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

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1 This paper uses research to demonstrate the meaning and possibility of translation and its typicality within legal practice — a crucial point if it is to be identified as the specific practice and thus theoretically the defining characteristic of lawyers .
2 Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped .
3 Only to be quite honest I pick up some stuff and mainly now the basics we get free .
4 For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws .
5 If you simply want a riding holiday , based on a centre with perhaps some instruction as well then the West Country is a good bet .
6 Knowing the labyrinthine tax laws is essential , as she has to advise clients contesting tax bills at industrial tribunals , the High Court and perhaps even the European Court of Justice .
7 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
8 There is a small stone ‘ seat ’ running the length of both walls , but the most important piece of masonry within the building is a stone slab in the centre of the nave that might be an old tomb or perhaps even the site of an old altar .
9 Semantic syntax and then afterwards the relation between syntax and semantics so I 'm actually going to do some real syntax .
10 I mean since Britten , and then later on Tippet and now Maxwell Davis and Birtwhistle , there is a general respect for English music and quite frequently the Continentals will commission a piece by Birtwhistle or Maxwell Davis now as if they were major composers , and indeed they are of course .
11 The distinctive deep chin cowling , a feature of the PR.XI , along with the enlarged oil tank beneath has been retained in this faithful rebuild and just about the only non-authentic concession made in the rebuild has been the fitting of a standard armour plated framed windscreen instead of the one piece wrap-around frameless example , the latter giving the pilot a somewhat distorted view from the cockpit .
12 On the boat was an old couple and approaching the bridge he got off and left his wife in charge of the boat , He also attempted to open the bridge the wrong way and once again the boat hit the bridge and knocked it off its hinges .
13 Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive .
14 Increasingly however , they will have to look to other institutions , sometimes another school but more often a College of F.E. , to provide specialised courses for their students at set times in the week .
15 The Foreign Office and even more the armed services and intelligence organisations were alarmed at a commitment in the Labour Party election manifesto to reduce spending on defence .
16 During the campaign it was reported that the government had extended voting rights to virtually anyone , wherever they lived , who claimed to have one Croatian parent or even merely an intention of acquiring Croatian citizenship .
17 We studied patients who had coronary arteriography and then later an infarct .
18 I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov .
19 The First World War provided a similar test and again only the Labour and Unionist parties were able to meet it squarely , but the battles of 1912 and 1913 had given advance warning of what was to come .
20 But , assuming we do incorporate such considerations , the tendency is to interpret such mobility as again largely the result of capital 's needs , with workers being uprooted simply to increase their monetary rewards , and capital benefiting as a result .
21 The head estimates that : overall we must have put something like £2000 into the library in terms of pure cash and obviously almost the equivalent in terms of hours of time given .
22 It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie
23 At the site of the accident Pan Gulf developers have erected a large hoarding which obscures the view of the road for oncoming traffic and almost opposite a local resident has placed large stones on the grass verge to prevent vehicles encroaching onto his property .
24 Clare has always had rather more in the way of aristocratic pretensions than Andy , who has that aura of classless broth-of-a-boyhood that usually only the congenitally rich can carry off convincingly .
25 It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path .
26 The salary would base as my basic salary plus commission plus bonuses on a monthly basis and most importantly the promise that because the basic wage was so low , the lowest in the golf industry by your own words , er that there was to be a rise of approximately four thousand in January nineteen ninety four .
27 In a somewhat different sense , involving to some extent the balance of rights between generations , the natural environment of human life and more generally the ‘ quality of life ’ , has become a more prominent issue in relation both to economic development and to population growth , through the rapidly expanding activities of ecology movements .
28 Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes .
29 Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research .
30 These now begin to secrete their characteristic pheromone and once more the army , with its ranks swollen by these new recruits , is stimulated to march off to war .
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