Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a practice has become well established in terms of the relationship within or between different organs of the state , finding recognition in works of authority and by those involved in its operation , then it may be said to have reached the status of a convention . |
| 2 | Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) . |
| 3 | The modules can be offered as free standing courses , or linked together or with other modules in integrated programmes . |
| 4 | He remained a very private individual during his twelve years at the top , rarely venturing into society and always preferring a quiet dinner alone or with chosen friends to an elaborate occasion . |
| 5 | Attention is drawn to the fact that , while the balance conditions ( 7.9 ) and ( 7.10 ) for the Maxwell L-C bridge are independent of frequency , those for the Hay version are frequency dependent , so that for good results with this version an extremely pure sinusoidal source is needed and , ideally , a detection system that only responds to the same frequency . |
| 6 | In three of the six subjects ( responders ) methane excretion showed a pronounced fall a few days after SO 4 was added to the diet , so that by 10 days with added sulphate methane concentration was less than 2 ppm in all samples measured in these three subjects . |
| 7 | As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient . |
| 8 | The proportions of individuals with these alternative life styles differ between populations , so that in some areas of the world all individuals change sex . |
| 9 | Every worm removed about 0.1 ml of blood daily and in heavy infections of several hundred worms , pups quickly become profoundly anaemic . |
| 10 | So if within six months of going back to work , they 're off again . |
| 11 | The 3000s support 2,300 users , less because of current limitations in the MPE/XL operating system for multi-processing , but TPS rates are higher , ranging from 114 for the 3000 990/100 up to 420 for the 992/400 . |
| 12 | They are classified together because of basic similarities in the appendages , even though they have diversified into very different-looking creatures living equally happily on land and in the sea . |
| 13 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
| 14 | Animals of most species are likely to find themselves living close to their sisters , brothers and cousins , rather than to random members of the population . |
| 15 | The indices for health are negative — death rates , life expectancy rates , morbidity rates — and they refer mainly to quantitative rather than to qualitative changes of the labour force . |
| 16 | In this case it would always be advantageous to invest for one month at a time rather than for two months at one go . |
| 17 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 18 | It would make life a lot simpler to do these alterations when the words exist as digits in a computer 's memory , rather than as solid chunks of metal in the composing room . |
| 19 | This attitude may have the effect of blunting the critical edge of press coverage , by encouraging court reporters to perceive themselves as part and parcel of the court process , rather than as objective critics of its workings . |
| 20 | Over such periods high growth rates , and rapid improvements in living standards , are dependent upon an increase in productive capacity rather than on temporary changes in the level of demand . |
| 21 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 22 | The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the profound failure of British law and practice in this regard , concentrating mainly on telephone-tapping rather than on other forms of interception . |
| 23 | The emphasis is on the vocabulary rather than on other aspects of language and there is a tendency to focus on the high style . |
| 24 | Its usefulness will depend on the extent to which your research focuses on general properties rather than on specific properties of the chemicals that make up real polymer solutions . |
| 25 | That , says McKinsey , is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air . |
| 26 | The Committee approved the trend towards cooking in sculleries rather than on open fires in living rooms although the latter remained the only option for many families living in rooms until well into the inter-war period . |
| 27 | Past political decisions justify coercion because , and therefore only when , they give fair warning by making the occasions of coercion depend on plain facts available to all rather than on fresh judgments of political morality , which different judges might make differently . |
| 28 | Instead , it has chosen to develop ‘ projections of demand based on the likely availability of resources rather than on detailed assessments of specialty needs . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , successful labour organisation could have been more firmly based on unions which each combined many skills within a single industry , rather than of related functions in a wide range of businesses . |
| 30 | The small piece of hedge , woven like a basket with the traditional hazel and willow , is now planted facing the harbour side for the benefit of photographers rather than at right angles to the bank . |