Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roots of disillusionment — in so far as they were the fruit of twelfth-century conditions and not merely the natural response to too high or too vaguely expressed expectations — lay in the intellectuals ' belief , stated by John of Salisbury . |
| 2 | These provide a clear and very carefully controlled approach to English handwriting . |
| 3 | Some preventive rules , together with endangerment offences , can be seen in a variety of other situations , but nowhere is there such a detailed and fairly widely known set of standards as that applicable to drivers on the roads . |
| 4 | A similar and perhaps better appreciated situation can happen in yacht racing where it is possible to ‘ take the wind ’ out of another 's sail . |
| 5 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
| 6 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 7 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 8 | £60 Straightforward if rather opaquely written account of the life and work of one of America 's great painters , not sufficiently celebrated outside his own country . |
| 9 | In larger , less homogeneous and more densely populated countries , such as France or the UK , the task of identifying areas qualifying for assistance is more complex . |
| 10 | Future technology is a more real and more easily grasped way to present the past , and as such presentation becomes more widely used , more and more people will come to realize what archaeologists and historians have known for so long — that the past is the key to the future . |
| 11 | Never before published systematically , these photographs are a primary source of the utmost importance , recording the unrestored and sometimes pathetically damaged state of many of the pieces at the artist 's death . |
| 12 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 13 | The rebuilding and refurbishment carried out in the reactor building at Hunterston B have provided a more pleasant and more easily cleaned environment . |
| 14 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 15 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 16 | There are indoor and outdoor tennis courts , as well as a large and very well equipped fitness centre with every kind of apparatus imaginable . |
| 17 | The counties were always liable as they grew , therefore , to lose their most populous and most highly rated areas to new or expanded county boroughs . |
| 18 | In some cases it is possible for a district to be equated with a large town , but in other cases a desire for districts to be larger has produced curious and often locally resented combinations . |
| 19 | We have had a good if somewhat sparsely attended debate . |
| 20 | Between 1898 and 1923 the development of a more complex and less easily controlled society confronted the monarchy of King Alfonso XIII with a series of new challenges . |
| 21 | According to coeditor and exhibition curator , Richard Kendall : ‘ The decision to publish the symposium papers was taken to provide a more leisurely and less highly charged opportunity to study the issues , and to bring new material and new insights to the attention of a wide audience ’ . |
| 22 | However , even if this is true , there is a more fundamental and less easily answered question . |
| 23 | Some metopes , for instance the beautiful and comparatively well preserved Herakles and the hind ( fig. 63 ) , show a precise , linear definition of forms in the archaic tradition . |
| 24 | These essential contacts with other departments meant insufficient time for equally important but less clearly defined contacts with the research and development group . |
| 25 | And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes . |
| 26 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 27 | The er , book is based on an inaccurate and sometimes even fabricated evidence , due probably to the er , rather idealistic er , excitable ambitious er Bullett , rather than the peaceful like of Freud . |
| 28 | The standard hypertonic UK-ORS has already been replaced by the hypotonic monomer solution HYPO-ORS in the British National Formulary but the World Health Organisation understandably remains cautious about modifying what has been a highly successful and very widely tested remedy . |
| 29 | The small but relatively well paid labour force is kept separate from the garbage pickers who are further divided between themselves by intense competition . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , despite his vital if sometimes reluctantly assumed role in maintaining the norms of society , the psychiatrist is often in danger of under-valuing the weight of the social pressures bearing on his patient and of assuming ethnocentrically that his own and his society 's moral standards enjoy universal validity . |