Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Three of the studies pointed out that this was common in elderly patients , and that this indicated they should receive lower and/or less frequent doses .
2 Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training .
3 The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years .
4 The article in your February issue ( No.15 , p.4 ) concerning the UNIDROIT meeting to discuss the Draft Preliminary Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects was much appreciated in alerting the world of curators , collectors , and dealers to an important further step in the process of harmonising disparate laws on the international traffic in cultural objects .
5 [ Preliminary draft Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects ]
6 A number of important topics will be on the agenda for discussion ; EEC fiscal policies in the light of 1993 ; the restitution of stolen or illegally exported works of art ; the progress on legislation regarding endangered species and protected materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell ; and the often prickly relations between dealers and auction houses .
7 ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’
8 The euphemistic linguistic representation of sexual foreplay as in L'Esquiriel may be titillating to different readers to various possible degrees , but in general such presentations in the fabliaux are either too absurd or too blatant , or both of these , for the fabliaux to stand any serious comparison with the verbal eroticism of modern pornographic narrative .
9 With fifty or so subject boards and panels operating by the beginning of the 1970s there were serious problems of managing and regulating the processes concerned .
10 In the course of the itinerary outlined above , for instance , travellers would come across a fair number of the fifty or so Emmental saw-mills , and from their observation of farms and farmland would be able to appreciate the force of the Emmental saying " An Emmental farm without woodland is like a bed without a blanket " .
11 The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly .
12 This is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas .
13 Thus , the main purpose of identifying these risk factors in clinical practice is to allow the physician to decide which patients will require more prolonged or more potent ulcer treatment .
14 Whenever she accompanied him , whether to a glossy film premiére or a major speech , they reported on the clothes she was wearing , the hairstyle , the hat , the jewellery , whether she looked well , or strained or too thin .
15 Certain arts which are not profitable or even viable in market terms are sustained by specific institutions such as foundations , by organizations of subscribers , and still by some private patronage .
16 And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight .
17 Describing the liberal- minded students as " rowdies and trouble-makers " , he treated their concerns not as a social , political or even intellectual matter of significance , but as a short-term problem of public order .
18 Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ .
19 Throughout your IT project , whether highly specific or totally all-embracing , we have the practical experience and product capability to complement your decision-making process .
20 It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless .
21 That friend said Diana had never sounded more depressed or hopelessly forlorn .
22 It is just not realized that it is possible or even legal to arrange a funeral without employing undertakers — a gap in public knowledge which , of course , the undertakers do little to fill .
23 If mixing is seen as possible or even beneficial , then what is the best mix in each type of organisation ?
24 At the outset I questioned whether , given the nature of what arts education claims to be about , it is possible or even desirable to assess or examine children 's work in this area .
25 He did not say this as if he was asking Caspar as if six Humans might be possible or even negotiable .
26 Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh .
27 To Chaucer , as to the old countryman , what we might regard as broad or even bawdy is a plain fact of nature , as neutral or objective as — to use Chaucer 's own word — the engendering of the simple flower .
28 It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose .
29 So the development of skills , whether relatively broad or occupationally specific , is not an issue in itself .
30 They have failed because of the tyranny which stems from a narrow curriculum rather than because the curriculum has been too broad or too diffuse .
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