Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] of [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 | The most widely used techniques of inspection apart from 100% inspection are random sampling , where batches are concerned , or continuous sampling , in mass-production . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Only only certain types of willow tree . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 10 | In non-profit organizations , particularly in Type B , the stewardship accounts provide much more limited measures of performance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 15 | Much more difficult problems of definition arise with creole varieties of English , including creoles of Caribbean origin . |
| 16 | The Outer Isles Fishery Training Scheme operated by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries , and which was , in effect the pilot project for the very much more ambitious schemes of fishery development inaugurated by the Highlands and Islands Development Board , was dependent on funds contributed by the Macaulay ( Rhodesia ) Trust and the Highland Fund . |
| 17 | In addition to the crash tests required by the EC and other legislative bodies , Clio has passed a series of much more severe tests of safety for occupants . |
| 18 | Most agree that measures used in combination provide much more reliable indicators of performance . |
| 19 | Obviously more written statements of policy would help , and this the authors recommend : for both central and local government . |
| 20 | Clearly there is a distinct problem , not so much in the poems , but in the fact that they were written by the same man , they present so clearly different opinions of nature and the role of man , and his enlightenment . |
| 21 | Changes in the grade structures following re-organisation of the general service had repercussions on crewing , some of our friends at HQ had moved on or retired and a harder line was being taken by their replacements towards our hitherto fairly flexible conditions of service . |
| 22 | Where the wrongful conduct of the police is the initiating event , this would seem to justify the citizen in engaging in increasingly spirited acts of resistance . |
| 23 | The less immediately attractive parts of science could be approached through these interests , for instance teaching ‘ forces ’ by beginning with the action of muscles in the human arm , and ‘ light ’ via the dissection of a bull 's eye . |
| 24 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 25 | Indeed , the net result may well be to consume resources without producing any improvement in more important but less readily quantifiable criteria of outcome . |
| 26 | Yet the whole image of Xanadu is the poet 's personal creation , as he connects the practical knowledge of nature that he holds in his conscious mind , with his less readily available powers of creativity which he stores in his subconscious mind . |
| 27 | He considers that it is not necessary to consider the development of combustion technology in this scale because only relatively small quantities of fuel are used on comparison with the number of passenger journeys . |
| 28 | This suggests that only relatively severe cases of endometriosis were diagnosed or reported and that the actual incidence in this population might be greater . |
| 29 | Such species seem to live in very small pools of water which almost dry up during the summer season , and only the fry survive . |
| 30 | In this way , by successive doublings , they managed to evolve a strain of RNA that could self-replicate in very high concentrations of ethidium bromide , 10 times as concentrated as the poison that had inhibited the original ancestral V2 RNA . |