Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the elevation of chef to artisan cook to fine artist , it is still rare to find a British restaurant where food is served without a main eye on fashion and where home-grown ingredients do no appear as mutant clones of other cuisines . |
| 2 | Where large organisations have historically had separate technology and information specialists the organisational evolution and current relationship between these functions may determine the organisation 's ability to have a cohesive view on IM strategy . |
| 3 | They are often found where hard corals have largely died out as a result of one of the above processes . |
| 4 | The application of all facilities under the KJHG to children of foreign nationality is explicitly legalized where previous legislation had only referred to German young people and children . |
| 5 | The implications are therefore that , where bilingual pupils need extra help , this should be given in the classroom as part of normal lessons and that there may be a need for bilingual teaching support and for books and other written material to be available in the pupils ’ mother tongues until such time as they are competent in English . |
| 6 | To progress beyond such a static application of systems it is necessary to focus upon the dynamics of the system and in the preceding few pages a number of instances have been cited where physical geographers have already advocated placing emphasis upon the function of the system . |
| 7 | In a hierarchical structure , where success is seen in terms of promotion but where promotional opportunities become increasingly limited , playing the power game is inevitable . |
| 8 | This was emphasized by the House of Lords in Whyte 's case , where local justices had mistakenly interpreted " significant proportion " to mean " the great majority " . |
| 9 | Promotion by merit rather than political influence has long characterized the British civil service , but outside the civil service ministers still exercise considerable patronage . |
| 10 | Again , this was a 1960s fad which lasted only a very few years ( c 1966–69 ) , although split-screen sequences had occasionally appeared in fantasy films such as musicals in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 11 | Producing films at that level requires a stronger nerve than British producers have generally shown . |
| 12 | The system will also compete with British Telecommunications Plc 's Concert and AT&T Co 's Accumaster systems — although British Telecom has just announced alliances with both SunConnect and Hewlett ( CI No 2,134 ) , as well as the Hermes-based enterprise-wide management systems that is under development by Infonet Corp and Microsoft Corp . |
| 13 | The system will also compete with British Telecommunications Plc 's Concert and AT&T Co 's Accumaster systems — although British Telecom has just announced alliances with both SunConnect and Hewlett , as well as the Hermes-based enterprise-wide management system that is under development by Infonet Corp and Microsoft Corp . |
| 14 | The dolphin flesh is destined for local meat markets , and although Japanese scientists have often appealed to fishermen to release young animals , they are generally ignored since tender infant dolphin meat fetches the highest prices . |
| 15 | Besides the evidence that the peasantry were economically more rational and dynamic than liberal treatments have commonly allowed , revisionists have pointed to their closer contact with urban life , the improving levels of literacy , and the declining respect for the Orthodox Church and for established authority in general . |
| 16 | Although substantial information has recently accumulated on how IL-6 interacts with two distinct receptor molecules on the surface of target cells ( 15–16 ) , as yet very little is understood about the signal transduction pathway which mediates its effects . |
| 17 | Although well-known shops do occasionally sell fake goods by mistake , it 's very rare , according to trading standards officers . |
| 18 | No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it , although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject . |
| 19 | The majority of Latin American governments have to operate under much the same constraints and , although nationalist tendencies have intermittently rendered this factor advantageous to the USSR , it has more consistently worked against Moscow . |
| 20 | If Labour Members wish regularly to employ international statistics on investment , they should bear in mind the fact that during the 1970s the average annual growth rate in business investment in the United Kingdom was 2.3 per cent. , against an average of 3.1 per cent . |
| 21 | Similarly , if secondary legislation has already created the ECU , can it not further define its role as a currency ? |
| 22 | Added Miss McIntosh : ‘ It is a very sad day for Stansted Airport , for Essex and for all of the country if American Airlines do indeed pull out . ’ |
| 23 | If religious concepts have sometimes functioned as primitive science , the converse has also occurred . |
| 24 | Because English law has nowhere declared the principle as a fundamental one , rather than a mere residual one ( as in Woolmington ) , legislators have felt free to heap burdens on defendants , the Public Order Act 1986 being a prime example in recent times ( see [ 1987 ] Crim.L.R. 153 ) . |
| 25 | Second , there appeared to have been an evening-out of change , with the mixed/pastoral farming areas recording similar rates of change to the arable areas , partly because arable farming had markedly expanded into these areas during the period from 1972 to 1983 . |
| 26 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 27 | There is a basic shortage of livestock , such as cows , chickens and pigs , mainly because fleeing landowners have deliberately killed their animals . |
| 28 | While political science has greatly concentrated on the role of governments and the executive , at the cost of examining the role of legislatures , it is clear that academic comment now presents a more varied picture of the role of parliaments than that of the decline of which Lord Bryce wrote . |
| 29 | As a proportion of overall budgets education savings are the smallest at 1.6% while Social work has also experienced a relatively small cut of 2.7% . |
| 30 | This meant in practice that magistrates had less say in determining what happened to children in trouble while social workers gained more say . |