Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other fishing stations of JTR 's time on the west coast suffered the collapse of the herring industry earlier and have kept alive mostly through tourism ( though Stornoway still tenuously has oil and fishing links ) . |
| 2 | This was the first fall since 1973 and was due predominantly to reductions in the numbers of remand prisoners , due to the success of the probation service 's bail information schemes , and sentenced young offenders , partly due to the stricter criteria for custodial sentences for young people required by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act , and partly to the drawing up and implementation of ‘ action plans ’ for community plans by the probation service . |
| 3 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I regret the job losses at Clydesdale , which are due fundamentally to overcapacity in seamless tubes . |
| 4 | THE OLD and the new combined successfully in Delhi yesterday as England claimed victory over The Railways . |
| 5 | Paul Hammond was the Palace goalkeeper charged by Malcolm Allison to succeed the legendary John Jackson , and it was a measure of Paul 's ability that , eventually , he was able to do that successfully in spite of the attitude of some sections of the Palace crowd , which opposed his selection . |
| 6 | Apart from random fluctuations , due mostly to sampling and response errors ( the latter are very common in retrospective surveys ) , the relationship between infant mortality and birth order took reversed " J " , " U " or " J " shaped forms in most of the sampled communities . |
| 7 | It is unlikely that there is a transition between the minor forms and the major ones : indeed , there seem to be fundamental differences between the two ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) , including the fact that the minor forms , being due mainly to surface creep , have the coarser grains in the ridges , while the larger forms , due mostly to saltation , tend to have the finer material near the crests . |
| 8 | That regardless of background , education , race , sex , occupation or age every single trade unionist is an individual member with the same rights and responsibilities as his or her colleagues . |
| 9 | Our results also showed that plasma and urine cAMP and cGMP values were abnormally high in coeliac disease patients who had not been treated , and became normal only after treatment when clinical , biochemical , and histological remission was achieved . |
| 10 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 11 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 12 | These socio-economic differences in school-leaving age are not due entirely to IQ differences . |
| 13 | An analysis of the half-year accounts and projections for the end of 1991 indicated that LAB 's expenditure for the year would be somewhat over budget , due entirely to costs hitherto outside it control . |
| 14 | " My dishevelled appearance is due entirely to Miss Topaz Chilcott , who imagined that I was going to have my wicked way with her . |
| 15 | ‘ But would he do that all over Lothian , or only in Wedale ? |
| 16 | Mrs. Rene Henry , our Chairman , will undoubtedly make reference to these affairs in her report at the Annual General Meeting to be held , by kind permission of Matron Elder , at the Nursing Home at 7.30 pm. on Monday , 26th . |
| 17 | The increased detection of anti-HEV in adults in our study could reflect a cohort of Turkish residents infected with HEV in the past and a younger generation unexposed to virus , due perhaps to improvements in sanitation . |
| 18 | The relatedness of fetal mortality to birth intervals is widely discussed in the relevant literature but , due perhaps to lack of reliable data even from developed countries , without resolution . |
| 19 | If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 20 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 21 | Past , present , future , here , there , inner , outer , self , other , quotation , allusion , portmanteau word , syllable , letter and grunt — all whirl about two poles , their names forever changing , their enduringness graspable only by initials , A L P — the river , the Liffey , the woman and H C E , the man . |
| 22 | This glove has since fulfilled my requirements for treasure hunting being tough enough , warm enough and dry enough for use on land sites , the beach and — obviously underwater . |
| 23 | It was n't performance-intensive enough for Silicon Grahpics Inc , but included stuff like multi-processor support that was completely unimportant in a mainstream Intel competitor , but yet it remained hard to design and debug . |
| 24 | However , while interest on a loan falls due regardless of ability to pay , dividends on redeemable preference shares can be paid only if there are sufficient distributable reserves available . |
| 25 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 26 | As the Italian inventor may discover , the music industry does not flourish on recordings that sound right only on headphones |
| 27 | Henceforth , like St Paul , she was dead to the world and alive only to God . |
| 28 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
| 29 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 30 | B B C news in the East Midlands at eight o'clock with Mike . |