Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a little odd considering The Smiths ' make up was , up to this point , completely based on experience of failure . |
| 2 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
| 3 | This Government is rarely so generous with the taxpayers ' money , espe cially to people who seek out an in vestment opportunity which does n't involve paying UK tax . |
| 4 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 5 | His own brawny , Mancunian accent was obviously akin to The Chameleons ' Mark Burgess , and combined with the haunting guitar riffs of Gedge 's early songs , it all became very uncanny . |
| 6 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 7 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 8 | As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work . |
| 9 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
| 10 | Richard Hannon 's unbeaten two-year-old , off the course since July with an injured stifle , is only third in the bookmakers ' list for the Group One contest . |
| 11 | He was also largely instrumental in the Casuals ' home ground becoming The Oval for a number of years . |
| 12 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model . |
| 13 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 14 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 15 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
| 16 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 17 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 18 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
| 19 | A scheme , more successful from the settlers ' point of view , was that in part of Ecuadorian Amazonia , where a ‘ settlements first ; roads second ’ philosophy prevailed . |
| 20 | However , in the real world there is an additional concept of efficiency , which takes cognisance of the fact that real firms are never as technically efficient as the theorists ' firm . |
| 21 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 22 | These are directly congruent with the beings ' activities : whether they cause harm , in the form of disease and mishap , or whether they help to set things right following such a damaging occurrence . |
| 23 | Still active in the students ' movement , I continued to struggle for recognition of our oppressions as women , lesbians and gays , and people with disabilities . |
| 24 | Those most involved also experience most feedback and are more aware of the governors ' and the LEA 's response to the report . |
| 25 | Frequent television viewers were significantly more aware of opinion poll findings , more aware of party leaders ' activities , more aware of second-rank politicians ' activities , and more aware of the parties ' campaign themes . |
| 26 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
| 27 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 28 | Yet nearly two-thirds of the Boards ' revenue came from the generally larger industrial and commercial consumers . |
| 29 | ‘ Where do you live ? ’ enquired Betty , contriving to look at once serious , since the subject had been death , and also interested in the Molesworths ' continuing existence . |
| 30 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |