Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the presence or absence of specificity may not matter much where the most serious penalty is an OFT or MMC inquiry . |
| 2 | Here was the strong arm of the law moving in where the seemingly soft-hearted and soft-headed welfare state feared to tread , the unwitting accomplice in benefit banditry . |
| 3 | The timber poles that have been illustrated here are ideal for retaining soil , especially where a rather tight curved wall is needed . |
| 4 | Surface pumps are preferable for some water gardens , especially where a relatively high ‘ head ’ of water is necessary , this ‘ head ’ being the vertical distance between water level and the highest point of discharge . |
| 5 | I can only stress that when we return to our dingy little squats after a hard day baiting rock gods and ignoring letters from readers , there 's nothing we like better than a long listen to Pink Floyd 's ‘ Animals ’ or Mr Oldfield 's ‘ Ommadawn ’ while soaking our horny feet in a scalding bowl of mushroom chow mein . |
| 6 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 7 | However it can be argued , on the basis of the evidence reviewed above , that admissions tutors can offer places to many categories of non-traditionally qualified students , confident that they will perform at least as well as and often better than the traditionally qualified students , particularly those with only average or below average qualifications . |
| 8 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 9 | This is a superb product , better than PageMaker 1.2 and , on paper at least , better than the long awaited upgrade , PageMaker 2.0 . |
| 10 | With a drop of 42% from the peak reached in 1990 the German Expressionist Index has held up better than the more volatile sectors of French and American painting . |
| 11 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 12 | Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind ! |
| 13 | The sense of betrayal and the risk of danger only served to intensify the experience , much more so than the most potent of drugs . |
| 14 | At a more advanced workshop , tutors with a professional interest may help explain techniques if this is required , though in the first instance the rough-and-ready style of amateurish video pays off more dividends as it intimidates beginners less than a smoothly polished film , and conveys the sense of ‘ being there ’ to the viewers . |
| 15 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
| 16 | Okay , we can now define a further notion called C command the phrase X C commands a phrase Y , if and only if A neither of X nor Y dominates the other so neither is directly above the other and in the path and B , the first branching node is dominating X , also dominates Y so let's find out if X and C commands to Y , you go up the tree from X and you find the branching node , the first branching node dominating X and see if that node also dominates Y. Okay . |
| 17 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 18 | Becky cautioned him against rushing into another venture before they had discovered what their profit margins were like , and then only if the rather elderly assistants knew what they were up to . |
| 19 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 20 | A good effect , especially if a mildly bizarre or impertinent characterization is required , is that obtained from two clarinets at two octaves distance , one in its upper register and the other in its chalumeau , and if an oboe is added in the middle octave the reediness is much enhanced and the penetrating power of the combination greatly increased . |
| 21 | The slim-bodied design of the Cut Saw enables it to be used right up to walls or floors , so protruding pipes , etc , can be sawn off almost flush , especially if a slightly flexible blade is used . |
| 22 | Already we 're seeing sector the er , those er new independent colleges coming along and saying do you recognize , er G M B and er during the single union agreement with UNISON and we 've got ta get our act together cos the only with thing that 's going on , we 're seeing local authorities getting smashed up and we 're seeing UNISON which will be going right across the board . |
| 23 | Beset by illness — with Gooch himself the most damaging victim of the last few weeks — and bemused by Indian spin , England must pull themselves together if a bitterly disappointing tour is not to become a total disaster . |
| 24 | By the end of the 1980s , partly as a result of deliberate government action , more perhaps because the unduly optimistic assumptions of Beveridge and other founders of the British welfare system were being falsified by financial and cultural factors ( such as the breakdown of the old nuclear family of fabled tradition ) , the welfare state was far less able to temper the asperities of a harsh and divided society . |
| 25 | Households in affluent suburbs threw away 70 per cent more paper and cardboard , 80 per cent more plastic , and 25 per cent more glass , whereas households on low-income council estates threw out more tin cans and significantly more " putrescibles " , i.e. food wastes that can be used to make compost " perhaps because the more affluent homes had compost heaps in their large gardens . |
| 26 | Momentary pleasures are given up , but only because a more lasting pleasure is promised later . |
| 27 | No 2 Countess waits patiently while the specially produced banner is displayed to the guest and press . |
| 28 | This was all the more so since the most fervent supporters of the League were precisely those traditional Liberal voters whose vacillations between the parties tended to determine the outcome of inter-war elections . |
| 29 | Secondly , we are at a critical juncture , much as a seriously ill person may reach a ‘ turning point at which the patient either begins to improve or sinks into a fatal decline ’ . |
| 30 | For as long as the most able pupils were , with the support of public money , taken from the comprehensive schools , the development of comprehensives with high academic standards would be frustrated . |