Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasions , current behaviour is simply a repetition of long-standing family patterns , as for example when there has been marital conflict expressed in physical violence or where a mentally ill son or daughter has had periodic outbursts of physical aggression . |
| 2 | A review of the procedure demands an assessment of whether these objectives are achieved , and , if they are not , a consideration of what reforms of the present procedure are necessary or whether a more radical approach is required . |
| 3 | The extent to which this should be viewed as a utilitarian calculus of some kind , or whether a more dignitarian approach should be pursued is of considerable importance . |
| 4 | For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery . |
| 5 | Jones found that although a reasonably high number of employers thought that qualifications were desirable , less than half thought them to be essential . |
| 6 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 7 | It may therefore be that while a perfectly competitive market composed of producers big enough to benefit fully from economies of scale would be the ideal , something like the existing state of affairs , particularly against a background of merger control and regulation of anti-competitive practices , is the best realisable outcome . |
| 8 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 9 | A nightmare turned into an enjoyable part of our holiday , and although a very good excuse for landing is needed I can certainly recommend the hospitality of our German cousins . |
| 10 | The Synod meets at Westminster , just over the road from the Palace of Westminster , and although a relatively modern institution ( 1970 ) , it has modelled itself on its parliamentary cousins . |
| 11 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 12 | Given also that the Petits violons du roi seem to have performed for ballets even more than the Grands violons did , and because a relatively small ensemble seems more appropriate to a mascarade of this nature , the Petits violons may serve as our model . |
| 13 | I enquired what seemed to be wrong , and after a little embarrassing silence was told that he was suffering from a stoppage of urine . |
| 14 | The results were then analyzed to see where this approach was causing problems and whether a more flexible approach was needed . |
| 15 | To remind the assembly that this is a matter which was raised I think by Mr a couple of years ago and when a very similar motion was accepted by the Board er asking us to raise this matter with the the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland , which we did er we know that there has been attention paid to this by the , the hierarchy . |
| 16 | Also from Sweden , but after a more convoluted adventure , was Rudi Neumark . |
| 17 | As one dresses in the morning one is very conscious of the feel of the clothes on one 's skin , but after a fairly short time one ceases to be aware of the sensation . |
| 18 | But when a particularly sulphurous bath of smuts burns holes in all your clothes while they are on the line , then you will complain . |
| 19 | It may be the only method of ensuring this , as when a completely new requirement arises bearing no relation to current practice in the company . |
| 20 | Approaching the boulder at the entrance , with the delicate layered stones fanning from it , he noticed that the ground seemed blacker than before , as though a very recent fire had been lit . |