Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system of self-regulatory organisations is fundamentally different from the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) in the USA . |
| 2 | There is nothing immoral about being a member of CND , but we must understand that the principles and policies of that organisation are wholly different from the principles and policies set out in the motion . |
| 3 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 4 | And er , I think that there are people who are a little wet behind the ears if they think that the general public are going to accept the costs of a budget that 's coming forward on a long these lines . |
| 5 | Levels of photo-chemical smog are remarkably high in the Lakes and the environmental agency Greenpeace reported recently that in the summer of last year , when smog is most likely to occur , the World Health Organisation 's recommended safe limit was exceeded in London on one occasion only . |
| 6 | And one suspects it might be back in the days of the nineteen fifties , nineteen sixties when the labour party opposed anything at local level , of course , but at local level that might tend towards helping people to be upwardly mobile on the grounds that upwardly mobile people stop voting labour . |
| 7 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 8 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |
| 9 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 10 | Conversely , large establishments may be reluctant to join since they will be more self-sufficient for bargaining purposes and less dependent on the services and support which an association can offer . |
| 11 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
| 12 | They are not quite like anybody else , anywhere , and they are especially different from the Slavs and Turks and Arabs who occupy so much of the neighbouring part of the world . |
| 13 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is this which is so charming in the actions and behaviour of the infants of all species : the freshness and the tentativeness with which the life within explores its new mental and physical apparatus . |
| 15 | Some artists become so resentful of the conventionalities that come with the signal — the imposition , as it is said , of a merely ‘ arty ’ atmosphere — that they consciously take their work to other , ‘ more normal ’ places . |
| 16 | Interestingly no-one — to my knowledge — has found specimens anything like this big in the wild ; obviously it must have the potential for such sizes , but perhaps Nature is less generous with the rations that is the average hobbyist . |
| 17 | Rex and Moore 's classification was based upon research in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham , and it is more or less time-specific to the mid-1960s and applicable to medium-to large-sized cities . |
| 18 | This convention , so standard in the comedies that it escapes notice ( especially in modern theatre-productions , where it is very rare to be able to hear any difference between prose and verse ) , stands out in the tragedies , where the clown 's reduction of the medium imposes an often uneasy mood of relaxation or verbal indulgence , outside the time of the tragic action , frustrating its rhythm . |
| 19 | From 1655 to 1656 he was especially fearful about the Quakers and records their progress in the neighbourhood . |
| 20 | The selection of the preferred option is often a political process and so subject to the values that politicians bring to the process as discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 21 | Smaller groups which also gained representation in the Federal Assembly were ( i ) the Movement for Self-governing Democracy-Society for Moravia and Silesia ( MSD-SMS ) , which sought the restoration of separate government for the historic territory of Moravia-Silesia ; ( ii ) the Slovak National Party , demanding total internal autonomy for Slovakia , favouring the retention of links with Prague only in foreign affairs and defence ( although with separate representation abroad for Slovakia ) , and seen by many as basically hostile to the Czechs and to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia ; and ( iii ) Coexistence ( also known by its Hungarian name Egyutteles ) , a coalition of the Hungarian , Polish and other minority nationalities , which formed an electoral alliance with the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement , and polled heavily among the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia . |
| 22 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 23 | She wrote : I thought it would be less embarrassing for the children if I were not here . |
| 24 | But he 's so confident on the greens that the rest of his game does n't seem to matter and , of course , as Willie Park said , ‘ the man who can putt … ’ ‘ |
| 25 | Anne Smith was there to judge the competition and was so impressed with the winners that we are featuring them in our magazine ; two this month , three in September and the final one in October . |
| 26 | men who are heavily involved in jural-political , overt and conscious structure are not free to meditate and speculate on the combinations and oppositions of thought ; they are themselves too crucially involved in the combinations and oppositions of social and political structure and stratification . |
| 27 | Behind the scenes though , neither Law nor his party was so sure of the grounds and there was certainly some fear of the consequences . |
| 28 | At the packed Army & Navy store in Guildford , Surrey , queues were so long at the tills that staff used the public address system to apologise and appeal for patience . |
| 29 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 30 | These problems figure much more prominently in the Rutter and Jones book , and quite rightly : Wilson takes the answers for granted , and hence is much less impressed with the difficulties and complexities of the scientific search for an answer . |