Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that the corporatist literature is important : it is ambitious ; it is sensitive to the tie-up between politics and economics ( in a way which pluralism never was ) ; it deals not just with the process of public policy-making but with the substantive outcomes of that process as well ; and it is keenly alive both to the clashes of interests and to the forces which have tended to hold those clashes in some kind of check . |
| 2 | Erm , Local Government and Local Council work is often seen as being very drab and indeed we all know that it 's becoming probably less exciting nowadays with the constraints that there are and what Councils still require er in abundance are characters , people who bring a bit of excitement to Council affairs w i at whatever level and I think that one thing that has is character , sadly missing in so many younger politicians I must say . |
| 3 | so slippery underfoot on the pavements . " |
| 4 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |
| 5 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 6 | The river too was uniformly dark apart from the ripples and eddies which were thin ribbons of light . |
| 7 | Make the casing only just large enough for the rods , so that they fit tightly . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm much more restrained now in the hats I choose to wear . |
| 9 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 10 | For several years it looked like Billy Bremner had calmed down , the excessive niggling was more controlled and the bristling temper was kept on a leash , but trouble was always brooding just beneath the surfaces . |
| 11 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 12 | So the wind was more fierce there off the straits . |
| 13 | The prevailing wind , the shape of nearby hills and many other things also have an effect and make it more advantageous thermally for the hills to point slightly to one side or the other of magnetic north . |
| 14 | It was also due partly to the obstacles of fashion . |
| 15 | Even if the rules were obeyed , the system was clearly oppressive both to the families whose best sons were torn from them and to the young boys who would never see their parents again . |
| 16 | We are also concerned here with the interactions between components . |
| 17 | In the strongest version of this approach , behaviour is generated by a system of forces or a structure , external not only to the minds of each actor but also external even to the minds of all actors . |
| 18 | The data volumes collected are often voluminous even by the standards of contemporary computing facilities ; |
| 19 | However , what is most apparent generally in the provisions described is that deaf children are unable to interact , do not contribute to class lessons through speech , are subjected to distorted and exaggerated mouthings by teachers and pupils in order to convey specific information ( i.e. not natural language interaction ) and are unlikely to have secure peer group friendships . |
| 20 | This is just one version out of the score of recipes for this venerable dish which is not a grill at all and which you will scarcely find nowadays simmering away in the galleys of the great petrol barges which whirl down the Rhone to Marseille . |
| 21 | Queensland has a warm tropical climate and going barefoot was quite common even for the boys but some form of footwear was needed on occasion . |
| 22 | The stage area at the casino in Le Touquet was almost close enough to the tables to kick the glasses off . |
| 23 | As we move away from the equator the climate becomes drier , then wetter again in mid-latitudes , and then drier again towards the poles . |
| 24 | These advances , which have had an impact in both basic and applied research , are again spread widely among the disciplines . |
| 25 | The external assessors should be financially liable only to the shareholders and only for damages that reflect the assessors ' degree of fault . |
| 26 | She had wavy blond hair and was rather attractive apart from the beginnings of a moustache . |
| 27 | However , the we have recently had to incur extra expenditure because the road that were put in looking at one hundred er er were found to be too high especially for the services and er place er committee which er throughout that it was very difficult but apparatus you know moving fire . |
| 28 | The service was conducted throughout in traditional Coptic , a language found only in churches and a few schools , and which very few even of the Copts understood . |
| 29 | ‘ We get so very tired here in the islands . ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately , it does not carry with it a directive as to which code or system is to be involved , or indeed whether any code is actually usable internally by the children who experience it . |