Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.

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31 The consumer must accept that , with organic systems , some fruits and vegetables will not look perfect and they will continue to be more expensive because organic farming is more labour intensive and the land usually produces lower yields than conventionally farmed land .
32 Perhaps some sense can be made of regarding hypothetical imperatives as objectively true , since they can be taken as statements about what needs to be done to achieve something , but how can there be a categorical imperative , with no one to command it ?
33 It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time .
34 The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties .
35 The view of political parties as simply organizations for winning political power is clearly only a caricature .
36 A conference on Aug. 16-19 attended by representatives of 14 political parties as well as church , trade union , student and business leaders , called for the establishment of an all-party transitional government which would conduct elections for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution .
37 Here the oral tentacle scales tend to be larger than the oral papillae as well as being separated above them .
38 Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging .
39 Even then , however , there was a preference to use the general subsidies for new suburban houses while ever these remained in force .
40 All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined .
41 and presumably different ages as well and erm you know , there 's no set rule to getting over you know , the
42 cos he 's got brown teeth as well .
43 So then appears at Norwich Crown Court , now the case before us , was a criminal case , so that the Crown Court can deal with civic cases as well as criminal cases , cos our cas , the next one was ours .
44 Certainly the titles encourage the spectator to identify some forms as almost figurative .
45 At the same time Emily Faithfull modified the length and pay of apprenticeships , and the workers had extremely good conditions and shorter hours than elsewhere .
46 Weobly , lying among gentle hills , its church spire visible from miles away , boasts more and finer black and white medieval houses than anywhere in the county .
47 Of the 375,000 in the public sector , which included Scottish institutions as well as those in England and Wales , the polytechnics would be expected to expand to accommodate 180,000 students by 1981 .
48 He picked up some notes as well .
49 The unit will have a private consultation room and open plan area for social activities as well as kitchen and toilet facilities .
50 Erm I , I wo n't go into them because you know basically erm I think the three main ones reflect the fact that he 's saying the peasants are rising up and they 're not only changing their political views erm but are obviously changing their cultural values as well according to , to , according to what he suggests .
51 This distorted access to resources in youth and middle age — institutionalised in segregative and discriminatory employment and other social policies as well as in the domestic division of labour — is reflected , in due course , in the relative disadvantage of women in old age .
52 The presence of carbon-bearing rocks similar to those studied here would raise the rock conductivity to moderate values if dry and to high values if also saturated with brines , producing values similar to those observed for the crustal high-conductivity zones by magnetotelluric methods .
53 However , it was better to give people some skills although overall it was a waste of money in West Belfast .
54 We 've got some beiges as well that a few are quite sort of close to white .
55 Every nurse needs to develop psychological and social skills as well as manual skills in order to maintain an effective nurse/patient relationship while the patient requires it ; and these skills are also required to relinquish the relationship when appropriate .
56 His rise to the very pinnacle of the business world is evidence not only of academic and managerial skills , but of social skills as well .
57 ‘ We 'll need some sticks as well , ’ said Peter , taking one of the petticoats .
58 The bombardment chewed the British defences as savagely ; the dawn advance was cloaked in the same white mist of invisibility ; within hours the storm troopers had overrun the new Front and the retreat was on again .
59 A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey .
60 But ‘ there were few signs as yet that standards of work were benefiting as a result . ’
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