Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client .
3 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 .
4 By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways .
5 Environmentalists claim that there is insufficient evidence to argue that dioxins are not harmful and therefore the precautionary principle should be enforced , and a ban be placed on all chlorine bleaching .
6 At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre .
7 In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity .
8 Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants .
9 That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business .
10 The finish was as accurate as the rest of the Belgians ' efforts had been wayward and suddenly the numerical disadvantage Rangers were working under threatened to be a severe handicap .
11 In public sector organizations , the distinction sometimes takes on a lesser and sometimes a greater importance .
12 Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes .
13 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 .
14 From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch
15 Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control .
16 However , easy or hard the Irish find league life from now on , they will offer new , unpredictable dimensions of entertainment .
17 It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up .
18 Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps .
19 Mixing different tartans is not easy and probably the best advice is to keep one colour common throughout .
20 Labour council leader John Williams said the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate and High Row was long overdue and just the first step in a town improvement strategy .
21 Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown .
22 The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment .
23 An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies .
24 In medieval Europe and Islam , for example , the monetary stability of the coinage was adjudged paramount and consequently the same design was retained for long periods to maintain public confidence and implicitly offer reassurance about the unchanging quality of the coinage ; we have already noted in Chapter 2 the same sort of attitude in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC ( see figs. 9 and 3 ) .
25 Most changes are minimal and so a further proof is not necessary .
26 He then asks " how should one recognise authority ? " and answers that " degrees only prove knowledge ; look among those who really love art and literature " , and he goes on to conclude : " The artist , if he really is an artist , possesses absolute value which he can not lose : the man of science , once refuted or superseded , retains no absolute but only an historical importance . "
27 The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’
28 I do not intend to have a restrictive but rather an expansive definition .
29 These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground .
30 He 's mean , he 's moody and probably the coolest thing on the screen since James Dean thought , ‘ I wonder what it would look like if I pulled my collar up like this ’ .
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