Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , from now on , their religion could itself become a source of prestige , and did so , to the dismay of bishops who , like Eusebius himself , were sometimes inclined to look for less worldly motives for conversion to Christianity . |
| 2 | Significantly , most of them are by Americans , for it is in the American academy that the pressure for change , for constantly new forms of newness , is greatest . |
| 3 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 4 | Theoretical models are constructed to analyse the relationship between the desire for seasonally varying levels of expenditure and the associated pattern in consumer debt and savings . |
| 5 | The oven 's temperature is controlled electronically for highly accurate settings by touch pads up to 250°C . |
| 6 | For another , FSP theory often forms the basis for highly relevant discussions of translation problems and strategies ( see , for example , Hatim , 1984 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ; Hatim and Mason , 1990 ) , and basic familiarity with this approach tends to be taken for granted by those exploring its relevance to translation studies . |
| 7 | What had started with Jones as a search for muon catalysed fusion , then theory on piezonuclear fusion in his paper with van Sieclen and with Palmer as a puzzle about the gases emitting from volcanoes , was now turning into a search for entirely new routes to fusion . |
| 8 | Radicals wanted to see progress towards humankind as the central theme , but conservatives like Owen , worried about the status of the human soul , preferred more complex patterns of development that allowed for entirely new levels of organization to be introduced from time to time . |
| 9 | It became possible to control , if not cure , the symptoms of many psychiatric disorders by the use of drugs , and therefore it was possible to discharge patients after fairly short stays in hospital , continuing their drug therapy , in many cases , as out-patients . |
| 10 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 11 | This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity . |
| 12 | The invisibility of women in the sociology of work is guaranteed by the choice of predominantly masculine jobs in research design . |
| 13 | They concluded that there were a number of rather different sorts of town and city in Britain with dramatically varying levels of high-status jobs , social-welfare and educational provision . |
| 14 | It delineated permitted forms of sexuality , such as those directed towards economically necessary levels of reproduction , and it regulated sexualities which exceeded these limits . |
| 15 | The Mendeleev Table appeared at first sight to conclude the study of the atomic theory by setting a limit to the existence of fundamentally different kinds of matter . |
| 16 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 17 | Reverting now to spatio-temporal relations , the assumption of their irreducibility to monadic predicates is linked with the assumption that they depict an objective order , and if such relations are taken to depict an objective order , then it is clear that we shall have to assume the possibility of a plurality of biographically distinct points of view , occupied by different percipients , before we can make any significant inferences about the ontological distinguishability of their terms . |
| 18 | Apparently forged from a mad mixture of screamingly right-on individuals from West Coast hardcore outfits , Rage Against The Machine are everything millions of moshpit enthusiasts have come to expect from music , only several times better . |
| 19 | The Bush administration responded by prohibiting the use of dead fetal tissues for research of any kind in institutions supported by federal funds . |
| 20 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 21 | Whatever display and interaction techniques are used , it seems clear that a system which aims to satisfy the widely differing needs of widely differing types of user must already incorporate some degree of adaptivity . |
| 22 | There were all these different characters pursuing activities of vastly varying degrees of dodginess . |
| 23 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 24 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 25 | They can encourage the development of entirely new forms of warehousing and distribution reliant on road transport , resulting in further environmental impact . |
| 26 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 27 | And indeed in some cases of conversation , the maintenance of rapport , the sharing of affective territory , the achievement of mutually acceptable states of mind is not the means towards an effective communicative transaction but the very object of the interaction itself . |
| 28 | Guinness uniquely among brewers , has demonstrated the ability and flexibility to form a variety of mutually rewarding partnerships with organisation both inside and outside the brewing industry . |
| 29 | This was the result of the expectations of inadequate and wavering returns , because of gently deteriorating terms of trade between primary products and manufactures , and fear of investing in politically volatile , or potentially volatile , Third World countries . |
| 30 | Its use in other groups of patients is likely to remain controversial , particularly with the introduction of less invasive methods of cholecystectomy , such as minicholecystectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |