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 | Another method reverses the direction of flow , with the water moving upwards through coarse and then fine material . |
| 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 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 . |
| 5 | A third should be added : that men 's wages were invariably higher than women 's , even if for similar or even identical work . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty , the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A straight line can be defined as a curve of infinite or very large radius . |
| 19 | A wave of unexplained and apparently random bomb explosions occurred in central Johannesburg on May 17 , wounding 12 people , black and white . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hierarchical controls have been weakened by ‘ family circles ’ of interdependent and mutually supportive district officials . |
| 24 | These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While we are on the subject of the amount paid in business rates , can the Minister tell us whether shops whose rates have been assessed on the basis of six-day or even five-and-a-half-day trading will have their rateable values reassessed on the basis of seven-day trading ? |
| 27 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |