Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By extension , then , conservation practices left undone , legislation remaining unheeded , projects that only serve to keep research officers in salary and which never leave the experimental station ( those things not done ) are also political acts and not just omissions , or non-events which do not need explaining . |
| 2 | The data and data structures that have been identified can be mapped on to conventional computer files or clerical files and not necessarily databases . |
| 3 | The UK by contrast requires only that figures are prepared and audited to internationally acceptable standards but not necessarily UK Gaap . |
| 4 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Electron microscopy may improve identification but it is not widely available , is expensive , and is limited by the need for specially fixed tissues when generally only formalin fixed tissues are available . |
| 6 | Her delicate mannerisms and overall maidenly demeanour suggest that she would be much better suited , say , in the tearooms of Cheltenham or Bath , with life revolving around the quieter charitable events , bridge parties and chamber music . |
| 7 | The system would help councils determine the number of service users within black communities and how effectively services are being provided to them . |
| 8 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 9 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 10 | There were 37 attempted and full burglaries and once more hi-fi and electrical equipment has been top of the burglars ' list . |
| 11 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 12 | In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting . |
| 13 | Exceptions are Fische d'Identification du Zoo-plankton which also incorporates tabular textual keys , Russell 's ( 1953 ) pictorial key to the hydromedusae and scyphomedusae , Zavodnick ( 1972 ) key to the amphiurid ophiuroids and more recently Lambshead ( 1981 ) and Platt & Warwick ( 1983 ) keys to marine free-living nematodes . |
| 14 | The collective behaviour of all the inhabitants as well as certain idiosyncrasies and possibly even eccentricities can make some contribution to the overall design . |
| 15 | They probably think that , like most of the white men in this evangelical belt between the coffee plantations and the colobus monkey habitat , I have religious connections and perhaps even powers , the sort of powers that cause money to come to pass . |
| 16 | The triangular market place was tightly packed with such properties and much of the original space had been filled with permanent buildings where once only stalls had been allowed . |
| 17 | ( Such concepts are relevant to the use of all renewable resources and not just forests . ) |