Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the largest bars are broken through at intervals by tidal inlets especially where powerful rivers reach the coast . |
| 2 | The mechanism functions only if fiscal considerations play a decisive role in location choice . |
| 3 | The flight of religious sects seeking greater freedom to pursue their often rather peculiar activities was probably less significant than in the previous half-century , if only because mid-Victorian governments held no strong views about orthodoxy as such , though probably not displeased to see the heels of the British or Danish Mormons , whose penchant for polygamy created problems . |
| 4 | Naturally it was not long before other brewers saw the potential and began producing their own NAB/LAB beers , most of which were low-alcohol products . |
| 5 | Many think that such profits will continue as long as big borrowers run the government . |
| 6 | American officials generously agree that there is nothing wrong with government schemes to spend money on PCs , so long as foreign firms have a fair chance to bid for orders . |
| 7 | Another difficulty arising from having to use conditions rather than legal agreements concerns the length of time for which the reserved areas can be safeguarded . |
| 8 | Religious rather than political beliefs permeated the everyday lives of both Russian and national minority peasants . |
| 9 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 10 | Rather than weary arms taking the strain , the harness lines do , allowing maximum use of body weight whilst letting the arms make fine adjustments to the sail . |
| 11 | Neighbourliness among the poor suffered greatly during the inter-war years , when unemployment rather than low wages became the chief cause of poverty . |
| 12 | Fancy Patterns : This really does cover many stitch types and is intended for those patterns that are most often used for single colour work , where the design relies on texture rather than contrasting colours to form the pattern . |
| 13 | In Britain , the balance between public and private sector funding is five to one and individual rather than corporate benefactions form a ‘ negligible ’ element of the private sector . |
| 14 | Try to formulate these as questions rather than just phrases describing an area of interest . |
| 15 | This is largely because human readers use an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process . |
| 16 | COLOMBO — Sri Lankan troops went on the offensive at first light yesterday after left-wing rebels defied a six-day government ceasefire and burnt dozens of vehicles and buildings , killing 61 people , Reuter reports . |
| 17 | People dived aside as undercover cops ambushed a post office raid . |
| 18 | Darkness began to descend quickly as rain-filled clouds turned the sky to a menacing black void . |
| 19 | SICK pop idol Michael Jackson was on the road to recovery yesterday as furious fans slammed the way his Wembley concert was cancelled . |
| 20 | In fact , unknown to the traveller , who was no more a geologist than a naturalist , he was about to step over the geological phenomenon of two prehistoric ages crunching into each other as noticeably as jagged waves hitting a large smooth stone . |
| 21 | The exact origins of what we recognize as apples are rather obscure but they are generally thought to come from the Caucasus Mountains in Asia Minor , near where seventeenth-century historians located the Garden of Eden . |
| 22 | Similarly if junior managers receive a three per cent salary increase , middle managers receive a five per cent and top managers a ten per cent increase the overall rise in salaries must be calculated from the original absolute numbers and not the percentage changes . |
| 23 | This arises not only because fathers tend to reject young sons at puberty but also because young males show a preference for their own kind for company . |
| 24 | In so far as top businessmen play a decisive role in company strategy — as distinct from its public presentation — the talents they need will vary from one situation to another . |
| 25 | Even where new activities constitute a separate use within the planning unit , the new use may be de minimis in planning terms . |
| 26 | Even where noble interests constituted no barrier , the government 's effective power was severely limited by the rudimentary nature of the bureaucratic apparatus available to it . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem . |
| 28 | Looked at from the ground , however , a rather different picture emerges , since it is clear that in many constituencies local issues were of greater importance , and even where national issues played a role , they were often distinctively shaped by peculiar local circumstances . |
| 29 | The evidence currently suggests that the factors controlling the dispersal of similarly decorated pottery related more to the social system than to purely commercial factors , even if economic considerations controlled the distance travelled to a chosen clay source . |
| 30 | Even if cross-border mergers become a matter for Brussels - which might be expected to take a larger , continent-wide view — rather than national authorities , defence is specifically reserved for the attention of member governments . |