Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’ |
| 2 | I would like to suggest that an answer to this question should address broader concerns than simply a desire to make a representation of appearance . |
| 3 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 4 | 5. such work will also help pupils approach the diversity of religious beliefs in an open and non-dogmatic way without succumbing to the relativism which tends to regard different beliefs as just a matter of opinion . |
| 5 | Furthermore , successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control . |
| 6 | CCETSW has outdone SSDs in attracting more resources and has printed more forgettable publications than even the VAT office . |
| 7 | The Labour councils sought to use low fares as both a part of their overall planning policies and a means of redistributing income in favour of lower income groups . |
| 8 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 9 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 10 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 11 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 12 | But beyond that , Halifax emerges from these friendly pages as just the cold , compromising nobleman of legend . |
| 13 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 14 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 15 | Even those who saw the extension of Moscow 's control over her eastern European neighbours as primarily a response to American expansion objected to the oppressive form of Soviet rule . |
| 16 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 17 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 18 | By this means of marketing , Stoddard regard all the European and Scandinavian markets as merely an extension of the home market as far as pricing , selling and marketing are concerned . |
| 19 | It 's a shame that the word ‘ refined ’ has acquired prissy connotations because both the shop and the stock of London 's newest lingerie outlet is refined in the best possible sense of the word . |
| 20 | There are very pressured days , says Jackie , when she has several visits as well a clinic , when she goes up every front path praying both mum and babe will be problem-free . |
| 21 | It was four hours before even the body could be removed . |
| 22 | Though there are many disadvantages as well as advantages in the use of microcomputers for information retrieval , the major advantage is that computerized information retrieval can provide a strong link between the school library and the curriculum by increasing pupils ' exposure to new technologies as both a learning and retrieval tool , regardless of subject area , and increase the use of resources in the school . |
| 23 | For other plants where either the proportion of leaves to total biomass is not constant ( e.g. maize ) or the leaves are a smaller proportion of the biomass ( e.g. shrubs ) such a relationship may not exist . |
| 24 | The time for defence is then extended to four days after either the Crown gives notice to the court and to the plaintiff that it is satisfied with the information given , or the court decides that no further information is required . |
| 25 | In other figures where both the bust and the head are expanded in this exaggerated way , the neck clearly presented a problem : by nature a slender form , it must now be used to connect convincingly two abnormally heavy masses . |
| 26 | Such ‘ constant routines ’ remove all external rhythms since both the environment and the life-style of the individuals have been constant throughout the 24 hours . |
| 27 | Its wrong to draw similarities with other situations because here the manager wanted to keep him . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , in deciding to build a new school there will be other departments than just the education department involved . |
| 29 | The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning . |