Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the original promotional scheme used by Better Shoe Ltd cost eight times more money and reached at its best a response rate of 11% , the public relations scheme using health visitors and tailored to an understanding of mothers " needs , achieved a response rate of 17.3% on the first test and 21% on the second test — a significant accomplishment . |
| 2 | The word ‘ training ’ implies a moulding , a conformity to a stereotype , and is applied more usually to technical apprenticeships where rote learning of facts , routines and technical data is essential to enable a trade to be carried out efficiently . |
| 3 | The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality . |
| 4 | Its preoccupations with rhetoric and oratory envisaged public forms where language was used to persuade , exhort , or otherwise move . |
| 5 | It reigned almost without limit in primitive times when property was still very scanty , and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal , anal form … . |
| 6 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 7 | Nicol led a token Liverpool protest that it had not crossed the line , but 12 minutes later Palace 's fans had far greater cause to howl their disapproval . |
| 8 | Peaty gleys and subalpine podzols are dominant , with some rankers where drift is shallow or absent . |
| 9 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 10 | After determination that sc infusion of caerulein resulted in induction of acute pancreatitis four separate groups of rats , each consisting of six to eight animals were given ( i ) sc infusion of caerulein alone ; ( ii ) ip injection of platelet activating factor ( 50 µg/kg ) , ( iii ) TCV-309 ip ( 50 µg/kg ) and then 30 minutes later sc infusion of caerulein for five hours , and ( iv ) TCV-309 ip ( 50 µg/kg ) and then 30 minutes later platelet activating factor ( 50 µg/kg ip ) and then 30 minutes later sc infusion of saline for five hours . |
| 11 | The outer layers of the Sun seem to contain forty times more iron and calcium than carbonaceous chondrites . |
| 12 | There are clear reasons why state power should encompass the means to conserve soil , reafforest and so on , but why do governments not do it successfully ? |
| 13 | They are not as effective or fast acting and are damaging to some surfaces particularly aluminium . |
| 14 | This is best for complex and highly organised skills where component parts interact . |
| 15 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 16 | Darlington manager Ray Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well held by the keeper . |
| 17 | Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well saved . |
| 18 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 19 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 20 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 21 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 22 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 23 | A few minutes later Pet was back . |
| 24 | In some cases where peasant movements have taken place , they are said to be clientelist-based . |
| 25 | A poor diet , emotional stress , illness and chemical damage can all lead to dull , lifeless hair and in some cases even hair loss . |
| 26 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 27 | In the first few hours following fertilisation , the embryo is not particularly tolerant of high temperatures but , by the next day , its tolerance appears somehow to have increased . |
| 28 | Residents at the charity home really hit the high notes when marketing manager , Richard Howard , dropped in to present a £2,000 donation on behalf of the Midlands , West & Wales region . |
| 29 | The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision . |
| 30 | ‘ But with the deflated pound giving the big-spending Germans more pocket money , it could be raining pfennigs from heaven . ’ |