Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ . |
| 2 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 3 | Another method reverses the direction of flow , with the water moving upwards through coarse and then fine material . |
| 4 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 5 | While the government was willing to set aside very limited funds for specialised and principally in-service training , it rejected a £40 million proposal from CCETSW to replace the two-year Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ( CQSW ) with a three-year programme leading to the award of the Qualifying Diploma in Social Work . |
| 6 | And when the minute grubs hatch , they are immediately attracted , through some as yet unidentified sense organs , to the scent of mustard oil emanating from the roots . |
| 7 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 8 | I 'd like to go along with it , but I think it 's an area that ou ought to be clear when , er , grants coming in for some or even minor building works , there ought to be a specification within , whether the building can cover it or whatever . |
| 9 | The Grid Convertible , when set-up as a notepad , makes for easier and more natural input for note taking at meetings or when standing . |
| 10 | There are several blank pages after this but perhaps another minute book , now lost , was started . |
| 11 | But on 5 January , ‘ after much & very painful hesitation ’ , he sent the money back , expressing at the same time ‘ no ordinary feelings of esteem and affection ’ for his benefactors . |
| 12 | The arguments against restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis on the grounds that the operation carries a much greater morbidity than ileorectal anastomosis now seem to be unfounded , particularly when the need for annual and sometimes difficult sigmoidoscopy after ileorectal anastomosis is considered . |
| 13 | A third should be added : that men 's wages were invariably higher than women 's , even if for similar or even identical work . |
| 14 | Such a patient is , by definition , going to die sooner rather than later , and the regimen of care adopted , overshadowed as it is by the mass of available technology , calls for distinct and very sensitive regulation . |
| 15 | What happened between early and later Greek society to generate these developments must have been something other than the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy alone since literacy was present in both periods . |
| 16 | Making sense of persistent and therefore worrying disobedience can be made as simple as ABC . |
| 17 | For , as we shall see , the topic we are about to review has many different strands , having been the subject of extensive and increasingly systematic enquiry from several different points of view that have taken it well beyond the realm of intuitive speculation from which it began . |
| 18 | A few military theorists — Saxe in his Rêveries ( 1757 ) , Justus Möser in his Patriotische Phantasien ( 1775–1804 ) , Guibert in his Essai générale de tactique ( 1772 ) — as well as political writers such as Montesquieu , Morellet and Mably , might advocate some form of extensive or even universal service ; but there was no serious possibility of their ideas being adopted by any government . |
| 19 | Taxation is designed to ensure that the losing party only has to pay those expenses properly incurred and is not saddled with the cost of unnecessary or unduly expensive work . |
| 20 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 21 | In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty , the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper . |
| 22 | In addition , husbands tend to see their participation in domestic work very much as helping their wife rather than the assumption of definite and perhaps permanent responsibility for some domestic duties . |
| 23 | Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) quotes from work with cancer patients , patients who have had a myocardial infarct , and patients who have rheumatoid arthritis ; all examples where long-term contact with health care staff is more likely than in instances of acute and more transient illness . |
| 24 | The remnant of a larger lake that once filled the surrounding valley , it has a superficial layer of fresh or slightly saline water down to 50 m deep , replenished seasonally by glacial streams , notably Onyx River , and stirred by their turbulence . |
| 25 | Economic gains may flow from this process through unscrambling previous misconceived acquisitions , for example , or simply from an injection of fresh and more dynamic management . |
| 26 | A straight line can be defined as a curve of infinite or very large radius . |
| 27 | A wave of unexplained and apparently random bomb explosions occurred in central Johannesburg on May 17 , wounding 12 people , black and white . |
| 28 | Even the provision of free or almost free housing leaves the farm worker no better off when comparisons are made with workers elsewhere , for the latter often receive benefits — cheap meals , pension funds , medical facilities , etc. — unavailable to farm workers . |
| 29 | There is a clear excess over expectation of cyanogenic forms in the areas of high and very high mollusc density and of acyanogenic forms in the areas of very low mollusc density . |
| 30 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |