Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Georgiadis said : ‘ This murder has nothing to do with poachers , Ugandans , Somalians , Tanzanians or little green men from Mars … |
| 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 | Greenbaum et al ( 1977 ) put it stronger when they said NAEP was so limited that it has ‘ virtually no capacity to provide the federal government , the lay public , or most educational policymakers with results that are directly useful for decision making ’ . |
| 4 | It is always worth examining the surfaces of fossils like brachiopods or sea urchins to see if the fine matted or delicately branching colonies of bryozoa are preserved on their surfaces — they are easily overlooked . |
| 5 | Many children and teenagers ‘ earn ’ their rides by mucking out , grooming , cleaning tack or perhaps leading beginners in return for the occasional free ride . |
| 6 | Or perhaps different kinds of bats detect obstacles in very different ways , so that the bats used in the experiment were not truly representative . |
| 7 | A variant of this method is the ‘ cool canvass ’ , where only certain groups of people are canvassed , i.e. those who are more likely to buy since they possess some qualifying feature ; for example , only companies over a certain size may be judged viable prospects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Before that , all ‘ gases ’ were considered to be more or less pure samples of air . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The WFS considered all kinds of more or less stable unions as marriages , including " visiting unions " in which the couple do not live together . |
| 14 | Opinion polls are more or less inaccurate measures of voting intentions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dr Rydell points out that this coincides neatly with the bats ' occupation of maternity roosts , most of which are in more or less isolated houses in areas without street lights . |
| 17 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 18 | In Philip Cohen 's research ( 1989b ) white working-class youths in south London expressed more or less sympathetic views on blacks depending on the context and topic of conversation . |
| 19 | In the lower reaches of the forest , then , there is a constant but low level of presentation of a few flowers dealt with by low but more or less constant densities of animals , whereas in the upper layers , the flowers are more conspicuously advertised and draw such animals as birds , which are wider-ranging and with good sight , as well as the local , more stationary pollinators from lower in the forest . |
| 20 | What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek . |
| 21 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 22 | Intuit Inc , Menlo Park , California developer of the Quicken household budgeting program , got its initial public offering of 1.5m shares , 1m of them new , away at $20 a share and plans to use the $19m or so net proceeds for capital expenditure , working capital and product development . |
| 23 | The company will use the $14m or so net proceeds for capital expenditures , debt repayment and working capital . |
| 24 | Superconductor Technologies Inc , developing high temperature superconductor thin film for the magnetic resonance imaging cellular communications and high speed computing markets in Santa Barbara , California got its initial public offering of 1.5m new shares away at $10.00 per share and plans to use the $14m or so net proceeds for research and development , capital equipment , repayment of capital leases and working capital . |
| 25 | The 300 or so remaining tigers in Russia are also being killed . |
| 26 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 27 | Until 1966 , the twelve or so commercial galleries in Cologne were devoted to mainstream , often foreign Modernism ; the impetus for the Art Fair was to create a market in Cologne for avant-garde German and international art . |
| 28 | This also means that the interviewers are relieved of the problem of having to remember what questions are to be asked and , even more , the interviewer is relieved of having to enter the responses after the interview has ended , as in the case when no notes are taken , or only sketchy abbreviations of replies are made during the interview . |
| 29 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 30 | The rational approach would be to say candidly that the question , being legislative , must be settled with the help of the policy implicit in the Act , or by reference to convenience or social requirements or generally accepted principles of fairness . |