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

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1 For the purposes of this book , however , the wealth and variety of different designs on Greek and Roman coins give the greatest opportunities and indeed difficulties of interpretation .
2 The view of political parties as simply organizations for winning political power is clearly only a caricature .
3 Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time .
4 As soon as he began to march south , German mercenaries and then men from the non-Norman states came to offer their services .
5 Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February .
6 They must be able to cope with aridity , high daily and seasonal temperature ranges , seasonal swings in photoperiod from long days to long nights , and a growing season ranging in length from three to four months on the polar fringes to a few days or even hours in higher latitudes .
7 Mosaic floors , stencilled walls , ornamental cast-iron balustrades and even examples of original carpets have been photographed .
8 Meanwhile , a depreciation of the dollar tends to reduce eurobond issuance , especially for dollar issues , suggesting that depreciation leads to expectations of further falls and hence losses for non-dollar based investors .
9 Okay so this strikes us as a rather eccentric claim er he does qualify it , he says that there may be cases where there are n't enough people of independent means in a country to present themselves , he does n't mean England here he means some of the dependent territories and then members of parliament should be paid compensation rather than a salary .
10 The entertainments team put on lively shows and just hours after arriving at Romantica I agreed to ‘ star ’ in their evening production of the musical ‘ Grease ’ .
11 This can be expressed very physically in the way breasts are now regarded as being for feeding babies rather than for making love , and most couples experience tensions over their sexual relationship in the early months and even years of parenthood .
12 Although many of the assessment centres are expected to be linked to colleges and universities , they are also likely to be set up by private consultants , individual companies and even groups of companies working together .
13 Some later biographies survive of the Pythagoreans who settled in Italy , and these describe the oligarchic governments and even federations of cities which they established , but the details can not be trusted : ‘ saint literature ’ is notoriously fanciful , and these are hellenistic treatises whose authors had ideas of their own about the theory of kingship ; these have probably contaminated the biographical material beyond salvage .
14 The text is embroidered with extracts from Rackham 's letters , contemporary reviews and even details of his financial accounts .
15 Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives .
16 The 1882 act was the first attempt at an effective conservation law in Britain ; it is the father of all the legislation which protects not just ancient monuments and historic buildings but also sites of scientific importance .
17 She brought a tray of preserved oranges and then glasses of araki ( ? ) .
18 But the older MPs from these areas saw these efforts as merely concessions to the Nationalists .
19 Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle .
20 Minerals giving very low intensity emission , such as quartz grains , required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films .
21 In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness .
22 Although by that time an elected parliament had become an influential factor in politics , the arbiter of social status remained the court , with its officialdom of ministers , chamberlains , masters of ceremonies — all nobles and mostly descendants of the oldest families .
23 She hoped for a reply , but dared not hope too much ; she imagined that the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt would have had many replies and perhaps ladies with experience would be far more preferable to a young comparatively inexperienced girl like her .
24 A new report says growing numbers of tenants are facing illegal evictions or even threats of violence .
25 In his report to the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in 1956 Khrushchev branded these two pacts as ‘ not only aggressive military and political alignments but also instruments of enslavement ; a new colonial type form of exploitation of the underdeveloped countries ’ .
26 The disease accelerates so that the times of improvement become no longer measurable improvements but simply times of no further drastic decline ( see Q in fig ii ) … until the next time .
27 The net effect is that not only is there a cut-off of the effective gas-exchange surface area of the gills , but there is also a nutritious breeding ground for yet more parasites and especially bacteria of the Cytophaga — Myxobacteria family leading to gill rot/decay and ultimately fish death .
28 If , indeed , such principles are a feature of children 's attempts to understand adult language , it remains to be seen whether they can be seen as the outcome of earlier developmental processes or , as seems more likely , innate abilities and therefore features of Chomsky 's LAD .
29 The membership of the Research Defence Society includes scientists , clinicians , dentists , veterinary surgeons and also members of the public , who believe that the pressure from the antivivisection movement to stop all animal experiments presents a fundamental threat to progress in biomedical and biological research and in the development of new treatments for diseases .
30 Imperial Russian Stout has a powerful gravity of 1108 degrees and also conditions in the bottle .
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