Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it should be recognised that while it is possible to analyse costs retrospectively to the individual patient , it is not possible to plan prospectively for the individual patient . |
| 2 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 3 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 4 | The second axillary articulates partly with the preceding sclerite and , as a rule , partly with the base of the radius ( see p. 60 ) . |
| 5 | It is possible to work hard at a complete system and get very little from it because of interference by other predators . |
| 6 | The best leys , such as the alignment of the Devil 's Arrows standing stones in Yorkshire with the Thornborough Henges , pass their tests well , but the statistical models used are still not entirely adequate to cope fully with the real distribution of sites in the landscape . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 8 | If England were to decline to tour India on the grounds of safety , other countries might not be so willing to visit there for a one-day jamboree . |
| 9 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 10 | They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment . |
| 11 | But it would be wrong to stress either in the middle ages or in the sixteenth century — the significance of parliamentary opposition . |
| 12 | The passionate concern for their fellow countrymen shown by the French contrasted sharply with the stiff upper lip of the British . |
| 13 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 14 | The reason that it seems unpromising follows directly from the Freudian theory of psychosis which sees it essentially as a withdrawal of libido from objects and its re-investment in the ego . |
| 15 | They may be interested to learn more about the equal opportunities campaign , WISE : Women Into Science and Engineering — which British Gas has long supported . |
| 16 | I have been interested to learn more about the valuable work AEA Technology is doing on supplying technology world-wide through technical consultancy , technical products and services and engineering project management . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 18 | She brushed her skirts down over his hand so that it was free to move upwards beneath the pleated folds . |
| 19 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |
| 20 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 21 | One feature I was sad to see here on a recent visit was a fish hatchery installed in the bay , a sight now common in the western lochs and doubtless contributing to the local economy ; sad because I feel that all living creatures should have freedom of movement and not be bred and confined in restricted space for the table . |
| 22 | Most of them would be unlikely to sponsor a wholesale reconstruction of the educational system and were content to work strenuously within the generous limits of the new Act of 1944 . |
| 23 | But while many potential owners enjoy visiting the Shelters , it is not that easy to walk away with a new pet . |
| 24 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 25 | It 's all drawing information from this same central store of information erm it 's a way of sharing information amongst a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons , information which previously would have been separated and almost impossible to put together without a great deal of effort . |
| 26 | It 's a way of sharing information amongst a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons , information which previously would have been separated and almost impossible to put together without a great deal of effort . |
| 27 | In considering the relationship between the religious education of Catholic Secondary School pupils and the S.C.E. Short Courses in Religious and Moral Education it is appropriate to do so under the following headings : |
| 28 | And poor Soapy walked away with the young woman , who still held on to his arm . |
| 29 | There is a real feel here for a developing area of research , which avoids giving a misleading impression that the current state of the art provides any ultimate answers , handed down on tablets of stone from above . |
| 30 | Council houses were sold and buses ‘ deregulated ’ ( although the housing association sector seems set to expand dramatically in the 1990s ) , but the bulk of existing public housing remained in council hands , and public transport has always been run on a semi-market basis , with the charging of fares coupled with separately identified public subsidy . |