Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roots of disillusionment — in so far as they were the fruit of twelfth-century conditions and not merely the natural response to too high or too vaguely expressed expectations — lay in the intellectuals ' belief , stated by John of Salisbury . |
| 2 | But such efforts touched few and generally better paid workers . |
| 3 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
| 4 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 5 | In larger , less homogeneous and more densely populated countries , such as France or the UK , the task of identifying areas qualifying for assistance is more complex . |
| 6 | This is because the British Boxing Board of Control ( BBBC ) , the governing body of the sport , was not formed until 1929 and quite openly barred non-whites from challenging for British titles until 1948 . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he says , opening the cigarette case to reveal a dozen or so neatly rolled spliffs . |
| 8 | One of the most important results to have come out of the work is the demonstration that similar molecular those in other larger and more conventionally studied organisms . |
| 9 | In general , relatively simple compounds , such as short chain hydrocarbons , alcohols , phenols and other small molecules , are relatively easy to degrade , while larger and more highly substituted compounds are more difficult . |
| 10 | This is one of the loveliest and most beautifully told stories in the Old Testament . |
| 11 | The counties were always liable as they grew , therefore , to lose their most populous and most highly rated areas to new or expanded county boroughs . |
| 12 | In some cases it is possible for a district to be equated with a large town , but in other cases a desire for districts to be larger has produced curious and often locally resented combinations . |
| 13 | The experimental research just described has given substance , in several respects , to some older or less empirically based ideas about psychosis and creativity . |
| 14 | However , having made the above comment , it must be stated that in the early 1980s the external debt situation of some LDCs made banks more cautious in their dealings with smaller and less well known banks and financial centres . |
| 15 | Digital DNA typing will be able to test even older , smaller and less well preserved samples . |
| 16 | These essential contacts with other departments meant insufficient time for equally important but less clearly defined contacts with the research and development group . |
| 17 | And blinked and looked again , for the felling of living Trees , the cutting and slicing and mutilating of Trees which had not died and dried and seasoned naturally , was one of the oldest and most strictly forbidden practices in Ireland . |
| 18 | This is one of the richest and most easily found sources of vitamin E , sometimes called ‘ the fertility vitamin ’ . |
| 19 | English , for Hirsch , is basically to do with educational and cultural values , helping ‘ to provide the myths and values we live by ’ , rather than generating ever new and more narrowly directed interpretations . |
| 20 | In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors . |
| 21 | Very recently , discoveries of some new and very well preserved thelodonts from the Silurian of British Columbia were announced . |
| 22 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 23 | The immense amount of detailed experimental and theoretical work done on the equations often allows these new developments to be seen in a fuller context than is possible with newer and less well understood systems . |