Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the mid-1980s , this became increasingly the accepted view of what the Thatcher years had meant for Britain as a society and a polity . |
| 2 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 3 | This conveyed almost the speaking tone of the writer , as he might glance up impishly from one of his colloquies with the carpet . |
| 4 | At the same time the USSR managed to cultivate reasonable neighbourly relations with the Asian CENTO states and used this to dilute further the military cohesiveness of the CENTO Pact . |
| 5 | This digests practically every reported case , and is well arranged and well indexed . |
| 6 | This represents only a small proportion of the structure . |
| 7 | All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs . |
| 8 | This represents quite a significant change because it signals that the authorities were inclined to let market forces have a greater influence on the volume of credit ( and therefore the stock of money ; see Chapter 5 ) as well as the recipients of credit . |
| 9 | Actually , with the exception of Oldham , and 4 home and only 2 away matches , this looks quite a tricky fixture list for them . |
| 10 | Slightly better is to use the test followed by study of the words spelled incorrectly ; but this causes only a marginal improvement . |
| 11 | This illustrates better the total effect of stratification on the boundary layer ( but the reduction of all cases to a single curve is lost ) . |
| 12 | This highlights perhaps the major difference between BR and RENFE in the way the machinery is used and the culture of industrial relations that has grown up around it : the handling of individual grievances . |
| 13 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 14 | This reinforced both a legalistic approach , conscious of conflicts of interest , and pessimism about the results of welfare-orientated admissions to care . |
| 15 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 16 | This can be seen in Fig. 3.13B , where the proportions of mandibles with the ascending ramus totally destroyed are plotted against maxillary damage , and this groups both the tawny owl and snowy owl with the other predator species producing less alteration . |
| 17 | Erm now given , what less than five months er before this May the fourth directive , Mao is still saying that , this marks quite an important shift in policy . |
| 18 | This showed clearly the American concern with economics versus the British concern with preserving a political and strategic position on the airways . |
| 19 | As the medical he describes should take around forty minutes , this forms quite a neat equation . |
| 20 | Once set in motion this requires only the periodic visit to negotiate such matters as price changes . |
| 21 | Other MPs also go on the record on Page 2 to give TODAY an astonishing list of threats that caused some to buckle under . |
| 22 | ( Though in fact she would not have said ‘ lumbered ’ , not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view , but because she was an honourable and exact woman . |
| 23 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |
| 24 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 25 | But it may now be said that , so far from being a depressing conclusion , this states precisely the practical importance of conventionalism for adjudication . |
| 26 | This creates quite a serious problem at shows because he frequently has to be dope-tested after a successful performance . |
| 27 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 28 | Interestingly , in the late 20th century there are no newspaper proprietors listed as members of the Commons : this reflects both the changing role of the press vis-à-vis politics and the changing nature of its ownership . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the average value per transaction has risen steeply since the early 1980s ; this reflects both the increasing size of transactions with customers and the fact that modern intra-market business is typically conducted through deals of high value ( over £4m on average in 1991 ) . |
| 30 | This brought together a powerful nucleus of ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats and strengthened the position of like-minded officials working for reform through various ministries , notably that of justice . |