Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 A Period of Incapacity for Work ( PIW ) is formed when there is a spell of 4 or more consecutive days of sickness .
32 It was interesting to note that 84 per cent had had three or more different types of experience .
33 The district judge can order a trial instead of arbitration , if satisfied that a difficult question of law or exceptionally difficult questions of fact are involved , that fraud is alleged , that both parties agree to trial , or that it would be unreasonable to order arbitration in the particular case having regard to the subject matter , the size of any counterclaim , the circumstances of the parties or the interests of other persons likely to be affected by the claim .
34 ‘ Black cases ’ ( the minority ) where comparatively high levels of certainty existed about the probable occurrence of sexual abuse included , by comparison , either denial or admission of wrong-doing ; medical investigation leading to supporting evidence ; police investigation resulting in the perpetrator being charged and by allegations of sexual intercourse .
35 However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical .
36 This is likely to be particularly important in services for people with high levels of dependency , or particularly challenging patterns of behaviour , whose care it is essential to safeguard ’ ( paragraph 3 ) .
37 The local authority , the White Paper concedes , may have to provide for people ‘ with high levels of dependency or particularly challenging patterns of behaviour … ’
38 In particular , to qualify for national assistance ( and hence Community assistance ) a region would need to exhibit one of the following ; a per capita income level below the Community average , more than 20 per cent of the population engaged in agriculture , unemployment more than 20 per cent above the Community average , or particularly high levels of migration .
39 It 's also a natural base for ambitious day cruises along the coast in tough Wayfarer dinghies , or equally ambitious trips by dolmus into the hectic variety of Bodrum .
40 Observational and interview data or developmentally salient aspects of Unit life were collected as supplementary data during a study of the development of children in prison Mother and Baby Units .
41 The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy .
42 Are there examples of children 's work or even commercial prints on display to catch attention ?
43 Edwards denies this is the case , but in the September issue of Climber and Hill Walker , Mark Edwards was reported as having said he would not report any of his new routes ( or indeed whole areas of development ) until they received a second ascent .
44 These feelings may come from a previously held prejudice against speakers of the target language or earlier bad experiences with language in general .
45 More direct indications of function come with small groups of vessels having three solid or horizontally pierced lugs for suspension by a cord or thong ; these were designed primarily as household utensils .
46 A further element of Lele thought illustrates another common principle of cosmological logic or , if you prefer , of religious symbolism : tribal systems of thought , and perhaps all closed or relatively closed systems of belief , tend to exhibit a strong and , as it must seem to some , edifying concern for tidiness .
47 The main role of the National Savings movement is to collect the savings of small or relatively unsophisticated savers in order to finance borrowing by the public sector .
48 There are also indoor pelota courts , called trinquets , which , to the lay eye anyway , can look like royal tennis courts , and where yet other forms of pelota are played , usually professionally ( I well remember , from my youth , that the then world real tennis champion was a Basque , a celebrated player who no doubt grew up democratically playing pelota and then switched easily enough to the very exclusive game of real or royal tennis ) .
49 If it is not calories , it may be fat units or fibre units that are counted , or very exact portions of food .
50 If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal .
51 After ranking , townships were classified as having very low , low , medium , high or very high levels of unemployment and opioid use amongst the young .
52 This ensures that only small quantities of non-solvent are required to precipitate the polymer in method 1 , and that the temperature changes required in method 2 are small .
53 Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale .
54 Another type of evasion would be to create a situation where there was no contract at all , so that only certain liabilities under tort , in accordance with UCTA , s 2 , would remain .
55 It made much of ‘ flexibility ’ but in a way which implied that only certain versions of flexibility were permitted , and it failed to treat the notion of ‘ good practice ’ as the problematic issue it manifestly is .
56 ‘ According to the witnesses we have consulted , it seems likely that the growth expectations set forth in the Second National Plan ( 1954–57 ) were in contradiction to the conventional wisdom at the beginning of the 1950s , which expected that only low rates of growth were possible …
57 It has been shown that only physiological concentrations of insulin c. 30–40 μ U/ml are required for such an effect ( De Fronzo , 1981 ) .
58 Because of the demand for adidas ‘ T ’ Shirts , we have decided that only joint applications for fan club service and subscriptions will be eligible to receive the ‘ T ’ Shirts .
59 O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’
60 It is not simply the extremity of the violence which concerns us : we found it extremely disturbing that highly explicit depictions of mutilation , savagery , menace and humiliation should be presented for the entertainment of an audience in a way that appeared to emphasise the pleasures of sadism .
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