Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 2 | From here we take the road marked Curral das Freiras for a short but very scenic and awe-inspiring drive . |
| 3 | Except where the bureaucracy rules through the military and so itself constitutes the executive branch of government , the executive and bureaucracy should not be confused . |
| 4 | Celebrity teams will be taking part in addition to many teams from local companies to raise funds for the blind and partially sighted in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | I I 'm very grateful to the Secretary of State , erm is he aware that increasingly over this winter there have been examples of homes for the elderly and particularly nursing homes in the private sector without casting a valued judgement on the role of the private sector , er homes that are finding difficulty in the filling the beds because of policy that is being pursued in care in the community . |
| 6 | This seemingly contradictory combination of an extreme objectivity of vision with a strong vein of intimacy and personal humour emerges as one of the main characteristics of the classical and immediately pre-war Cubism of Picasso and Braque . |
| 7 | They were the kinds of places in which learned authorities paraded such things as the wonders of nature , the relics of past ages , and the achievements of great people , before the eyes of a deferential and often uncomprehending populace . |
| 8 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 9 | All these , as well as many of their innocent relatives and acquaintances , were to find themselves condemned to the mercies of a capricious and often brutal exile administration which many were neither physically nor spiritually able to withstand . |
| 10 | The Frankfurt Assembly showed less the strength of the German middle class , more its vulnerability to the demands of the unpropertied and therefore its equivocation on the issue of democracy and its dependence on the armed power of Prussia and Austria . |
| 11 | Only where the demands of the Anglo-Norman and then the Angevin empire dictated it was there regular delegation of the prince 's judicial rights to an official ; even then , this delegation was revoked when the king-duke visited . |
| 12 | The much vaunted scum defence leaks two goals against a plucky though rather ordinary side ; ho ho ho . |
| 13 | Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience . |
| 14 | Armstrong could also be among the all-weather winners with the improving and well weighted Quattro in the Ascom Tele-Nova Handicap at Lingfield tomorrow . |
| 15 | The Intimate Machine raises many issues concerning the social impact of computers in an invigorating and highly readable manner . |
| 16 | However , we would suggest caution in making generalisations from the results given the eventual shortfall of nine schools from a small and carefully constructed sample . |
| 17 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 18 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 19 | The call brought all three heads round , both men grinned , and Travis climbed to his feet as a young and visibly pregnant redhead came into view . |
| 20 | Probably HMI 's greatest influence was Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1978 ) , which first commented so authoritatively and adversely on the short-changing of youngsters through the unfettered and badly guided option system at the end of the third year of secondary education . |
| 21 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 22 | The book 's aim is to help guide local communities through the various and often daunting processes involved when tackling local environmental problems such as open space . |
| 23 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 24 | The search for the nature of the distinctively gay sensibility can be productively redirected as an exploration of the limitations of the aesthetic as conventionally understood , especially the way it is said to transcend the socio-political , and used in support of the proposition that discrimination is the essence of culture . |
| 25 | North of the village are the ‘ bings ’ or spoil-heaps of an important but relatively short-lived Scottish chemical industry — the extraction of oil from shale . |
| 26 | The gifts offered no doubt included the alms of the faithful as well as bread and wine . |
| 27 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |
| 28 | He slowly and deliberately offers his most vulnerable , visible , and precious possession to A Big Black Bull ; placing the actual in direct conflict with the symbolic , time after time ; tempting the forces of the primeval with the swirling deep pink petals and folds of the gaping and potentially enveloping cape . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 30 | The Chief Environmental Health Officer , Tony Fenn , says he 's concerned the sickness and diarrhoea which was caused by contaminated water at Farmoor reservoir , could endanger the lives of the elderly and very young if it re-occurred . |