Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 |
| 4 | It demanded interest and commitment on the part of the workers to try and set up respite fostering or other more integrated arrangements as an alternative . |
| 5 | ( 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 ) . |
| 6 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | But amygdalin reacts with an enzyme in the almond to produce glucose and two very characteristic compounds , benzaldehyde and prussic acid . |
| 9 | The decline in gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases in the mid-1980s may have been due to safer sex practices after health education through the mass media and various other local activities . |
| 10 | Occupational risk activities are those involving exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( In ref. 2 spatial arrays were briefly explored , but with a focus on the interplay among tit-for-tat and other explicitly memory-laden strategies in iterated encounters ; the interest was in spatial generalizations of earlier results , such as ‘ if a [ strategy ] is collectively stable , it is territorially stable ’ . ) |
| 13 | ‘ On behalf of the association I would like to say how much we appreciate all their hard work and this very positive support . |
| 14 | HNCs and HNDs in areas such as hospitality management , hospitality operations , food and beverage management and other more specialised areas are now available . |
| 15 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 16 | first , the definition of infanticide is limited to the killing of the child most recently born , which means that when a mother in a disturbed state kills both her last-born child and another slightly older child , the one killing is infanticide and the other may be murder , whereas the defendant 's culpability is surely the same in both cases . |
| 17 | She was full of vigour and indignation and those rather pretty diamond ear-rings swung to and fro . |
| 18 | The alternative will be not just that the situation is a mess but that perfectly respectable stores will continue to be forced to break a stupid and outdated law . |
| 19 | You know , with jewels and silver things in their hair and some really great shoes . |
| 20 | The problem of social role One particular difficulty which is liable to beset participant observation studies was touched on in the previous paragraph ; it concerns the social role allocated to the fieldworker as a consequence of his or her age , sex , ethnicity or other socially significant attributes . |
| 21 | At least three years appropriate full-time employment within the industry and successful completion of a vocationally relevant course of one year 's full-time duration or part-time over 2 years . |
| 22 | The same analyses that have undermined rehabilitation have also undermined some classical deterrent assumptions : the evidence does not suggest that more punishment automatically provides more deterrence or that more serious crimes necessarily require more punishment to deter them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As this observation suggests , combined or separate attacks from dry rot and other less voracious fungi are common in neglected and decaying buildings . |
| 25 | Thankfully , they do n't press the wah-wah pedal too hard , opting instead for a frothy , tumbling spiral of sound and some trippily mesmeric highlights . |
| 26 | Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries , in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac . |
| 27 | Some measurements of clover were made , some in a growth room and some under ordinary conditions , with controlled temperature but not humidity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The thing is we did it right , we did it in the nappy , then we fucking put him spread-eagled on a bench and me mate ran off to get the shaving kit stuff and this fucking this people who 's erm , looking wom , girls in there and everything , real fucking pissed up |
| 30 | Mrs Peterson and the others have told me of the delicacies baked and brought with love , from kitchens in Comely Bank , Trinity , the Inch and other even further-flung parts of the City . |