Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly many staff had found the self-appraisal to be a valuable exercise and it was such staff , it seems , that were most positive about the process as a whole and who were most willing to take seriously the advisers ' recommendations . |
| 2 | It is extremely difficult to gauge accurately the dimensions of the shroud from these brasses , but a mean average would be twelve inches longer than the length of the body — to allow for a six-inch knot at top and bottom — and three times its width . |
| 3 | There will always be some resistance to this sort of change and the problem will continue in some firms for at least another decade , so it is still apposite to mention briefly the methods of valuing goodwill . |
| 4 | With this in mind it is also important to define better the roles for endothelin-2 and endothelin-3 . |
| 5 | It is now possible to draw together the comments made above on the various aspects of the division of labour . |
| 6 | Union representatives sought concrete standards because employers were often unwilling to discuss seriously the implications of operators ' complaints of fatigue and strain . |
| 7 | It is also clear to me that , on past performance , the management are well able to take forward the changes in a very difficult area of health care . |
| 8 | It is one thing to distinguish a cuckoo 's egg from those of its host , but quite another to tell apart the eggs of two different starlings . |
| 9 | The latter are sometimes necessary to clear either the after-effects of these infections or inherited traits passed on from infected forebears before other remedies can work to clear up the case . |
| 10 | I was a little surprised to hear yesterday the views of Mr about the need for this plan to identify the location or the general location of the new settlement . |
| 11 | Not only will the proposed reorganisation plunge local government into confusion and uncertainty for a number of years , during which we can expect little progress with the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions , but the resulting structure of small unitary authorities is very unlikely to deliver either the resources or the strategic perspective required to implement the proposed review . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to assess accurately the costs of corporate crime . |