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

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1 Only time will tell but at least it is a step in the right direction and certainly in line with the views expressed by Mary Joe Fernandez in a splendidly reasoned and cogent article which she wrote for The New York Times at the end of last year .
2 The desire to ensure that the adult child retains an appropriate degree of independence can be particularly tricky in these circumstances , especially if she or he returns to live in the parents ' home and is dependent upon them for accommodation , child care , emotional support and possibly for money as well .
3 On the Saturday Mum grabbed the opportunity to head for the shops , while the rest of us had an interesting time choosing a tennis racquet for Roland to give to me for my birthday — a generous present and already in use .
4 Plasticine is an old favourite and together with dough provides a useful alternative to clay .
5 I 'll play the odd game for the Harlequins Gentlemen for some exercise and also in charity events , but that is all ’ — PAUL ACKFORD ( former England lock ) on rumours that he might be persuaded to return to the international scene .
6 The relative lack of progress in developing and disseminating models of good practice , including assessment , with older people and their families is a reflection in part of their relatively low status within professional and organizational cultures , not only within social work but also in medicine , education , and academic disciplines .
7 The NCC has identified this habitat as urgently in need of protection since only about 3% remains .
8 It was also concerned with the effect of nationalized industry deficits on public borrowing and hence on inflation and interest rates .
9 For example , if we seek a document on the economic history of Germany and we know that works on history are arranged first by country , then by social process and then by period , it will be easier for us to find this document than if the subdivision was less systematic .
10 To accommodate it on the upflow tube we 've had to trim off another inch or so of piping with the hacksaw .
11 Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy .
12 Fly fishing which is also done in fresh water but sometimes in saltwater .
13 The fact that the college is situated in a campus-like setting alongside two other further education colleges not only reduces the isolation which is characteristic of the great majority of agricultural colleges , but also enables its students to share residential , recreational , and sporting facilities and membership of student societies both with the College of Librarianship and the Aberystwyth College of Further Education and also with University College , Aberystwyth .
14 It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide .
15 Amid the stark , and in places green-hued contours of the half mile or so of cliff and tumbled boulders that is Froggatt , there exists a wealth of entertaining and varied climbing .
16 The figure , which compares with a loss of £112 million in 1991 , is thought to have been topped only by a near-£1.8 billion loss recorded by British Steel while still in state hands in 1979-80 .
17 According to these data , for instance , from the aspect of the viability of the fetus , it is better to have a second child at ages 30–34 than a first child at this age or even at age 24–29 years .
18 The " dress of thought " metaphor retains some appropriacy but only by virtue of an impression , difficult to justify , that the formal tail is wagging the semantic dog .
19 Third , from a methodological perspective , perspective , mentalistic accounts are seen as valid so long as they are closely tied to observations , so that any proposed link between behaviour and underlying knowledge is subject to rigorous scrutiny and ultimately to falsification through additional empirical enquiry ( see Figure 5.1 ) .
20 Leave another yard or so of rope above the bottle .
21 Children described to the interviewers how they had been referred to the library to find information on Inuits and Eskimos in basic studies , Scott of the Antarctic in history , and Alexander Fleming in science , while one child described how : In RE sometimes Miss asks us to go and find out ( like ) some information and also in literacy ( like ) there are some people who write letters backwards and Miss asks us to go back and see if we could find any .
22 A complete task description is impossible and the appropriate preparation for the operator is not in direct training but rather in education/understanding of the system and the way it operates .
23 The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession .
24 The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession .
25 Elderly people can turn to the social worker as well for advice on their financial problems and welfare rights .
26 current storage location of the module version ; that is online LIFESPAN storage , LIFESPAN offline system or only in LIFESPAN hard copy system .
27 Another triumph as well for organiser Lyn David , the lock keeper and recently awarded the British Empire Medal .
28 Incredibly , Muckamore lost out by one run to lowly Cregagh when seemingly in command while Holywood then lost to Carrick , being bowled out for 59 .
29 Later she taught English and History , then , with the advent of her second child , developed a career in English as a Second Language , as a Foreign Language and finally in Adult Literacy .
30 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement .
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