Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another method reverses the direction of flow , with the water moving upwards through coarse and then fine material . |
| 2 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Grid Convertible , when set-up as a notepad , makes for easier and more natural input for note taking at meetings or when standing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Making sense of persistent and therefore worrying disobedience can be made as simple as ABC . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A wave of unexplained and apparently random bomb explosions occurred in central Johannesburg on May 17 , wounding 12 people , black and white . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hierarchical controls have been weakened by ‘ family circles ’ of interdependent and mutually supportive district officials . |
| 17 | Following the demonstration that children could achieve various levels of skill in referential communication tasks , attention became increasingly directed at the reasons for the relatively limited success of preschool and early primary school children at these tasks . |
| 18 | Custodial sentences and remands prevent immediate offending but increase the likelihood of later and more serious reoffending . |
| 19 | Unless therefore the right asserted is tautologous and meaningless — unless ‘ adequate ’ means simply whatever is available in the given circumstances — its assertion is a threat not merely of arbitrary compulsion but of unlimited and inherently futile compulsion : it is a programme of nihilistic aggression . |
| 20 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 21 | The point generally made in corroboration of this theory is that his poetry is marked by images of sterility and mechanical lust , and that the excised passages of The Waste Land which have now been published contain evidence of pervasive and sometimes bitter misogyny . |
| 22 | IN East Germany two men , formerly regarded as untouchable pillars of the old regime , have , rightly or wrongly , become the focus of over-zealous and sometimes bizarre persecution by the legal authorities and an indignant public . |
| 23 | IN East Germany two men , formerly regarded as untouchable pillars of the old regime , have , rightly or wrongly , become the focus of over-zealous and sometimes bizarre persecution by the legal authorities and an indignant public . |
| 24 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 25 | In that historical sequence , some organisms , such as humans , have appeared only very recently , and their past ancestry seems to have been one of rapid and quite dramatic change . |
| 26 | Logic Promotions , those people who do the Number One range of instrument care products — fingerboard oil , and so on — have just brought out a new set of unusual and rather delectable guitar cables . |
| 27 | A recruit … finds that there is a lot of unromantic and possibly boring work to be done before he gets a chance to use his military training . |
| 28 | Editor , — The article by Lesley Rees and John Wass is an excellent example of factual and well reasoned analysis ; it must not be ignored . |
| 29 | In Shakespeare 's tragedies hypocrisy is no mere quirk of human nature but the sign of a propensity towards deep and ultimately inexplicable evil . |
| 30 | The uncertainties and frustration caused by multiple restructuring arising out of a process of frequent and sometimes inconsistent peer review exercises have led to a lack of cohesion in research objectives , low staff morale , and low scientific output ( in terms of papers ) . |