Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment or short-term employment immediately after graduation is largely a reflection of the time that graduates take to find the right openings . |
| 2 | Most of the information on these one.way systems is aimed at the consumer or private viewer rather than firms or businesses . |
| 3 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 4 | Many of them therefore tended to favour the single-party governments produced by two-party-dominated systems of the American or British type rather than coalition governments , however accurately the latter might reflect the " pluralistic and diverse " character of society . |
| 5 | According to the June 11 figures , Balaguer , the candidate of the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , had won 678,268 votes ( 35.7 per cent of votes cast ) , or 25,145 votes more than Bosch , whose total was recorded as 653,123 votes ( 34.4 per cent ) . |
| 6 | I 'll still come back say two or three afternoons here and practice things that I 'm weak on just and er tho tho those sacrifices where I stop until I erm sort of fuel all the ambitions I 've got in the game . |
| 7 | where R , and L refer to the per cent correct score at the right and left ear or visual hemifield respectively and R and L refer to the per cent error score at each ear or hemifield . |
| 8 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 9 | three or four weeks ago before Alan was able to vet all the information . |
| 10 | A form of voice reproduction could be built into the on-line or packaged editions so that pronunciations could actually be heard instead of inferred from the phonetic transcription . |
| 11 | Empirical statements concerning spatial and/or temporal order e.g. that x is to the left of y , or above y , or that it precedes yin a time series , etc. — do not involve attribution of certain purely intrinsic properties to x or toy , i.e. properties that might be described as part of their essential description ( qua self-subsistent ontological entities ) . |
| 12 | It was still , however , dynastic and political considerations rather than religion which began drawing Picts and Scots into a closer relationship . |
| 13 | For this reason one might expect there to be no large change in surface energy between liquid and solid glass so that surface tension and therefore surface energy , measured quite easily on molten glass , ought to be approximately applicable to the same glass when hardened . |
| 14 | New entrants to the upper class were made civilised and imbued with an ethos which extolled administrative and professional qualities rather than inventiveness or entrepreneurship . |
| 15 | No , M' lud , it portrays a vile and hopeless marriage so that others may learn that only by following Christian instructions will their own marriages be happy . |
| 16 | And why identify residential and foster care alone as areas to be staffed entirely by females ? |
| 17 | He spoke to the captain in a calm and clear voice so that others in the room could hear : |
| 18 | However , in the midst of a changing countryside , it is rural and suburban gardens rather than fields and hedgerows that now provide some of the best havens for these mammals , as they do for much of our native wildlife . |
| 19 | Hitting the purchaser with a lengthy and detailed document soon after agreement may cause them to waver and reconsider their offer . |
| 20 | ‘ The qualities required in the Chairman and members were tact and sound judgement rather than energy and administrative ability , ’ he told the Cabinet . |
| 21 | The mind learns to hold the elements of a properly structured language in both peripheral and foveal zones so that particles are magnified in and out of the group instantaneously . |
| 22 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 23 | The document , written by Tory researchers , says that Britain has won 40 per cent of outside investment in EC economies — three times more than France and six times more than Germany . |
| 24 | As 1992 approaches , the year for the fulfilment of the Single European Market , it is even more important for the Churches of Europe to have a more accurate and comprehensive picture so that strategies for the re-evangelisation of the European Community can be developed . |
| 25 | Because self-reward is gained through meeting standards and sticking to set routines , in the long run the tendency is to raise standards and elaborate routines so that self-reward may continue to be achieved . |
| 26 | Peas have 7g , cooked beans 10g , baked beans 7g , dried fruit 10g , dried figs 17g , nuts 5–10g , wholemeal bread 9g , and finally brown and white rice less than 1g . |
| 27 | We are inclined to think of connections between earlier and later events rather than connections between simultaneous events . |
| 28 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 29 | Preventative medicine and good health rather than repairs were his philosophy . |
| 30 | The study of social and economic aspects of early Anglo-Saxon society are still viewed as spin-offs from art-historical and technological study rather than topics worthy of treatment in their own right ; when thematic studies have been produced in recent years the themes have tended to remain based on site-types or artefacts rather than themes which may be more directly relevant to past human behaviour ( Wilson 1976a ) . |