Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , by comparing the percentage of cognate words in two related spoken languages it is possible to estimate fairly accurately the date at which they separated . |
| 2 | Let us suppose that in fact there are not more than 600 quarters , the holders of which are willing to accept as low a price as 35s. ; but that holders of another hundred would be tempted by 36s. ; and holders of yet another three hundred by 37s . |
| 3 | Economically it is sensible to use as high a concentration as possible and dilute on site to the required level but there is some validity in specifying low activity concentration where users consistently ignore dilution instructions . |
| 4 | But , tell me , Captain Owen , what do you expect would be the nature of this information for which you are prepared to pay so high a price ? ’ |
| 5 | And , in view of her theory that anorexics have a poor sense of their own size , weight and proportions in general , it may be interesting to examine more closely the status of the eldest child and more specifically the eldest daughter . |
| 6 | It is possible to define quite accurately the fraction of the time that the motion is turbulent . |
| 7 | It is now possible to identify more easily the place of modernizing and modernist discourses within English studies of the second half of the 1930s . |
| 8 | The theories in academic psychology that might explain this have also become more sophisticated , making it possible to identify more precisely the stage of information processing at which the crucial filtering effect occurs . |
| 9 | All in all , it was a great night — good fun and a chance to meet others in the department that you 'll be lucky to see even once a year ! |
| 10 | The reductions in university places introduced by the Conservative government in the early 1980s are likely to widen even further the gap between the higher and the lower socio-economic groups among the student population . |
| 11 | First within Jerusalem , where three thousand are converted on the day of Pentecost itself ; it would be hard to stress more emphatically the link between the Spirit and mission than by showing such effective evangelism as the result of the reception of the Holy Spirit on that notable day ! |
| 12 | They seemed confused as to what was going on , but were too sleepy to make too loud an objection . |
| 13 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 15 | This has enabled us to construct and continually update probability tables on the acceptability of our terms — we are able to estimate very accurately the number who will leave as we extend our offers . |
| 16 | Such children may not be in fact more intelligent than their schoolmates , but certainly they are able to exploit more fully the intelligence which they do have , and possibly be better-informed . |
| 17 | It may then be able to forecast more clearly the outcome of variations in its product and marketing policies-advertising expenditures ( etc ) in terms of possible sales . |
| 18 | It would be difficult to demonstrate more dramatically the value of Frankish support for a Northumbrian ruler . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment . |
| 20 | Measurement of gastric mucosal leukotrienes in humans after acute dosing with indomethacin and other NSAIDs and investigation of the effects of other inhibitors of 5 lipoxygenase will be necessary to define more precisely the role of leukotrienes in mucosal injury related to NSAIDs . |
| 21 | In the context of the negativity of this formulation , Sartre is obliged to pose once again the problem of whether there can be a totalization , without any independent totalizer or totalizing force such as the dialectic , or whether the structure of negation that he has described means that , as for Adorno or Bakhtin , history does not develop positively but , rather , negatively , and is therefore instead detotalizing : |
| 22 | In a real disease state rather than an artificial provocation , it is necessary to examine very carefully the animal 's disease behaviour and then its response to treatment . |
| 23 | It is necessary to show more precisely the link between ‘ culture conflict ’ and the operation of the legal system ; otherwise the scholar in effect falls back on more subtle restatements of the litigiousness-inappropriate institutions tautology put forth by colonial officials . |
| 24 | It is possible to plot fairly closely the rate at which recruitment of girls increased , once the strike was over . |
| 25 | He was surprised to receive shortly afterwards an invoice from the first agency informing him that his Visa account had been debited for £153 for tickets he did n't know he had bought . |