Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delegates demanded the start of all-party talks as soon as possible , followed by the formation of a broadly based interim government . |
| 2 | The aim is to develop new statistical methods which will predict the behaviour of future subjects as accurately as possible . |
| 3 | The effect of imposing taxes unilaterally rather than globally ( for example , within the EC but not in the US or Japan ) , would mean that countries less stringent in their environmental policies may become more attractive as locations for production . |
| 4 | With regard to marriage , eighteenth century canon law , which recognized marriage based on verbal contract , found itself in conflict with common law , which denied the validity of such marriages as far as property was concerned . |
| 5 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 6 | He must get out of this house and out of these memories as quickly as he could . |
| 7 | What is the status of these areas as far as planning goes ? |
| 8 | Some people get the hang of these things more quickly than I do . |
| 9 | He said the centre provided ‘ a golden opportunity to improve our understanding and , perhaps more importantly , to bring the fruits of these advances as rapidly as possible to practical treatment programmes ’ . |
| 10 | She stressed that , as a councillor and member of the Social Work Committee , it was important that she should be in possession of these facts as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Your present vehicle will fall into one of three categories as far as petrol is concerned . |
| 12 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 13 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 14 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 15 | This is the moment which humankind must accept as the beginning of all things as far as human life is concerned . |
| 16 | A United States Senate subcommittee investigating the BCCI scandal , chaired by John F. Kerry , heard testimony on Aug. 1 that several US government agencies knew of illegal activities as early as 1986 . |
| 17 | By the age of 5 years slightly more than 90% of boys had retractile foreskins . |
| 18 | However , as Simpson ( 1987 ) observes these longer-term forecasts are required to inform policymakers of the potential costs and benefits of alternative strategies as well as for general monitoring . |
| 19 | First , competition became fiercer in the 1980s with the deregulation of many markets both nationally and internationally , and the entry of new competitors ( from the sunrise economies of the Far East for example ) . |
| 20 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 21 | If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling . |
| 22 | There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others . |
| 23 | the Crown is not bound to take the advice of a particular Ministry to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial . |
| 24 | A Local Area Network is a way of connecting computers together so that they can use the same database software , exchange information , or share the use of printers and modems . |
| 25 | Key recommendations included ( i ) the establishment of an expanded National Peace Committee ( NPC ) with permanent local and regional offices which would replace dispute resolution committees ; ( ii ) the stationing of 30 UN observers who would serve with the NPC and would draw on the experience of the UN team which monitored the mass action campaign ; ( iii ) the provision of UN assistance to the Goldstone Commission for full-scale inquiries into the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , the South African Police ( SAP ) and the Kwazulu Police as well as the armed wing of the ANC , Umkhonto we Sizwe , and its Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) equivalents ; the Commission 's findings , hitherto presented to the government , would be released to the multiparty NPC ; ( iv ) UN reassessment of its role every three months ; ( v ) the resumption of constitutional negotiations as soon as possible with the establishment of a " deadlock-breaking " mechanism ; ( v ) the appointment of " an eminent and impartial person " to convene the talks ; ( vi ) the urgent release of political prisoners ; and ( vii ) an end to the bias of the state broadcasting services . |
| 26 | But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary . |
| 27 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 28 | BT is also revising its credit procedures to reflect the credit-worthiness of potential customers more accurately and will allow appeals against unfair ratings . |
| 29 | There is also the danger of spreading resources too thinly and separating teams from local authority power structures . |