Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also acted to decrease the woman 's coping skills , making her more likely to become depressed or a less sensitive parent when faced with social difficulties or a lack of marital support . |
| 2 | Bibliographic citations , adequate for most commonly used bibliographic packages , in either a free or a tightly structured format ; and , |
| 3 | The intensity of the pink plagioclase stain is proportional to the amount of calcium in the molecule : albite/oligoclase will stain lighter than a more calcic plagioclase . |
| 4 | When one considers that relatively few women were accused , and that a large proportion of the population were children , it is clear that a remarkably high number of adult males , around one in five , were brought before the courts each year . |
| 5 | Its widely available policy leaflet now acknowledges that , ‘ it is clear that a very large part of school biology need not involve dissection ’ whilst warning that students intending careers in the subject ( and in associated areas like dentistry , or human or veterinary science ) will be required to dissect at college or university level . |
| 6 | For some groups , for instance , it is clear that a relatively high income , and the style of consumption which accompanies that , can induce a ‘ middle class ’ self-identification despite having a ‘ manual , occupation . |
| 7 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 8 | It is interesting that a fairly ad-hoc method of transformation ( Test 5 ) is in most respects more successful than division by a prime number . |
| 9 | Despite the much-vaunted claims of Conservative and Labour Members about their faith in competition , it is interesting that a truly radical step to introduce competition into the privatised utilities has yet to come . |
| 10 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 11 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 12 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is a much shorter and a more simple book , written by a well known authoress this century . |
| 13 | " not advisable to adopt the suggestions of the Visitors : the School in its present state works exceedingly well and it is very doubtful if a more extended course of the higher branches of education would be equally beneficial to the great mass of residents in Stockport and its vicinity , who are anxious to avail themselves of the instruction afforded to their children in the School as at present constituted . " |
| 14 | Kolingba 's Military Committee for National Recovery was dissolved in 1985 and a predominantly civilian Council of Ministers was appointed as part of a gradual process of returning the country to civilian rule . |
| 15 | But this was again investigated in 1985 and a less favourable response emerged from the Monopolies and Merger Commission 's Report issued in 1986 . |
| 16 | Despite that , she married Simon Dale , an architect who was losing his sight , a man who was ‘ interesting and different and a very good architect . |
| 17 | Continuing our journey through the centuries we arrive at 1788 and a completely different type of association , linking past and present . |
| 18 | It is doubtful whether a more impressive specimen of mass self-delusion can be produced from any era of recorded history . |
| 19 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
| 20 | While not inevitable , it is however clearly possible that a broadly common position within the hierarchical division of labour forms the basis for a corporate body or social collectivity embracing workers in different enterprises and branches . |
| 21 | First , it is possible that a too narrow definition of comparative costs would be used . |
| 22 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 23 | Of the 102 patients positive for oncogenic human papillomavirus , 80 ( 78% ) had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III or a more severe lesion . |
| 24 | We found that 80/102 ( 78% ) patients positive for oncogenic human papillomavirus had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III or a more severe lesion . |
| 25 | After all , what could be more natural and nutritious than a deliciously sweet grape dried by the sun ? |
| 26 | The figures are broadly similar although a slightly greater number of students is involved in each practice than is the case among Schofield 's group . |
| 27 | In marginal cases , the court will have to be convinced that a substantially limiting disability exists but that , as a result , the individual is not so disabled as to be unable to perform the job in question . |
| 28 | Mrs Holloway says that she 's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline . |
| 29 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 30 | She had her spirit of adventure and desire for romance and excitement fulfilled becoming less superficial and pretentious and a more mature person . |