Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 2 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 3 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 4 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 5 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
| 6 | This relates to bias introduced by the use of different observers/interviewers at T 1 and T 2 or simply the same people becoming more skilled/bored , or the researcher may be tempted to use ‘ improved ’ scales of IQ , occupational prestige , etc. , at T 2 . |
| 7 | He makes it clear that both the official guidance and Yeo 's public statements are not supportable in law . |
| 8 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
| 9 | … it seems clear that either the basic subscription should be increased to say £12 so as to recover the cost of four issues of the journal and leave £7 for the lifeboat service , or members should be asked to pay a subscription for the journal . |
| 10 | In the preface , the editor of the catalogue makes it clear that only a representative selection of coins is listed . |
| 11 | Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan . |
| 12 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 13 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 14 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 15 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 16 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 17 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 18 | I believe the agenda for the 90s is rooted in daily life and Postmodernism is in harmony with this and not an autonomous entity . |
| 19 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 20 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 21 | Environmentalists claim that there is insufficient evidence to argue that dioxins are not harmful and therefore the precautionary principle should be enforced , and a ban be placed on all chlorine bleaching . |
| 22 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 23 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 24 | The aim is to stabilise CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 , with a tax equivalent to $10 on a barrel of oil , beginning with an increase of $3 in 1993 and then a further $1 a year until 2000 . |
| 25 | Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts . |
| 26 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 27 | → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model . |
| 28 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 29 | I is however to be repeated every five years up to forty and then every two years for as long as the rating is held , or if there is a hearing loss . |
| 30 | The finish was as accurate as the rest of the Belgians ' efforts had been wayward and suddenly the numerical disadvantage Rangers were working under threatened to be a severe handicap . |