Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young .
2 I believe the agenda for the 90s is rooted in daily life and Postmodernism is in harmony with this and not an autonomous entity .
3 If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory .
4 Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts .
5 Ben Jonson actually takes delight in announcing ( in Latin ) on the title page of his 1616 Workes that the book is designed for the select few and not the common crowd .
6 Whichever party is in power makes some but not a great deal of difference .
7 In this century , a substantial body of functionally differentiated statute law has grown up around the landlord–tenant relationship , such that today the nineteenth-century rules have limited — though still very important — practical application .
8 Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty .
9 To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done .
10 There was a certainty — a vitality — in his every movement , such that even the slightest hesitancy was telling .
11 Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution .
12 This limits the number of possible combinations such that only a few examples exist in this category .
13 This weakens the leaf 's connection to the tree so much that even a light breeze can blow it off .
14 Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later .
15 yes , we tend not to use P C Us as much as well a few years ago .
16 The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year .
17 It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers .
18 It 's a lot more than that and quite a different fabric .
19 Yet it is not arbitrary that the idea of this particular should remind us of these and not other particulars , and that these and not the other particulars should have the same name used of them .
20 The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster .
21 he 'll eat raw carrot and things like that but otherwise the only vegetables he 'll eat are potatoes he eats
22 The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen .
23 Arthur picked a green disc from this box in which all and only the green discs are smooth .
24 Arthur picked a smooth disc from this box in which all and only the green discs are smooth .
25 In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data .
26 Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity .
27 How far is it possible to speak of a partnership at all if only a restricted set of activities is undertaken ?
28 In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 .
29 They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women .
30 In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary .
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