Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The share price falls below the lowest current exercise price for 4 consecutive trading days or halfway between the lowest exercise price and the next potential series . |
| 2 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 3 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 4 | He must never be left in such a position that he can carry on the habit , he must be made to forget it ; this sometimes takes three months , or longer in the worst cases … |
| 5 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 6 | I imagine most people would want to get into this area in the smallest way and so with the smallest product , the postcard . |
| 7 | In practice this power has been rarely used , and only with the greatest reluctance . |
| 8 | It shows both the classic system of abstract geometric decoration : small black areas , graded zones of pattern with varied maeanders ; and at the same time the introduction on the neck of two zones of repeated animals ( grazing deer , resting goats ) and just above the broadest point of the body , on the shoulder between the handles , a scene of human action . |
| 9 | ‘ The size of the earth over which one may roam shrinks day by day , until it decreases to the house , — to one 's room , — to one 's bed ; and finally to the narrowest space of all . ’ |
| 10 | Ant : And now for the best bit ! |
| 11 | No subject developed diarrhoea , and even at the highest dose tested of 400 pmol vasoactive intestinal polypeptide/kg/h only reduced absorption or a low rate of secretion of water and electrolytes was observed . |
| 12 | But how were they to ensure survival in the game , and then at the highest level ? |
| 13 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 14 | So it 's basically if they finish on the level points goal difference shall determine the final positions followed by the highest number of goals scored and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 15 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |
| 16 | There may be cases where all the fault lies on the side of the head , and indeed in the earliest days of financial delegation many governors were said to have resigned because they could not find enough time to master the intricate responsibilities of new government and because a path through those intricacies had not been mapped by the head . |
| 17 | If q is probable given p , then p & g is more likely than and therefore in the nearest worlds where p is true , q will also be true . |
| 18 | The ‘ Crombie ’ is usually considered the skinhead coat — but only in the broadest sense of the word ‘ skinhead ’ can this be accepted . |
| 19 | In the case of behaviour , we know quite a lot about what animals actually do , and about the anatomy and physiology of the brain , but only in the simplest cases can we explain the former in terms of the latter . |
| 20 | Obvious discussion points are based on the introduction of the mathematical names for the more common shapes and of some of their properties , but only in the simplest terms , e.g. which shapes will roll , which will slide , etc. and these discussions can be centred at one time upon the three-dimensional solid and on another occasion on the two-dimensional bounding surfaces . |
| 21 | Once a smaller one buzzed by like a transparent bumble bee , below him but still above the tallest buildings . |
| 22 | He would be defended not just by the best lawyers in Egypt but probably by the best lawyers in France . |
| 23 | I shall approach their work , in short , in the light of the pragmatist belief that a study of the problems they pose and the solutions they offer may provide us not merely with a new perspective on the scope of holistic explanations , but also with the best means , in the end , of assessing their strength . |
| 24 | To explain the non-proportionality of annual time-series data , such as that in Table 3 , Duesenberry suggests that aggregate consumption depends not just on current income , but also on the highest level of income previously attained . |
| 25 | But even with the best understanding in the world some element of uncertainty is present in knowledge , for we can never know exhaustively how we come to know . |
| 26 | But even at the simplest level , the call line identification facility alone will not only improve communications and enhance the functionality of many office telephone systems , it will enable companies to offer a whole new range of personalised services ( see ACCOUNTANCY , April 1992 , pp 70-71 ) . |
| 27 | The big camp is vast , colossal , but even beyond the hugest encampment there is still the wire and the watch-tower and the searchlight . |
| 28 | But even in the darkest days of the war , there was time to laugh , especially over the Government issue underwear . |
| 29 | Strictly business it might be , but even in the tightest schedule there were small gaps — moments that could foster an ongoing intimacy or become fraught with an antagonism which seemed to be growing between them . |