Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although taxation was a common reason for convening representative members , it was by no means the only reason for doing so ; nor was it , in proportion to the time spent on it , the principal or most demanding business of parliament . |
| 2 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 3 | Many children and teenagers ‘ earn ’ their rides by mucking out , grooming , cleaning tack or perhaps leading beginners in return for the occasional free ride . |
| 4 | Abrashes are usually found in monadic and village items , where only small amounts of yarn can be dyed at any one time , and are not a sign of inadequate craftsmanship . |
| 5 | Before that , all ‘ gases ’ were considered to be more or less pure samples of air . |
| 6 | Any tutors wishing to present their students with a more or less logical progression from year one to year seven , have to contend with the awkward fact that in the summer term the examination classes are only in attend for their examinations . |
| 7 | In order to arrive at the answers , it is necessary to go through a more or less logical process of analysis , based on market research — whether published , or commissioned by the client , or ( occasionally ) commissioned by the agency — and on knowledge and experience . |
| 8 | Those car firms that build a more or less complete organisation for manufacturing , supply and design in America and Europe will be most likely to do well . |
| 9 | In our old age we have found a more or less peaceful form of co-existence . |
| 10 | The former is that more or less subconscious attitude to sedimentation which still seems to be held by many ( if not most ) stratigraphers , though not by students of Recent sediments . |
| 11 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 12 | The network of person-to-person relationships formula thus refers to sets of rights and duties which find expression in more or less predictable patterns of behaviour . |
| 13 | Even poetry would not address such matters except in the more or less orthodox , more or less devotional form of Paradise Lost . |
| 14 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 15 | Anthropological textbooks , along with the arrangement of the university syllabus , usually give the impression that an alien way of life can always be analysed according to a more or less standard set of chapter headings which divide up the total field into sub-sections denoted by the English language words : economics , kinship , politics , law , religion , magic , myth , ritual . |
| 16 | The result of these was that the areas covered by the ice and adjacent to the margins of the ice sheets experienced more or less regular successions of climate , ranging from glacial through periglacial to humid temperate in the glaciated areas and from periglacial to humid temperate in areas near the ice sheets . |
| 17 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |
| 18 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 19 | First , there may be a more or less continuous emission of steam and other vapours , not carrying much solid material , which forms a white column rather like the plume above a power-station cooling tower . |
| 20 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 21 | The bees somehow convert the soup of rotten meat they 've collected into a more or less stable paste for storage in the nest cells . |
| 22 | Opinion polls are more or less inaccurate measures of voting intentions . |
| 23 | There was , it seems clear , much deliberate or subliminal exclusion of the treatment of the Jews from popular consciousness — a more or less studied lack of interest or cultivated disinterest , going hand in hand with an accentuated ‘ retreat into the private sphere ’ and increased self-centredness in difficult and worrying wartime conditions . |
| 24 | Only political units which were small and remote from the international conflicts which agitated the greater powers , as were the Swiss cantons and some of the city-states of Germany and Italy , could hope to dispense permanently with some more or less effective form of kingship . |
| 25 | British liberal political thought , hitherto contenting itself with a more or less straightforward advocacy of laissez-faire non-interventionist policies , began to transform itself into what has been called " social liberalism " . |
| 26 | Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] . |
| 27 | A recent specialist Soviet study on Southeast Asia argued that the term ‘ neutralisation ’ as distinct from the related terms ‘ neutrality ’ and ‘ neutralism ’ contained the idea of activity over a more or less defined period of time ; it implied a process of gradual and progressive development . |
| 28 | The changed nature of business — the shift to corporate organization and the break between the location and ownership of industry — means that old , more or less direct methods of incorporation on the Victorian model can not be sustained or renewed . |
| 29 | He 'd more or less stopped thinking about money ; he 'd stopped thinking about ordinary living . |
| 30 | In practice , much academic interpretation — whether New Critical , archetypal , deconstructive , or whatever — is really , in his terms , a more or less refined form of description or ‘ scansion ’ . |