Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment or short-term employment immediately after graduation is largely a reflection of the time that graduates take to find the right openings . |
| 2 | Most of the information on these one.way systems is aimed at the consumer or private viewer rather than firms or businesses . |
| 3 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 4 | Many of them therefore tended to favour the single-party governments produced by two-party-dominated systems of the American or British type rather than coalition governments , however accurately the latter might reflect the " pluralistic and diverse " character of society . |
| 5 | According to the June 11 figures , Balaguer , the candidate of the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , had won 678,268 votes ( 35.7 per cent of votes cast ) , or 25,145 votes more than Bosch , whose total was recorded as 653,123 votes ( 34.4 per cent ) . |
| 6 | I 'll still come back say two or three afternoons here and practice things that I 'm weak on just and er tho tho those sacrifices where I stop until I erm sort of fuel all the ambitions I 've got in the game . |
| 7 | where R , and L refer to the per cent correct score at the right and left ear or visual hemifield respectively and R and L refer to the per cent error score at each ear or hemifield . |
| 8 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 9 | three or four weeks ago before Alan was able to vet all the information . |
| 10 | On a par with their conception of social revolution , the FMLN sees taking power in health as a complex process where organized communities rather than individuals are the most important agents of change and empowerment . |
| 11 | A form of voice reproduction could be built into the on-line or packaged editions so that pronunciations could actually be heard instead of inferred from the phonetic transcription . |
| 12 | Empirical statements concerning spatial and/or temporal order e.g. that x is to the left of y , or above y , or that it precedes yin a time series , etc. — do not involve attribution of certain purely intrinsic properties to x or toy , i.e. properties that might be described as part of their essential description ( qua self-subsistent ontological entities ) . |
| 13 | A sex difference was also noted : males made significantly more left movements than right movements overall while females showed little difference . |
| 14 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 15 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this year more than £1 billion is being spent by the public sector on energy efficiency ? |
| 17 | All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes . |
| 18 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 19 | Mr Newbery puts it rather differently for Britain : cars using city centres at rush hour , he calculates , incur marginal costs more than 100 times higher than cars on the average motorway or country road . |
| 20 | WEAR Valley 's newly-launched Wear Fit Club has attracted more than 3,500 members more than 50pc of its 6,000 target since enrolment started on Monday . |
| 21 | There is evidence that both animals and humans prefer predictable rather than unpredictable reactions even when predictability is obtained from a very unpleasant experience . |
| 22 | Economists using " transaction cost analysis " argue that markets are a more efficient way of allocating resources than bureaucratic hierarchies only when products are relatively standard , and when information on outcomes , risks and associated costs is relatively predictable and known . |
| 23 | The call came through less than five minutes later and Curtis took it . |
| 24 | Intracerebral microdialysis began more than twenty years ago when Delgado sealed the end of Gaddum 's push-pull cannula with a semipermeable membrane , combined it with a multiple electrode , called it a ‘ dialytrode ’ , and stuck it in a monkey brain . |
| 25 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 26 | No I , I went in at half past seven in the morning and I was in the operation theatre before quarter to nine that same morning so that morning was taken up and the afternoon and evening , Chris came in the evening tt and er oh er Bob , th the curate , our former curate , came |
| 27 | Osborne ( 1977 ) observed that young dog-whelks less than 12mm in shell length grew at the same speed , regardless of their habitat of origin , or where they were reared . |
| 28 | The foundation was dissociated from the UK operation more than two years ago after Jansen resigned as chief executive of the Richmond Fellowship UK . |
| 29 | McColgan 's time of 31 minutes 26.11 seconds was nearly half-a-minute outside her British record — and more than 20 seconds slower than Tulu 's . |
| 30 | Ana smiled that lovely smile again and Felipe looked closely at Maggie , a slight smile edging his lips too . |