power both as a major definer of the social and political terrain and as a source of information . |
| 10 | The rapid progress towards integration which seemed to be occurring also , in December 1952 , led the Dutch foreign minister to write to his counterparts that the extent of political and military integration currently under consideration should be accompanied by an equally extensive economic integration — in short , by a common market . |
| 11 | Supporters of Croatian and Slovene indpendence blithely state that the Germaninspired EC recognition of the two republics brought the war to a halt in Croatia . |
| 12 | If he gets the job , Lust can be expected to follow German policy and steer the agency towards scientific and technical research rather than commercial projects , such as the development of communications satellites . |
| 13 | Vocally , however , he inhabited a different plane , some Olympian plateau of detached and perfect judgement whence the most trivial phrase descended as a profound statement of intellectual certitude . |
| 14 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 15 | Where appropriate , the extent of binding was determined by scintillation counting of dried gel slices corresponding to the positions of free and bound probe previously located by autoradiography . |
| 16 | An intense campaign of public and private lobbying abroad , by both official and unofficial Soviet representatives , resulted in the June 13 invitation for President Gorbachev to meet leaders of the G-7 group of industrialized countries in London the following month to discuss plans for Soviet economic reform . |
| 17 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , elite and pluralist theories locate power in areas of social and political life very different from those put forward in Marxist accounts . |
| 18 | Whether enforcement agents are concerned with air or water' pollution control , consumer protection , health and safety at work , housing , discrimination , wage and price control , or the many other areas of social and economic life now considered to be the law 's business , writers have observed a style of enforcement which seems to be predominantly conciliatory . |
| 19 | Simple Marxist versions of social and cultural reproduction often elide the bourgeois market with the ‘ ideological apparatus ’ of the bourgeois state . |
| 20 | Indeed in some respects the new technologies of standardized and widely distributed reproduction made certain forms of social and cultural reproduction very much more effective , over a wider range , and in modes distinguishable from direct domination and subordination . |
| 21 | tone your breasts by spraying them with alternate bursts of warm and cold water then smooth on lots of body lotion to keep them looking their best . |
| 22 | Clearly , the homes and household objects that people adopt for purposes of personal and social identity frequently change their nature . |
| 23 | In any case , the majority of senior officials , as well as the Tsar himself , had imbibed from childhood a sense of personal and national honour inextricably bound up with Russia 's military might and international status . |
| 24 | A sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture usually caters for all tastes and pockets and this is no exception . |
| 25 | Likewise , the agencies of central and local government necessarily have a powerful effect , both directly and indirectly , on industrial performance . |
| 26 | The bovine gall bladder model has been studied in our laboratory and we have shown that there are striking similarities in the composition of bovine and human bile apart from cholesterol concentration , which is five times less in cattle compared with human bile ( unpublished data ) . |
| 27 | The sound implementation of realistic costing systems demands the commitment of operational and financial management alike . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A great deal of deep and genuine idealism nevertheless dignified the effort to provide quickly an adequate and free form of secondary education , as an alternative to the existing and enlarged grammar-school provision . |
| 30 | The physical world , seemingly solid to our senses , when reduced to its ultimate is mostly ‘ emptiness ’ or etheric spaces with almost innumerable particles of negative or positive electricity mutually acting or interacting , producing all the existing material phenomena and holding them in a more or less organised state . |