Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Certainly there were those , both in the divisions and outside , who felt that the BEA headquarters design policy , in its search for reliability and speed of construction above all else , had imposed an unnecessary conservatism on development . |
| 32 | This was later to be criticised as imposing an unnecessary conservatism on design ( pp. 104–10 , below ) , but at that time ( with shortages of skilled draughtsmen and engineers , and the overriding priority of speeding up the installation of safe and reliable sets ) it was widely supported by the manufacturers and the CEB as well as in Whitehall . |
| 33 | To the extent that a given CR , separately acquired to each of two CSs , is likely to be evoked with particular vigour when the two CSs are presented together so the conditioned response of inattention will be especially strong when A and B have separately undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 34 | According to Rado , its specific origin is to be found in the blissful unity of mother |
| 35 | Each stage of the occupation had its specific brand of collaborator . |
| 36 | Remembering the bloody tide of revolution in France , paid informers and Government agents lured leading revolutionaries into a trap at Bonnymuir that was to end in transportation for life to the antipodes … |
| 37 | This category has the least security , but the greatest freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 38 | To avoid this problem and to allow the greatest freedom of competition between financial institutions , the alternative is to use monetary base control with no statutory cash ratio . |
| 39 | Those countries which are least isomorphic in their institutional arrangements have the greatest freedom of movement and choice either way . |
| 40 | The characteristic that courses for career women , courses reclaiming the curriculum on behalf of women 's history and culture , and courses providing useful knowledge and skills for women reconstituting their traditional roles have in common is the recognition that some women at least have expectations , aspirations and preoccupations which are not well catered for in the mainstream provision of adult education . |
| 41 | Thus , while the principal economic function of state enterprises is usually quite well-defined and stable over time , they also perform many other economic functions which may place complex and often contradictory demands on them . |
| 42 | Diana admits that she was n't easy to handle during that baptism of fire . |
| 43 | A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense . |
| 44 | For example , the devastating fungus Cordyceps militaris nearly fills its host 's body cavity with fungal tissue , absorbing nutrients from the rich haemolymph ( the body fluid of the insect ) , literally starving the hapless insect to death from within . |
| 45 | To this end we all need to be engaged in a programme of progressive disengagement from injury to animals . |
| 46 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 47 | Effective involvement in the future may depend not only on more extensive support for user representatives but on overhauling the planning process . |
| 48 | First , history is a coherent story of progress . |
| 49 | For example , although Text Processing 5 is named as the module which forms part of the SVQ in Business Administration ( Secretarial ) at Level II , in the case of trainees without previous experience , the normal route to Text Processing 5 would be as follows : |
| 50 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson place strong reliance on section 39(11) , but in my judgment an injunction does not qualify as a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within the terms of that subsection . |
| 51 | Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 52 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 53 | Any substance that tends to re-awaken the craving for the primary addictive " drug of choice " is cross-addictive with that drug of choice . |
| 54 | What is the normal function of insect orientation detectors ? |
| 55 | But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose . |
| 56 | Small units like bricks and crazy paving have to be bedded on a solid base of hardcore , with the finished paving bedded in concrete . |
| 57 | With a solid base of competitor data that is continually updated to maintain its currency , senior executives and general managers — the corporation 's key decision-makers — will be in a much stronger position to : |
| 58 | My rebellion came on a solid base of love , admiration and imitation which I had done when I was very young . ’ |
| 59 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 60 | Steps should be laid from the bottom upwards on a solid base of concrete . |