Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the council had a large Labour majority with political decision making often restricted to the Labour group and with little debate in committees . |
| 2 | Some of the more advanced authorities have already developed a career structure for care managers — a model which could prove a pointer for the rest of the country . |
| 3 | That stereotype speaks less for women 's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence , a social nuisance . |
| 4 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 5 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 6 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 7 | The third moment of situational change begins sometime after the Second World War — most strikingly with the advent of rock 'n' roll — and can be termed the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ . |
| 8 | Code of practice : Far-reaching proposals go much further than the code published by national newspapers . |
| 9 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 10 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 11 | The lower frequencies penetrate further , scanning a wider area , while the higher frequencies bounce off very small objects . |
| 12 | It seduced his imagination : woolly wisps streaming past told him nothing ; he could be flying into a mountainside … or diving … or two seconds away from a collision … |
| 13 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 14 | Strong fingers clamped brutally around her wrist , staying her action , and she was swung roughly about to meet the hard , questioning glare of one of Matilda 's Angevin guards . |
| 15 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 16 | Its President , Igor Smirnov [ see p. 38657 for his election ] , said in an interview on March 30 that reunification had effectively already begun , and that the Dnestr Republic favoured a federative structure with Moldova , not complete separatism . |
| 17 | Bernard declared ‘ No Smoking ’ throughout ; but Laura , pragmatic as ever , rather than countermanding him , simply had fifty ashtrays placed strategically around the château . |
| 18 | And , as it is also obvious that this tendency is becoming a worldwide one , it means that the game will in due course suffer everywhere as it has suffered in South Africa . |
| 19 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |
| 20 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 21 | Although the two Korean states remained technically in a state of war ( the hostilities having been ended in 1953 by an armistice but not a peace treaty ) , many commentators felt that the December agreements laid a realistic foundation for the negotiation of a full peace treaty . |
| 22 | Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools . |
| 23 | In America , 15 jumbo jets are being hired to take 200,000 of the one million advance copies ordered worldwide . |
| 24 | A general amnesty for the 4,000-5,000 Stasi spies still thought to be active in West Germany , originally approved by the West German Cabinet on Aug. 31 and then delayed , had not taken place as of late October 1990 . |
| 25 | ‘ It will be a pleasant change to do so . ’ |
| 26 | Classic narrative film , said Mulvey , constructs a male viewer by privileging the look of the male protagonist at the woman character(s) : as the camera follows this fictional male gaze so also is the spectator 's look directed at woman as object . |
| 27 | Use these for all sorts of things from training the software to recognize your handwriting , to calling up an on-screen keyboard when your calligraphic skills fail completely . |
| 28 | That Germany had also provided a comprehensive state insurance for sickness , accident , disability and unemployment for its people from an early date was thought by some to be implicated in that country 's economic success . |
| 29 | That purchase added around 3 percentage points to its share of the liquid milk market , taking it to 16 per cent , where it is now snapping at the heels of the second-largest operator , Dairy Crest , the marketing subsidiary of the MMB , which claims a market share of around 17 per cent . |
| 30 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |