Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for Wales 's clarity of thinking are not difficult to see : ministers more interested in practical achievement than ideology ; an NHS management team together now for five years ; and , above all , a district structure and population the size of just one of England 's 14 regions . |
| 2 | Add the meat and brown over medium heat until meat is totally dry and there is no liquid in the frying pan . |
| 3 | The accused is not guilty of that offence if force or threat of force is not used at the time of the theft . |
| 4 | On histological review , it was felt that these two tumours were more consistent with hepatocellular carcinoma than cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 5 | The ECG also monitors the amount of blood being pumped around the body — crucial in major surgery where blood loss and supply have to be carefully balanced . |
| 6 | Sulphates are less subject to dry deposition than sulphur dioxide and consequently remain in the atmosphere for days , travelling up to several thousand kilometres in favourable meteorological and synoptic conditions . |
| 7 | As Lawrence and Lorsch were at pains to point out ( see Chapter 13 ) integration is as crucial to organizational success as differentiation . |
| 8 | A reverence for antiquity , though an appropriate stance for theology , was inappropriate for natural philosophy where reason and the senses held sway . |
| 9 | In general , however , the British remained more conscious of American criticism than support in the Middle East . |
| 10 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 11 | Clearly all things worked together for good in this family where friction was as rare as in a well-oiled machine . |
| 12 | The examples are not always abstract ballets , because the three aspects described above are applicable to most choreography if music and dance are to be equal partners in a ballet . |
| 13 | It is difficult not to agree with Nossal that such wastefulness is inherent in any system where consumer pressures predominate and is one of the less happy faces of market economics . |
| 14 | A diet rich in fibre tends also to be low in fat content because carbohydrate foods provide many of the calories . |
| 15 | Delayed gastric emptying is not responsible for this finding since octreotide , in contrast with somatostatin , slightly accelerates gastric emptying of a mixed meal . |
| 16 | Police control of the roads is as important to public safety as crime prevention and detection . |
| 17 | Video 's role now can be to provide the variety , interest and stimulation which are very important at this stage when motivation is often beginning to wane . |
| 18 | It was rhetoric as familiar in American politics as apple pie . |
| 19 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 20 | In most peasant communities agricultural operations are of considerable communal significance , and this is likely to be particularly true of wet-rice agriculture where irrigation is the key to survival . |
| 21 | An applicant will not be entitled to legal aid if representation is available to him from his Trade Union . |
| 22 | In all these cases extrathyroidal fibrosis , in the retroperitoneal space and around the biliary tree , seemed more sensitive to steroid treatment than thyroiditis , which showed an unpredictable response . |
| 23 | Also active at this time as receiver of Admiralty droits in Sussex , he was restored to the commission in 1628 . |