Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colonoscopy is expensive , has to be done by a specialist , is uncomfortable for the patient , and requires complete bowel preparation and often sedation and analgesia . |
| 2 | At the same time there was no organised capital market and so interest rates might be high . |
| 3 | He observed that there are certain classes of English word combinations that neither syntax nor semantics can justify ; for example , although the words ’ strong ’ and ’ powerful ’ may have a similar meaning , people prefer saying ’ drink strong tea ’ to ’ powerful tea ’ and similarly prefer ’ drive a powerful car ’ to ’ strong car ’ . |
| 4 | The able-bodied had to saw up old railway sleepers and then chop up the pieces for sale as firewood . |
| 5 | It touched upon empty lockers , unemployed clothes pegs and peely paintwork . |
| 6 | Receives crisp facsimile charts & even news agency pictures . |
| 7 | On the M4 , junction 1 , that 's the Chiswick flyover , it 's very heavy indeed in both directions , and on the M4 , junction 4b with the M25 to junction 5 at Langley , the inside lanes are still closed in both directions for overhead cable work and currently traffic is very heavy and slow in both directions . |
| 8 | Although users are encouraged to finance themselves via banks and sponsorship from private enterprise , the Centre will provide some personal computer hardware and even software development tools if necessary . |
| 9 | Leslie and Pyke 's ( May 29 , p 1418 ) assertion that the association between glucose tolerance and birthweight applies only to impaired glucose tolerance and not diabetes has already been refuted . |
| 10 | They hypothesise that impaired glucose tolerance and possibly type II diabetes may both result from poor nutrition early in life interacting adversely with abundant nutrition later on . |
| 11 | The phrase ‘ A Dave McCullouch band ’ was often used to describe those whose musical wanderings took them into the world of personal art ethics and therefore obscurity . ) |
| 12 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 13 | Samples are mounted in a block of cold setting resin and then ground and polished to reveal the edge of the sample . |
| 14 | In fact , antibodies raised against IL-6DBP ( 22 ) are able to immunoprecipitate both in vitro synthesized rat IL-6DBP and the human counterpart NF-IL6 but not rat C/EBPδ and the human counterpart NF-IL6β . |
| 15 | ‘ The event proved useful in providing some positive plans for further exploiting the water sector , ’ said David Simmers , corporate training manager and even organiser . |
| 16 | Louisa Twining was chief financial supporter of the Society for Promoting the Return of Women as Poor Law Guardians and subsequently chairwoman . |
| 17 | There is little evidence for phenological character displacement and thus avoidance of competition , though fruit removal rates decline when many species are in fruit , i.e. there is competition for dispersal agents . |
| 18 | BOSS ME6 multi-effects with slight surface marks and also Fender Strat with locking trem system , metallic green , good condition , offers . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Ashton , an experienced primary school teacher and now lecturer at Durham University , has found that work on particular symbols can energize children into relating effectively to their own experience ( Ashton 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Joining a trade union in South Africa and being active within that union can lead to dismissal physical violence imprisonment and even death . |
| 21 | He has a particular interest in Italian Mannerist art and also photography , especially the early history in Scotland . |
| 22 | In Denmark , private investors have been successfully encouraged to build their own small wind turbines and now wind accounts for one per cent of electricity consumed there . |
| 23 | Employment opportunities include not only work with the traditional large-scale centralized business system but also involvement in database systems , distributed systems and small business systems . |
| 24 | Settlements in south-west Scotland were reworking Anglo-Saxon bronze scrap and perhaps glass ; the fragmentary whetstone with a facing human head from Collin , Dumfriesshire , is stylistically related to the examples from Loveden Hill and Sutton Hoo and may point to the exchange of goods between the areas . |
| 25 | There is no significant correlation across the 60 films between mean risk rating and either P(A) , r(58)=0.14 , or B , r(58)=0.07 , or between accident estimate and either measure r(58)=0.06 and r(58)=0.03 . |
| 26 | There is no significant correlation across the 48 junctions between mean risk ratings and either P(A) , r(46)=0.24 , or B , r(46)=0.12 , or between accident estimate and either measure r(46)=0.16 and r(46)=0.09 . |
| 27 | Quite the contrary : it requires a formidable array of homeostatic devices , in order to achieve uniform information processing and hence independence from all but the most generalized set of internal reinforcement mechanisms . |
| 28 | Touring Guarantee is a progressive cover and offers everything from roadside assistance ( including Homestart ) to overnight hotel accommodation and even air flights to the customer 's destination . |
| 29 | It enables users to prototype specific hardware interfaces and also network systems . |
| 30 | It enables users to prototype specific hardware interfaces and also network systems . |