Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the rural communities of previous centuries most families included more than two generations — the extended family — and the families of land-owners were further extended to include the indoor and sometimes the outdoor servants . |
| 2 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 3 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 4 | The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power . |
| 5 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 6 | I slowly began to realize that the Alexander Technique not only covers the physical body , but also the mental , the psychological , the emotional and even the spiritual … a sort of ‘ sorcerer 's stone ’ . |
| 7 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 8 | Moreover , in decisively increasing the importance of the literate culture , it had the effect of a new kind of stratification , in which the cultural but also the social importance of the still oral majority culture declined . |
| 9 | So you get the fourteenth and then the following one is the twenty eighth February ? |
| 10 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
| 11 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 12 | The best results were found from the combination of the two processes , the worst when just the rule-based method was used . |
| 13 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 14 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 15 | For those who found this social order irksome — the rebellious , the ambitious or simply the single-minded — ; the village could become a narrow and restrictive prison , dispiriting and mean-spirited , shackling the individualist by the vicious purveyance of gossip and innuendo . |
| 16 | Here you can find childrens books , an Arthur Askey annual from the 1940s and surely the ultimate dirty book , a 1935 War Office Drainage Manual . |
| 17 | This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic . |
| 18 | The second was formally liquidated in Europe between 1848 and 1868 , though the situation of the impoverished and especially the landless peasantry in regions of large estates in southern and eastern Europe often remained semi-servile , in as much as it remained subject to overwhelming non-economic coercion . |
| 19 | Thus , ads targeted at 40-year-old housewives started to use hit tunes first from the fifties and now the late sixties . |
| 20 | Three major Islamic options are to be considered — the maintenance of Muslim tradition , or the pursuit of modernisation , or the messianic or indeed the modern fundamentalist path of revolution . |
| 21 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 22 | For the first and almost the only time in the Second World War , there was what can fairly be described as a generally pervading popular ‘ war mood ’ , disdaining any premature and presumed over-generous peace with Britain , and even somewhat disappointed with Hitler 's new and ‘ final ’ peace offer of 19 July , aimed at assuaging world opinion . |
| 23 | However , like the mammals and the birds , the flowering plants certainly originated , and probably did much of their evolutionary groundwork , during the Mesozoic and especially the Cretaceous . |
| 24 | This large and important group of plants is represented today by a mere four genera of humble herbaceous plants — Lycopodium , Selaginella , Isoetes and Phylloglossum — living fossils which have survived with little change from the Mesozoic or even the Carboniferous . |
| 25 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 26 | ( The ability to make statements without indicating status , which Lyons attributes to English , is not , of course , the only or even the major way in which abstract and neutral meanings can be formulated . ) |
| 27 | But red tape is not the only or even the main problem . |
| 28 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 29 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 30 | Vantage have used a sealed back on the VG-15 and so the reverse side is featureless , save for the mains cable which trails from its lower edge . |