Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight . |
| 2 | Describing the liberal- minded students as " rowdies and trouble-makers " , he treated their concerns not as a social , political or even intellectual matter of significance , but as a short-term problem of public order . |
| 3 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 4 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
| 5 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 6 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 7 | While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential . |
| 8 | When you have a cup for an eye , almost any vaguely convex , vaguely transparent or even translucent material over its opening will constitute an improvement , because of its slight lens-like properties . |
| 9 | Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely . |
| 10 | Discussions of how the relative strength of States should be evaluated were common , but none of their authors succeeded in finding a clear or universally applicable solution to the problem . |
| 11 | On average , we have an adequate or slightly excessive intake of calories derived from fat and carbohydrate . |
| 12 | The coordinating nurse on each shift ‘ liaises ’ with the admissions office regarding bed availability , and will frequently act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ and ‘ spokesperson ’ for the ward — with the aid of an established ward standard — if the total patient dependency score and staff skill mix ratio is not compatible with maintaining a high or even safe level of patient care . |
| 13 | But , as civil servants have discovered in the past , prosecution under the Official Secrets Act may be brought even where the civil servant ( or the engineer in this case ) is exposing improper or even illegal conduct by the executive . |
| 14 | The probability that a fetus will be aborted appears to increase in a linear or nearly geometric fashion with pregnancy order ( Table A. 12 ) . |
| 15 | This set contains definitive accounts of the Sonatas for Cello , Flue , Oboe , Clarinet & Violin ( provided you do n't mind the occasional rough edge from |Menuhin ) , as well as a spirited and supremely Gallic performance of the Trio for Piano , Oboe and Bassoon ( a splendid very French-sounding beast on this recording ) , the Piano and Wind Sextet and much else besides . |
| 16 | present factual information in a clear and logically structured manner in an increasingly wide range of situations — discriminate between fact and opinion , and between relevance and irrelevance ; |
| 17 | Infertility : Your Questions Answered by Tan and Jacobs ( McGraw Hill , £8.50 ) is a clear and extremely comprehensive guide for couples with fertility problems . |
| 18 | Since its foundation , AMES has been transformed from a small mainly middle-class group to a large popular-based organization , with an increasingly clear and more elaborate analysis of women 's specific oppression . |
| 19 | It gives a clear and very welcome signal to all the people in Northern Ireland of their determination to find a political solution . |
| 20 | This happened most nights and he had grown to think that it was an easier and more interesting way of travelling , particularly as his looks and his load of schoolbooks and his thinness caused people to stop . |
| 21 | The Grid Convertible , when set-up as a notepad , makes for easier and more natural input for note taking at meetings or when standing . |
| 22 | And it is the same logic which attributes those few out of the 120,000 officers who pursue schemes designed to accelerate promotion with the derisory and metaphorically ephemeral classification of ‘ high-flyers ’ or ‘ butterfly boys ’ . |
| 23 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 24 | Moral standards imposed a further and more subtle restriction on women . |
| 25 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
| 26 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |
| 27 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 28 | Whatever the truth of this , this particular school 's proposal document is a remarkably slim and relatively uninformative basis for granting the award . |
| 29 | IN HIS gleeful excoriation of The British Academy of Cricket Manual for Gentlemen and Players in the January WCM , Mark Browning echoes the sentiments of your esteemed Editor , who called the book ‘ … the greatest , the most conspicuous and distinctly unrepeatable load of garbage ever dumped on the cluttered book-market ’ ( WCM Aug 1988 ) , and both reviewers queried the sanity of any reader curious or gullible enough to read it in its entirety . |
| 30 | You might remember him as Simon Booth from Working Week , that brave if ultimately flawed melting-pot of disparate rhythms and cultures , whose anarchic soul was mistaken for jazz revivalism and who ended up being misunderstood by both record company and public alike . |