Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 But the Public Order Act of 1986 goes further than either Lord Scarman or Sir Robert Mark had envisaged by giving new powers to the police to impose conditions on public assemblies as well as on processions .
2 Margaret Thatcher and Ruby Wax tie for bottom place ; neither musters more than 1% support as sex objects .
3 In addition the external examiners review and comment on examination papers , moderate coursework where this constitutes more than 50 per cent of the assessment of a module , review other coursework if necessary , viva students if required , recommend awards , write annual reports and advise staff on the delivery of the course .
4 This represents less than 5 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital as at 24 March 1993 and is in line with guidelines issued by the Investment Protection Committees of the Association of British Insurers and the National Association of Pension Funds .
5 You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 .
6 Yes , computers have practically infinite branching capabilities , but this matters little when we are unable to foresee more than a very few of the more common possible learner responses .
7 The press in the GDR , not counting local periodicals and special interest magazines , is largely controlled by the party , though this matters little because almost all East Germans live on a diet of information provided by West German television and radio .
8 For Fig.4 g , the minimum [ Glu ] is given by , where V m is membrane potential and V X is the Nernst potential of X. ( This holds even if some HCO is transported , because . )
9 This holds even though much of the money for welfare programmes such as AFDC comes from the Federal exchequer ; the larger the average payment , above a Federally-prescribed minimum , the larger the proportion of it which has to be met from State revenues , so that generous State governments are taxing their own residents in order to support their generosity ( see Tresch , 1975 ) .
10 This occurs even though they apparently retain the " true " meaning of physical perception .
11 Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain .
12 This happens even if he subsequently rolls a 6 for his ‘ Eadbangerz Test .
13 This happens long before they come into a residential establishment .
14 This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all .
15 This exists primarily because of the government 's desire to finance a substantial part of its expenditure by cheap money rather than by taxation .
16 This includes more than 1m council tenants in England who have exercised their right to buy .
17 Although it appears to be the same principle that promotes sympathy for South African blacks in their country , this confirms rather than vitiates the point that the form and meaning of racist discourses depends on and varies in context and enables a range of verbal and practical interactions and positions .
18 This ends abruptly when the two finally meet and discover that ‘ fornication by airmail ’ is more enjoyable than the real thing .
19 This applies even where ( as was usual ) the stable incorporated a loft for the storage of hay so that this fodder could be pitched readily into the racks in the stalls below , because the loft exploited the roof space and was rarely built as a full-height upper storey .
20 This applies even if your employees paid no contributions in a tax year .
21 This applies even if one of you , unknown to the other , has gone on a mad spending spree .
22 This applies even if it is described as a ‘ reimbursement ’ .
23 This applies even if he seems to be selling them too quickly or too cheaply .
24 This applies even if the change only affects a user manual .
25 Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) .
26 This applies equally whether we are talking about the sedimentary layers of the cake itself or the palaeontological currants within each layer .
27 And this applies particularly when the actual freedom for manoeuvre that a teacher has is limited .
28 This applies particularly when the bricks come from Ryarsh 's three complementary ranges — Sandlime , Flintlime , and the Village range , which are generally manufactured to Class 3 strength , which means they are load-bearing .
29 This applies only if there is full acceptance of the proposition that mankind 's need for a ‘ god ’ , can be completely satisfied by the concept of a ‘ god ’ developed with developing life , and therefore definable .
30 They have a huge facilitation effect of words overtly rehearsed , although this applies only when the words are not confusable in sound .
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