Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly some of our breeding birds use one or two alternative sites , perhaps particularly where they are breeding on rather small stretches of water . |
| 2 | Two of these were eventually to become favourites in Church of England hymnals — ‘ He that is down need fear no fall ’ and ‘ Who would true valour see ’ ; the latter , indeed , is now one of the most widely used hymns in funeral services in the Church . |
| 3 | The most widely used techniques of inspection apart from 100% inspection are random sampling , where batches are concerned , or continuous sampling , in mass-production . |
| 4 | It triggered Marr into writing one of his most elegantly moody melodies to date . |
| 5 | A sudden wave of fear that a new world war was in the making found expression not through the LNU — whose recruitment declined sharply during 1933 — but in some rather less disciplined eruptions of protest . |
| 6 | There are a number of types of experiment , but I shall concentrate on only two techniques in order to illustrate how lasers come to the aid of the nuclear physicist . |
| 7 | In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously . |
| 8 | The other two explanations appear to rest on somewhat inchoate versions of learning theory in claiming that teaching quality results from learned knowledge , skill , and other technical expertise acquired through initial training and further professional experience . |
| 9 | Bird song , remnants of snow , prints of small mammals , new-opening leaves , catkins , the first green shoots of bluebells , and badger cubs : all most welcome signs of spring . |
| 10 | There are basically only two types of tea : green and black . |
| 11 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 12 | Only only certain types of willow tree . |
| 13 | In fact , of course , genes and environment interact in highly non-linear ways during development , and attempts to partition the phenotype out into a genetic and an environmental ‘ component ’ are doomed to failure . |
| 14 | A key to this combination is the unique association of emotionality with a social intelligence which has developed along somewhat different lines in man . |
| 15 | On Feb. 12 Farah Aydid had ordered a major attack on his rival 's strongholds in the north of the capital , leaving 16 people dead and 142 injured in only two hours of fighting , according to Western aid workers . |
| 16 | If you 're inside , and you 're standing in only six inches of water , not six feet , and you 've got three or four floorboards floating about , you use one of them as a ram to break the lock or batter the door down . |
| 17 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 18 | Any one of these drawbacks would , on its own , constitute at least a serious irritation , but a combination of all of them , compounded in so many cases by material poverty , becomes well-nigh intolerable . |
| 19 | Through careful negotiation with the client it is important that each stage on the programme is designed to be only approximately ten units of anxiety or difficulty greater than the previous stage . |
| 20 | Effectively , every time the client takes another step on the ladder this becomes the bottom step , only approximately ten units of anxiety off the ground . |
| 21 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |
| 22 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 23 | Both flounder came from the Evening Hill shore mark to ragworm fished in just six feet of water on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line . |
| 24 | Ian Elmore and John Whitwich , from Walsall , were horrified to see dozens of specimen tench and big carp struggling in just ten inches of water when they visited engineering works on the Park Hall stetch of the Rushall Canal near Walsall . |
| 25 | In non-profit organizations , particularly in Type B , the stewardship accounts provide much more limited measures of performance . |
| 26 | A treatment cream will then help you to improve the condition to an acceptable level and I would certainly try all of these methods conscientiously before even considering the much more serious courses of action — injections or surgery . |
| 27 | Obtaining compliance will be as difficult as it always has been , but an international community which has used sanctions to encourage change in southern Africa should be able to tackle the much more serious issues of enforcement associated with climate change and international security . |
| 28 | The move towards much more efficient methods of heating like convector heaters right on through to central heating , so that you could use more just that back parlour where the cooker was that kept the place warm . |
| 29 | True schizophrenias , on the other hand , may not be possible to externalize in the same way because they lack the superego elements present in paranoia and because they represent much more radical breaks with reality . |
| 30 | Both surveys , however , suggested that redundancy , dismissals and even voluntary leaving were much more important reasons for entry into unemployment . |