Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 41 Local Authority libraries that replied , 24 had automated or were considering automation ; the majority had implemented automation of accessions , cataloguing and circulation , but only 2 had introduced automated systems for ILL . |
| 2 | Only 22 managed to meet this date , but by 1955 a good submission record meant that about half the country 's plans had been approved , and the bulk by the end of the decade . |
| 3 | Many salespeople who , to an outsider , seem naturally quick-witted have developed this skill through careful preparation beforehand , imagining themselves as buyers and thinking of objections that they might raise if they were in such a position . |
| 4 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 5 | Once an infection takes hold it is difficult for antibiotics to destroy all the bacteria , so some survive to start more trouble later . |
| 6 | But of forty-nine ministers in Northern Ireland ( which includes one retired man and three students ) , only six have held elected office , only eleven in total have been office holders in the DUP , and only fifteen in total are members . |
| 7 | Mothers of Maori infants were also significantly younger at their first pregnancy ( χ 2 =216 , df=2 , p<0.001 ) , had had more previous pregnancies ( χ 2 =19 , df=3 , p<0.001 ) , attended antenatal clinic later ( χ 2 =48 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) , and were less likely to have attended antenatal classes ( χ 2 =74 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) ( table II ) . |
| 8 | It seemed so unfair to have faced one trial to prove my innocence , and now to face a kind of drumhead court martial as though I were guilty . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central and a number of other hon. Members asked me why so many have had exceptional leave to remain , as only 24 per cent . |
| 10 | Council officers have a different explanation : it has only one-third its usual tally of accountants because so many have taken voluntary redundancy . |
| 11 | Lord Young felt less able to help increase foreign shareholding limits since the commission was investigating Rolls Royce 's foreign shareholding arrangements . |
| 12 | In short , the appeal of most such ‘ nations ’ and ‘ national movements ’ was the opposite of the nationalism which seeks to bond together those deemed to have common ethnicity , language , culture , historical past , and the rest . |
| 13 | Proposals for social policy work included better in-bureau training for this work , recognition that social policy is sufficiently important to warrant reducing opening hours and the recruitment of volunteers to work specifically and exclusively on social policy work . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're extremely pleased to have won this contract , ’ says Stormy West manager , Paul Wintle . |
| 15 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 16 | There are plenty to choose from , some of which are very clever , and would be exceedingly difficult to reproduce using traditional techniques . |
| 17 | For example , only 11.4 per cent overall favoured factory work , but 21.8 per cent had actually obtained such work , and while 12.5 overall favoured clerical work only 2.6 had obtained such work . |
| 18 | Now how much stronger had become that barrier ! |
| 19 | I 'm somewhat surprised to get asked this question by a youngster , Mr Wyman . |
| 20 | Of the 653 branches only 288 had given definite support to disaffiliation , some by small majorities . |
| 21 | Uncertain and variable wages are a great problem for the people who receive them ; it is not necessarily desirable to appear to legitimise such methods of payment . |
| 22 | Other cells especially sensitive to light became vestigial eyes , and those susceptible to vibrations became hearing organs , and so on . |
| 23 | Evidence is not hard to find to support these assertions . |
| 24 | Is it not all going to take more time ? ’ |
| 25 | The mechanism responsible for mediated generalization does nothing to increase the number or proportion of such elements and thus those wanting to cite mediated generalization as a characteristic of concept formation can assert that , in a very real sense , the similarity of the stimuli has not been changed . |
| 26 | Workers are not able to choose to trade small adjustments in hours worked against take-home pay . |
| 27 | Later , when freedmen had been assimilated into Roman society , there was no longer any need to proclaim Roman identity in this way . |
| 28 | In early December 1989 Malan had stated that the SADF would stop making cross-border raids and that there was no longer any need to support anti-government groups in other countries . |
| 29 | Since there was no longer any need to make diplomatic gestures in the direction of right-wing totalitarianism , Lequerica was replaced at the Foreign Ministry by Alberto Martín Artajo y Alvárez , a man well known and much respected in Catholic circles at home and abroad . |
| 30 | Damage to properties owing to clay shrinkage is most likely to occur following long periods of drought and this condition can be exacerbated by the influence of tree roots or vegetation . |