Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 2 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 3 | Lison-Tolosana , for example , has shown that suffering imposed by elders on their juniors leads the juniors to take a more or less hostile and reactive view of history ( Lison-Tolosana , 1966 ) . |
| 4 | The self is always a more or less precarious and conflictual construction out of , and compromise between , conflicting and not always conscious desires and experiences , which are born out of the ambivalences and contradictions in human experience and relationships with others . |
| 5 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 6 | These would consist of the twenty-nine English polytechnics , about thirty other local authority colleges , and twenty-nine or so voluntary and direct grant colleges funded directly by the DES . |
| 7 | The sense of " Englishness " that English came to signify was apparently so free of any narrow patriotism or overtly nationalist or imperialist politics that any debate about the meaning of the term itself was deemed unnecessary until quite recently . |
| 8 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 9 | There could , of course , be an entirely new statutory definition either wider or more restricted than existing law . |
| 10 | It is available in 325 gram bags or as 10 or 20 kilogram bales . |
| 11 | Variables are expressed as mean ( SD ) or as median and interquartile range . |
| 12 | Some basins , usually the vanity style , are made from vitreous enamelled steel , acrylic plastic , or even Corian or cultured marble . |
| 13 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 14 | I warrant that I have the unfettered right to authorise the publication of the Work ; that my own and any co-authors ' contributions to the Work are original and contain no libellous defamatory obscene or otherwise unlawful or misleading matter and that all statements therein purporting to be facts are true . |
| 15 | 16.1 The Proprietor warrants that it has the unfettered right to authorise the publication of the Work ; that the Proprietor 's own contributions to the Work are original and contain no libellous defamatory obscene or otherwise unlawful or misleading matter and that all statements therein purporting to the facts are true . |
| 16 | The Authors jointly and severally warrant that the Company has the unfettered right to authorise the publication of the Work ; that the Authors ' own contributions to the Work are original and contain no libellous , defamatory , obscene or otherwise unlawful or misleading matter ; and that all statements therein purporting to be facts are true . |
| 17 | 15.1.1 it has the unfettered right to authorise the publication of the Work ; that the Authors ' own contributions to the Work are original and contain no libellous defamatory obscene or otherwise unlawful or misleading matter and that all statements therein purporting to be facts are true |
| 18 | Some feminist therapy offers a pick-and-mix set of opportunities for women to become more effective , in work and relationships , on the board , at the sink , or wherever personal or social inclination puts them . |
| 19 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 20 | Great damage could be caused to the prospects of the adult education centres , where currently vocational and so-called leisure courses exist happily side by side . |
| 21 | A donatio mortis causa of land is neither more nor less anomalous than any other . |
| 22 | The machinery is , I suppose , neither more nor less wonderful than other sort of modern farm equipment . |
| 23 | It is n't rewriting history to say that the project was a successful one , albeit less spectacular than first thought . |
| 24 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 25 | I believe that only frank and open discussion can reduce the agony and frustration of those like Williams and me who are at the grass roots of the service |
| 26 | It is at least possible that Parliament when the Acts of 1974 and 1976 were passed did not anticipate that so widespread and crippling use as has in fact occurred would be made of sympathetic withdrawals of labour and of secondary blacking and picketing in support of sectional interests able to exercise ‘ industrial muscle . ’ |
| 27 | There was so much on offer that highly selective and incomplete incorporation of course recommendations was common . |
| 28 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 29 | Sea-floor spreading and continental drift were seen as involving these lithospheric plates rather than just oceanic or continental crust . |
| 30 | It also helps to show that more fundamental than any knowledge of objects are certain feelings , needs and desires , and that it is upon a phenomenological elucidation of such feelings , needs and desires that an ontological description of the world must be based . |