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 . |