Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | material — the exact meaning of this will depend upon the context , but it suggests something that is not trivial or insubstantial and in a context where quantification is appropriate the starting point is , as a rule , taken to be around 5% of the price ; |
| 2 | As the depth is obviously restricted this form of extraction would take place over a wider area than normal but in a district like this where the overburden is thin this is no real hardship . |
| 3 | Point of Ayr A spokeswoman for British Coal has denied union claims that redundancies at the pit were actually compulsory rather than voluntary because of a lack of options . |
| 4 | Er he wants two two or three coaches for this and that and for a special to Liverpool you see , he 'd need it later that afternoon . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 6 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 7 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 8 | It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion ! |
| 9 | Not so big and showy as on a knitting machine , but there are two metal rods sticking up — enough for any self respecting machine to us as a radio aerial ! |
| 10 | Many unexplained and ignored results still litter the research journals of the early 1970s , unread and unconsidered because as a research paradigm memory transfer is no longer taken seriously ; it had become another victim of scientific fashion , though , unlike McIlwain 's slices , this time probably deservedly . |
| 11 | Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions . |
| 12 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 13 | The overall look is comfortable and traditional but with a light , airy quality . |
| 14 | In the context of stock exchange dealings he suggests that clauses that purport to allow a broker without warning to act as principal rather than agent , are " quite inconsistent with the role of broker and ineffective except against a principal who has assented to the changed relationship on this particular occasion " . |
| 15 | The report explains that because these farms are ‘ deemed too small to appear in the National Farm Business survey ’ , the government funded research into a sample of 500 holding sin 1986 and 1987 and into a sample of 1000 others between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 16 | If you continue deferment , which as a woman you can do until 65 and as a man until 70 , you will earn what are known as ‘ increments ’ and your pension will be bigger when you receive it . |
| 17 | Briefly , this meant the ability to ‘ take his work and leave it ’ : to start and finish the ploughing ; that is , to pen and shut up a furrow and leave every stetch , or parcel of furrows , straight and level and without a wrinkle to mar the whole length of it . |
| 18 | The teacher 's relation with a child is much more intense and long-lasting than for a teacher of a normal child , since they will be together in close contact during a longer period of growth . |
| 19 | The offices of the CDHES were twice raided and bombed and as a consequence , in 1981 , Marianella decided to move the main offices of the CDHES to Mexico City . |
| 20 | He felt that if he waltzed his dancers round and round as in a ballroom he would not be interpreting Chopin 's idealised romantic waltzes for a solo pianist . |
| 21 | The boy was ragged and dirty and for a moment he stood transfixed staring at Hari and Will as though he could n't believe his eyes . |
| 22 | Over one-half of the houses in rural districts of England are owned by their occupiers , whether outright or on a mortgage . |
| 23 | The difference with New Historicism is in a refusal to see the incident or localised concern as symbolic or as a metaphor for larger cultural significances . |
| 24 | Theorizing and debate about law-breaking and law enforcement have been premised on a model of the criminal actor as individual and on a conception of enforcement as practised by a uniformed and public police . |
| 25 | In other words , many mentally ill people were defined as ill because of a breakdown in their social relationships ; drugs might relieve some of the symptomatic tension but help was needed to remedy the causes by encouraging patients to participate in a community that improved the capacity of all its members — patients and therapists — to relate in a meaningful way to one another . |
| 26 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 27 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , stated that she was " deeply disturbed " by the decision , which was denounced by US human rights groups as racist and as a violation of national and international law . |
| 28 | The unpulsed sounds seem to relate to times of heightened excitement , such as during feeding , when stranded or in a state of distress or alarm , or between mother and newborn calf . |
| 29 | The first two are represented in Attaingnant 's collections — Clemens , it is true , by an anonymous and doubtfully authentic piece — as early as 1529 and by a trickle of songs during the next decade . |
| 30 | Subject to paragraph 2 , it is applicable not only to ‘ information ’ or ‘ ideas ’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference , but also to those that offend , shock or disturb . |