Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tourism , served by some large hotels but mainly bed and breakfast facilities in many croft houses , is of considerable significance . |
| 3 | In October of this year I would like to hold another sale to raise £1,000 for Breast Cancer Research and would like to ask you readers if they would help me once again by donating one item no matter how small , or if they have some spare yarn but not time to knit it up and would like to donate the yarn I have some people who would help me to knit it . |
| 4 | On political union key issues included strengthening the role of the European Parliament and the concept of European citizenship , while the Mitterrand-Kohl joint letter added the wider and more sensitive issues of possible joint security and even defence policies . |
| 5 | Put together with a faith vision of the contemporary social world as inherently secularist and radically subversive of Roman catholic values , the combination is significantly reactionary and ethnocentric . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The main result of the Keynesian theory is that the level of real national income and therefore employment is determined largely by the level of aggregate demand . |
| 8 | There was a close working partnership between them , in governments and in opposition , for fifteen years , but it was untinted by much mutual affection or even comprehension . |
| 9 | Once colleagues and still friends , their similar redbrick-professor-writer lifestyles and largely campus subject-matter have made them a joined personality . |
| 10 | Leese 's ludicrous argument appeared even more bizarre , given his inflexible belief that acquired characteristics could not be inherited and that genetic endowment and not environment , culture or education determined behaviour ; when applied to mankind these ideas led him to criticize Spengler and other nationalists for seeing culture rather than race as determining human action . |
| 11 | Knowing what to expect , as well as what not to expect , from colleagues enables the manager to head-off potential tensions or even group breakdown . |
| 12 | In an eerie reversal of the situation in the North American market , Oracle 's next biggest competitor is n't the plucky standards-hot Sybase but virtually legacy operation Ingres , currently owned by ASK Group . |
| 13 | It is argued that it is the present two-tier education system , as defined by policy and practice , which is the primary disabling factor and not deafness per se . |
| 14 | This curatorial self-consciousness is not only symptomatic of current museological debates but also evidence of the fact that exhibition and gallery display is not solely the concern of the museum professional . |
| 15 | The key factors encouraging gradual absorption and then integration are being identified , while the failure of sectarianism to be completely eradicated looms large in the investigation . |
| 16 | Madge 's argument for the use of participant observation was that the ordinary interview situation is such a highly artificial social situation that both questioner and informant are in false positions . |
| 17 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 18 | The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) . |
| 19 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 20 | An important feature of owner-occupancy in rural areas is that the stock of housing is relatively limited in any given location and hence choice is restricted . |
| 21 | Analyse the amount between payments : for services as director of the company , and for services as director of any subsidiary undertakings while also director of the company for management of the affairs of the group . |
| 22 | Show the total amount paid to or receivable by third parties ( other than connected persons ) for making available the services of any person as a director of the company or any subsidiary undertaking while also director of the company . |
| 23 | The distribution of the data was Gaussian for normal and inflamed squamous oesophagitis and therefore analysis of variance was used to calculate the significance of intergroup distribution compared with intragroup variation to 95% confidence intervals . |
| 24 | In those days , however , Otago were lacking in genuine playing talent while further north Canterbury and then Auckland were passing through golden and successful eras . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 26 | But the application of knowledge drives a new learning curve and strong arguments can be made for using regional funds to develop new technologies in the interests of local economic growth where both industry and the university can benefit . |
| 27 | ‘ Problems range from simple driver error , like forgetting to check the oil , to bad driving habits and even fraud , ’ says Cowie . |
| 28 | Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) . |