Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It briefly examines the legacy of private development during the nineteenth and earlier twentieth century and the nature of the pressures for taking the railways into state ownership , which are likely to influence the subsequent development of industrial relations . |
| 2 | The second and most substantial part of the project will be an investigation , through direct interviews , of the strategies of the major international suppliers in Europe , the USA , and Japan . |
| 3 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 4 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 5 | She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner . |
| 6 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 7 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 8 | The second and more troubling event has left me — the self-styled , experienced , capable , worldly-wise individual — in a moral dilemma with no idea how I should respond . |
| 9 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 10 | The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis . |
| 11 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 12 | The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title . |
| 13 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 14 | The second and more common approach involves breaking or segmenting each cursive word into sub-parts . |
| 15 | The second and more exciting aspect is that , when it does so , the direction of spin is not affected : if the initial spin was clockwise , it will still be clockwise even after the toy has turned over . |
| 16 | The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion . |
| 17 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 18 | The second and less sweeping challenge to Hale came from Smith J. who , whilst accepting the contract and consent analysis , suggested that the consent could in certain circumstances be revoked by the wife . |
| 19 | Even more extraordinary was the fact that Nelson Mandela , the sixth and most eminent member of the group , appeared to have negotiated the terms of the release of his colleagues , who are expected to be freed this weekend . |
| 20 | The fourth and most convincing case is Purchase v Lichfield Brewery Co ( 1915 ) 1 KB 184 . |
| 21 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 22 | The fourth and very important principle which operates in personal care is gender . |
| 23 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 24 | A short stroll amid the usual birches , boulders and close-cropped grass brings the first and most continuous section to hand . |
| 25 | The first and most general cost has been to give the impression that Official Unionists would not be welcome in the Free Church . |
| 26 | This is reflected in the syllabus for the Institute examinations which are held at centres throughout the U.K. The first and most essential requirement of any student for any professional examination is that he or she must be able to communicate in the language ( in which he or she will be examined . ) |
| 27 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |
| 28 | The first and most critical stage in his exercise of power was the formulation of a " will " . |
| 29 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 30 | In the first and most quoted example of the genre , the Coventry-Solihull-Warwickshire study ( 1971 ) set the mould by using multiple regression analysis as shown in Figure 8.6 . |