Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although firm on the link with Britain and steadfastly opposed to a united Ireland , and although not immune to the pressures of extreme Protestant organizations , Andrews was never a strident unionist . |
| 2 | Although not unaware of the benefits in increased production which the new agrochemicals had allowed , she drew attention , in a passionate book , to the long-term dangers : With words like these Rachel Carson placed farming practice at the centre of what was to be an often rancorous controversy about the compatibility of efficient , profitable and cheap food production with the ecological balance of the countryside . |
| 3 | These guidelines , although not exhaustive of the factors to be considered , include the following : ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence and extent of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practicable ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . |
| 4 | The vast majority of the British public , although generally sympathetic to the problems , maintain stubborn and inflexible attitudes to the subject of mental handicap , especially if the problems intrude into their lives . |
| 5 | Rather than just appropriate to the careers service . |
| 6 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 7 | But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers . |
| 8 | I was quite prepared to do this journey alone , but my mother , who had given me every encouragement although well aware of the risks I was running , insisted I should take a companion . |
| 9 | Since there is no necessary chemical connection between the substances which bind to allosteric proteins , and the chemical reactions those proteins catalyse , it follows that the results of metabolism , although fully interpretable by the laws of chemistry , are not dictated by those laws , but by the physiological needs of the organism , and ultimately by natural selection . |
| 10 | Look at an actual example of disjuncture between politics an ideas , although very different from the ones analysed by Anderson . |
| 11 | Hillary is nothing if not aware of the pitfalls that lie ahead . |
| 12 | The former , while mainly concerned with the technicalities of Treasury operations , made a number of proposals relating to the functions of senior civil servants . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A paper published in Nature , for example , will contain a very small number of references , each of which can be regarded as highly influential on the authors , because that journal limits the number of references per paper . |
| 15 | Though not unwelcome to the fishermen , he reminded himself . |
| 16 | Then came death from a wasting disease such as took his scavvy parents , if not death in a rumble with some other undercity gang or with habbers from above , better armed though not wise in the ways of the drekzone … |
| 17 | But with the recognition that ‘ Be aware ’ prescribes responding from all relevant viewpoints , the judgement changes to condemnation of the massacres as objectively wrong on the grounds that to be moved against Hitler and on behalf of his victims would be the reaction of anyone , including Hitler himself , who responded impartially from the viewpoints of both . |
| 18 | However , in the real world there is an additional concept of efficiency , which takes cognisance of the fact that real firms are never as technically efficient as the theorists ' firm . |
| 19 | For a variety of reasons , therefore , it is not possible to regard the overall figures for the consultation as statistically representative of the views of solicitors in private practice as a whole . |
| 20 | To have a late claim considered , a company should apply to the inspector as soon as reasonably possible in the circumstances . |
| 21 | Here , as in the case of the corporation , we need to treat group responsibility as logically prior to the responsibilities of officials one by one . |
| 22 | The Buddhist intelligentsia associated it with beef eating , gambling and the consumption of arrack , activities which were frowned upon by those influenced by Buddhist revivalist ideas but which were perceived as regrettably common among the masses . |
| 23 | But many socialists , though increasingly aware of the difficulties associated with highly centralized and bureaucratized modes of planning , have tended to interpret these difficulties differently . |
| 24 | Company uniforms are voluntary in all three plants , but seem less widespread among British workers ( though almost universal among the managers ) . |
| 25 | For now , their impudent , untutored music stands as a shining example of talent as yet untainted by the demands of The Man . |
| 26 | His hearing was sharper than most , and as yet unmarred by the years ; probably few of the others heard it . |
| 27 | A concept , as yet untested in the courts , is that there is no such thing as a computer-generated work ; that is , a work without a human author . |
| 28 | Rule 5 – 43 provides that a firm must not make a personal recommendation to a private customer to deal , or arrange a deal in the exercise of discretion for any customer , if the dealing would reasonably be regarded as too frequent in the circumstances . |
| 29 | Already one of the four leading underwriters in 1744 , they were to be one of the two houses that arranged the ‘ closed subscription ’ loans to the government in the difficult winters of 1745–6 and 1757 — loans subsequently attacked by Sir John Barnard [ q.v. ] as too favourable to the promoters . |
| 30 | Prince Albert , who did much to promote a concern for working-class housing , not least by dying himself from typhoid , gave his name to a model building for four families which , although again intended for artisans , had been rejected as too ambitious by the organizers of the Great Exhibition ( Fig. 37 ) . |