Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time Christians are committed to caring and compassionate action to help those who are homosexual , and all who suffer from AIDS or any sexually transmitted disease . |
| 2 | ‘ Overt violence or other potentially injurious coercion is not to be used before noninjurious coercion has been exhausted ’ Bernard Berelson ( ex-President of the Population Council ) and Jonathan Lieberson |
| 3 | ( i ) the speeding up of routines which would otherwise be too slow and impractical to be used : this is particularly significant in the area of graphics where large figures can be produced at a good speed and some reasonably large-scale movement becomes possible ( ii ) the addition of extra facilities not generally available in BASIC : for example , different forms of character input instruction , including timing , displaying a pre-stored picture ‘ instantly ’ , and automatic device initialization ( see next section ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It may be that the Institute ought to take a stricter line in future and that more disciplinary action will be taken , ’ said Investigation Committee secretary Gordon Porter . |
| 5 | Occupational risk activities are those involving exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids . |
| 6 | In a truly integrated GIS framework ( Jackson and Mason 1986 ) it is almost certain to be the case that other potentially useful information is available . |
| 7 | In the nine years since your majesty ascended the throne of Annam in 1916 , your kingdom has continued to enjoy the unselfish and benevolent protection of France and it is our sincere hope that this mutually rewarding state of affairs will continue far into the distant future to the benefit of both our peoples . |
| 8 | For most of the time , however , it was as their future queen that this undoubtedly attractive child — Henri II 's ‘ most perfect child ’ — was to enchant everyone in France , apart from Catherine de' Medici . |
| 9 | Second , her refusal of the counterposition of text and reality and determination to see the work of art as a ‘ sensory thing ’ , was simultaneously an insistence that this already overloaded signifier was in fact not very different from a referent . |
| 10 | To the right was a wall-mounted gas-fired incinerator , a row of clothes-hooks , a large wicker laundry-basket and two rather battered cane chairs . |
| 11 | ‘ On behalf of the association I would like to say how much we appreciate all their hard work and this very positive support . |
| 12 | She was full of vigour and indignation and those rather pretty diamond ear-rings swung to and fro . |
| 13 | The University offers a programme of high-level training courses in Hotel and Catering Management ( or Hospitality Management as this vocationally important area is increasingly known ) . |
| 14 | Mozart wrote the part of Ramiro for a castrato , perhaps expecting greater power than Katherine Steffan conveyed , at least until the final aria when this previously rational character loses his cool . |
| 15 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 16 | I have seen him as Grimes many times and never without a sense of embarrassment that this finely sensitive singer should have been asked to adopt a vicious role alien to him . |
| 17 | The minor one is that with the wing and two very heavy jet engines gone we have all that less to lift although I 'm certain we could have lifted the whole lot without trouble . |
| 18 | Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries , in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it seems highly probable that the persisting biochemical abnormalities ( phenylalanine excess or some closely related change ) at least make a substantial contribution to the neurological impairment . |
| 20 | There is the grudging recognition that , as it stands today , the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism and that only limited legitimacy ( and therefore power ) can attach to a second chamber whose membership is largely based on heredity and which has an overwhelming and permanent majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 21 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , realization of ( o ) is much more variable than this very idealized representation implies , although ( as even the small amount of data in table 6.4 suggests ) it is certainly constrained by the factors specified . |
| 23 | Our modes of dress and consequent loss of deference to the rigidities of rank and other previously respected apparatus of the hierarchical system were all influenced . |
| 24 | The first records of plantings are three M. campbellii mollicomata and two very majestic M. veitchii ( campbellii × heptapeta ) . |
| 25 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 26 | 9.12 Licences etc under hand Whilst the Landlord is a limited company or other corporation all licences consents approvals and notices required to be given by the Landlord shall be sufficiently given if given under the hand of a director the secretary or other duly authorised officer of the Landlord [ or the Surveyor on behalf of the Landlord ] Without this provision , the effectiveness of licences and consents granted by the landlord during the term and not under seal could be in doubt . |
| 27 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 28 | Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar , sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather . |
| 29 | That is why the amendment is a far , far better thing than this rather grubby amendment we have before us . |
| 30 | Low coastline and some slightly boggy moorland . |