Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 2 | You 're looking for high fliers and even car firms can go bust the second year . |
| 3 | In spite of sanitary reform and what little planning there was , urban overcrowding probably increased during this period and neither health nor mortality improved , where they did not actually deteriorate . |
| 4 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |
| 5 | With the spectre of the supermarket pinta a very real threat to the British milkman , Steve Ellis points to his unofficial role as social worker or even home help . |
| 6 | Or he could even be faced with the prospect of calling about individual applications or even heaven forbid , the structure plan itself . |
| 7 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 8 | Partnerships differ , as well , in terms of specific purpose and therefore location on the whole partnership map . |
| 9 | Pugh lists Horatio , Earl of Orford , as a foundation member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce ( called later the Royal Society of Arts ) along with others who were members of that society and also foundation members of the College in 1791 . |
| 10 | ‘ Adult care workers have a duty of public protection as well protection of children . |
| 11 | The key points of extended reach and fully body rotation are artificially emphasized and the stroke is simplified and standardized to remove confusing variations . |
| 12 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 13 | There were moments of high drama and even tragedy , all sensationally recorded in the journals of the protagonists , The Seaman and The British Seafarer . |
| 14 | Rupture of atheromatous plaque leads to occlusive thrombosis that produces myocardial ischaemia and cell death leading to loss of ventricular function and possibly death . |
| 15 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
| 16 | I mean , I 'm a fan of oily rags and maybe mildew . |
| 17 | The trying climate , the oppression of the enemy , the difference of culture , the loneliness — these all work towards nervous stress and sometimes breakdown for the missionary . |
| 18 | Dental health may be a more general indicator of personal hygiene and possibly health care practices . |
| 19 | Although these years witnessed a very low tide of economic activity including the horrors of widespread famine and even peasant revolts in some areas like Tambov , problems concerning religious belief and taxation never led to large-scale uprisings in the Smolensk guberniia ( nor indeed anywhere else in Russia ) . |
| 20 | Where selective logging is at a low density ( 10 stems per ha ) in Pahang , West Malaysia , infant mortality in all primates is greatly increased , perhaps because of injuries due to the female adults having to make greater leaps from crown to crown across gaps or abandonment in the face of human presence or possibly reduction in available food . |
| 21 | Lawrence McGinty , late of these pages and now science 's man on Channel 4 's news programme — had the indignity of being the first to be ejected from the balloon . |
| 22 | Do you take one of these vitamins as well mum ? |
| 23 | Some features of that world are nowadays entirely inscrutable — notably , what it was in Frederic Lowndes 's self-effacing position on The Times which gave him and his wife access to a society of international aristocracy and even royalty , and to the inner circles of the cabinet , as well as the society of novelists and playwrights . |
| 24 | Lyotard 's ( 1984 , pp. 60–1 ) aesthetics is an aesthetics of Freudian ‘ unconscious space ’ , which ( i ) permits condensation and other contradictions ; ( ii ) permits the mobility of cathectic energies and hence displacement ; and which ( iii ) severs temporality from rule-boundedness . |
| 25 | But little was known of the nature and causation of mental disorder and so provision for treatment was minimal . |
| 26 | Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties . |
| 27 | The appalled producer took refuge in the unions and his insurance company , and Fred and Arthur composed their faces into the necessary combination of artistic bloody-mindedness and guestly sympathy to scotch the project without actually seeming to throw their good lunch back into the producer 's face . |
| 28 | Willow warblers sang meandering cadences from the trees and a vehement sedge warbler vocalised from a reed bed , letting us know that once again they had safely survived the perilous crossing of arid desert and squally sea . |
| 29 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |
| 30 | Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’ |