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

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1 What we have witnessed in recent years is a subtle change whereby the courts , often without alluding to the authorities mentioned , have reviewed decisions to test their evidentiary basis .
2 The cubs will be released onto private estates where the staff can keep their eyes on them .
3 ‘ After that scramble up the cliff ?
4 Farmers , whether on a large or small scale , faced new demands on their managerial abilities and technical skills almost every day — decisions and actions they usually had to make and take on their own .
5 because their husbands have made these settlements , often at very emotional times when the women were not really in a position to really make sure they
6 The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle .
7 In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young .
8 Seven or eight hours later the 20-page script would be finished and the Teacher 's depleted .
9 The musicians lowered their instruments and stared into the concealing field where the rye seemed to move as though an invisible giant 's footsteps crushed it down .
10 Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly .
11 The election result , which reversed that of the December 1986 election when the PNM won only three seats to the NAR 's 33 [ see pp. 35194-95 ] , represented an emphatic rejection of Robinson 's handling of an economy heavily dependent on oil exports .
12 S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries .
13 It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order .
14 It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order .
15 But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist .
16 In inflationary times almost every ageing person experiences some anxiety about how their finances will hold out , leading to severe economies over food , fuel , and replacement of clothing and household goods .
17 They provide an intermediate level of reasons to which one appeals in normal cases where a need for a decision arises .
18 Go further up and you reach ultrasonic frequencies where the noise can be heard by dogs and not humans .
19 Conservation of Vital Resources — where enjoyment by future generations depends on our custodianship ; eg. minerals ; habitats and species that people value ; amenity of the countryside , urban landscape , historic heritage whenever the irreversible decisions are taken ; reduction of waste ; recycling ; and import controls on endangered species from overseas .
20 The anecdotal evidence is that parties often want informal , non-legalistic meetings where the expert can hear what the parties ' non-legal representatives have to say , without any lawyers being present .
21 Quadrant 4 covers the type of innovative activities where the goals and outputs can be fairly well specified and the means to achieve them are relatively clear .
22 For the plaintiffs it was submitted that in each case either the only relevant contract was between the borrower and the valuer or , if there was a contract to which the building society was a party , its obligation was limited to instructing a competent valuer .
23 So far in each case where an error 's been proved , the banks paid back the money overcharged .
24 THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office .
25 For Joan , though she had not recognized the fact until that instant when the words crossed her lips , had meant what she said .
26 One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced .
27 For example , the assignee may be absolved through the operation of the bankruptcy laws : the classic case where an original lessee may have to pay .
28 This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets .
29 Thus , if one takes a hypothetical case where the price was fixed at 10 francs per kilo , all grapes coming from the 100% crus — like Avize , Cramant , Bouzy , for example — would cost 10 francs per kilo , while grapes coming from the 94%-rated Rilly-la-Montagne would cost 9.40 francs and so forth .
30 There could be many possible reasons why the surgeon refuses to operate .
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