Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these curriculum initiatives are associated with trying to increase the component of industrially and vocationally relevant education taking place in schools . |
| 2 | I think it 's a matter of fact that all the schemes I have seen have included an element of best and most versatile land . |
| 3 | The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) . |
| 4 | Johnson ( 1986 ) discusses the practicalities of using the textual processing capacities of computers for a specific research purpose , and Wells ( 1985 ) gives a useful ( and rather sobering ) account of the problems encountered by the Bristol Child Language Project in computer-processing a very large amount of socially and developmentally variable material . |
| 5 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 6 | During his twenty years of more or less full-time business Stanley Baldwin became a Justice of the Peace , the chairman of a board of school managers and a member of the Worcestershire County Council . |
| 7 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 8 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 9 | However , since the breaking loads for convenient sized test pieces ( say ¼ inch thick ) are typically between about one and ten tons ( a motor car weighs about a ton ) and since most testing is done by girls , it is usual to apply the load mechanically or hydraulically and there are a large number of more or less automatic testing machines on the market . |
| 10 | A brown earth soil is aerobic , of more or less neutral pH , with a good mixture of mineral and organic matter , bearing deep-rooting plants and supporting a normal population of soil life , particularly earthworms . |
| 11 | Some algae admittedly produce sex cells of more or less equal size . |
| 12 | The desire to complement the relative strengths and frailties of a practice may commend a true amalgamation of firms of more or less equal standing with the aim of providing a more comprehensive service at a higher standard . |
| 13 | Eighteenth-century observers often argued that naval battles between opponents of more or less equal strength were almost certain to be indecisive , that naval warfare was by its nature unlikely to produce victories of the kind which might be expected on land . |
| 14 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 15 | I had picked my pall-bearers carefully , so that , for obvious reasons , they would be of more or less uniform height , but one of them was late , and the fourth corner had to be hoisted onto the shoulder of Nigel 's nephew , who was six-foot-four-plus-a-bit . |
| 16 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 17 | The Group 's objectives and research strategy imply a continuously evolving work programme whose content may change as it is realised that particular issues ( or faults in past analyses ) are of more or less central importance . |
| 18 | Provided the relationship goes forward and is unimpeded ( it will be recognised that this description is programmatic only , that the timescale up to this stage may be much extended , and that circumstances affecting it are multitudinous — for example , moral inhibition in the single state may be overcome by marriage ) at some stage there will be direct physical contact , at first of more or less sexual content , later more directly sexual . |
| 19 | From the point of view of more or less militant pressure groups , there are real problems as to what to do in these circumstances . |
| 20 | Manucci 's writings are full of more or less fanciful speculation on this matter : |
| 21 | Family reconstitution and literary archaeology have revealed a mountain of more or less valuable information . |
| 22 | Without entering upon a detailed examination of this idea , let me simply observe , in the present context , that it too takes for granted that democracy , in the instances considered , has reached a stage of more or less completed development , and can thus be contrasted , as a distinct type of political system , with other types such as totalitarianism , dictatorship or ‘ unstable ’ democracy . |
| 23 | The millimetre to centimetre scale alternations , which record periods of more or less intense upwelling , represent time scales of several years to several tens of years and may represent a response to some internal oscillations of the equatorial Pacific such as El Nino . |
| 24 | Sometimes , as with Kant , a period of more or less authoritarian government under an enlightened prince was seen as a necessary preliminary to the introduction of a more liberal and representative form of rule . |
| 25 | Of course , two knots is not a constant speed for a whole tide — you 've got to allow for periods of more or less slack water . |
| 26 | Probably contemporary with this are some bronze shields with relief decoration of purely if crudely oriental character . |
| 27 | For further and more accurate identification of meiotic bivalents , or in the interpretation of abnormal configurations , C-banding will be found helpful . |
| 28 | By this means a government can ensure that part of the supply of foreign exchange is surrendered to it at a low price to be used to satisfy the demands of privileged groups , including itself , while the remainder is left for more or less free disposal by the recipient enterprises , either on an official market at a more favourable rate , or on a free or ‘ black ’ market . |
| 29 | Second , the cause of the problem has been clearly identified as nomads and graziers who are politically very weak , and who have had much of their livelihood taken away and upon whom the heaviest penalties for ‘ trespassing ’ on forest schemes fall — in the same way as in the days of the Emergency , when aggressive family planning ‘ drives ’ herded vagrants , petty thieves and other vulnerable groups into camps for more or less forcible vasectomy . |
| 30 | This problem of licensing network users for more or less constant use of a package like a spreadsheet is one of the factors that has attracted chartered accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn to Borland 's Quattro Pro for Windows . |