Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If this intercommunication is not properly arranged there will be the familiar symptoms of frustrating reiteration , decisions being misunderstood or being constantly revised , political manoeuvring and even concealment of progress within one or more of the teams .
2 ‘ Adult care workers have a duty of public protection as well protection of children .
3 One is that the background cleavage is greatly reduced by the separation of unbound DNA from the DNA-protein complex pool prior to treatment The second is the so called ‘ caging effect ’ occurring in the gel ( 4 ) which , by increasing the effective concentration of the interacting components , slows their electrophoretic escape after dissociation leading to oriented diffusional search and thus enhancement of the concentration-dependent reassociation reaction .
4 At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) .
5 ‘ It 's very rare we get an application of this nature and unfortunately 80pc of it has been thrown out and lost to the people of Derwentside .
6 An indoor vivarium needs to be supplied with fresh water but also areas of dry land with plenty of cover , and the main problem is hygiene : in high humidity , bacterial disease can break out .
7 I 'm gon na need a pension when I reach the age of sixty , sixty five I recommend that we support this motion and vigorously campaign for pensions for everybody on an equal status .
8 It is not possible to understand this interesting document until it is remembered that it represents a SHARE of sheep taken over and not a public SALE and then fractions of an animal become acceptable .
9 No doubt " and emptiness " adds a further precision or perhaps elaboration to the of line A ; that is to say , to the idea of ignorable non-existence is added that of chaotic absence of form .
10 It is effectively colour-sided , with a broad area of white along the back and tail ( finchback ) which catches the light like a halo , and there is usually a white patch ( not clearly defined ) on each thigh and often areas of white on the brisket and lower legs .
11 Areas to be covered by a common foreign security policy would be decided by consensus by the European Council but thereafter decisions on these issues could be decided by a weighted majority .
12 The industry which has flourished since Classical times at Torre del Greco south of Naples has developed such expertise that even corals of Japanese origin are imported there for fabrication .
13 The finances of the two museums are chalk and cheese , with taxpayers providing a mere 17% of the Met 's annual budget but over 80% of the British Museum 's ( see chart ) .
14 AT Abberton Reservoir on May 9 to cover the final wildfowl count of the 1992/3 season , conditions were still distinctly wintry with a strong and chilling north-easterly wind and squally showers of rain .
15 It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness .
16 In variable resistors of the decade box type of construction , the varying capacitance and possibly inductance of the switching mechanism can be a nuisance .
17 Techniques of scholarly investigation and particularly modes of " literacy " exposition and expression are tied to perceptions of individuals worth , in a manner also quite characteristic of other professions .
18 Paradise is the work of a passionate activist , written at the height of the struggle to win recognition of the disaster from the Japanese establishment and even people in Minamata itself .
19 The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors .
20 The trying climate , the oppression of the enemy , the difference of culture , the loneliness — these all work towards nervous stress and sometimes breakdown for the missionary .
21 Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits .
22 However , there is good precedent for using such methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying altered responsiveness and particularly loss of awareness of hypoglycaemia .
23 This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents .
24 An efficient port transport system is vital to Britain 's economy as trade accounts for nearly 60% of national income and over 90% of all imports and exports pass through the nations ports .
25 Where selective logging is at a low density ( 10 stems per ha ) in Pahang , West Malaysia , infant mortality in all primates is greatly increased , perhaps because of injuries due to the female adults having to make greater leaps from crown to crown across gaps or abandonment in the face of human presence or possibly reduction in available food .
26 He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ .
27 Throughout the war , he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and his appointments included Deputy Director of Pathology in the Central Mediterranean Force and later DDP in South-East Asia .
28 He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply .
29 Any precise quantification in the present muddled state of our economy is an obvious chimera and even approximation to the truth is so occluded by political utterance as itself to become unattainable .
30 The consequence is that Berger and Luckmann and Holzner describe not only human being but also society on the basis of phenomenological introspection ; society is constructed in their description in accord with their image of the ‘ human ’ .
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