Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that few managers read on , or that most mainstream management academics see business ethics as a ‘ soft ’ subject . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like the look of that bull , ’ said Lydia , ‘ or that simply colossal pig . |
| 3 | The same analyses that have undermined rehabilitation have also undermined some classical deterrent assumptions : the evidence does not suggest that more punishment automatically provides more deterrence or that more serious crimes necessarily require more punishment to deter them . |
| 4 | She reported initial agreement on medical evacuations from the city , where some badly wounded people have lain for months without being able to get proper treatment or artificial limbs . |
| 5 | There are still very many families in Tiree who pay no rent , and these have a settlement of their own , called ‘ The Moss , ’ where some very poor creatures dwell , and must have but a miserable livelihood . |
| 6 | From GISSI-2 and ISIS-3 , addition of subcutaneous heparin is unlikely to reduce mortality but will cause 1 or 2 further non-fatal cerebral haemorrhages and 3 other bleeds necessitating transfusion . |
| 7 | The wording of subsection ( 1 ) shows quite clearly that it is addressed to the legal purpose of legal effect of consent to treatment , namely , to prevent such treatment constituting in law a trespass to the person , and that it does so by making the consent of a 16- or 17-year-old as effective as if he were ‘ of full age . ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately there are many secondary schools , especially in the denominational sector , where this strictly educational approach is not followed . |
| 9 | But how could she ever predict anything where this totally unpredictable man was concerned ? |
| 10 | Sometimes personal skill levels can be reduced or different more available skills can be employed in better working conditions |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it seems highly probable that the persisting biochemical abnormalities ( phenylalanine excess or some closely related change ) at least make a substantial contribution to the neurological impairment . |
| 12 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 13 | Every so often , and it 's not often enough , we at Guitarist Mansions get a review guitar through the post which is well-built , reasonably priced , nicely styled and which does what it says it does , with no design gimmickry , cheap glitter or high-falutin' bumph claiming it to be a ‘ sound revolution ’ , or some equally laughable piece of flannel . |
| 14 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 15 | It may be clipped classical , random cottage , modern high-tech , or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium , that no one has ever imagined before , but which exists in your head and wants to get out . |
| 16 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 17 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 18 | However , mail-shots are gaining in popularity and 53 percent now consider them as either their first or second most effective marketing technique . |
| 19 | Lotus calls this Perspective mode — you can see three parts of one sheet or three completely separate sheets on one screen |
| 20 | Rather , two or three immediately productive features only should be discussed and drilled . |
| 21 | It was ‘ policy in love ’ , ‘ policy ’ being one of the Elizabethans ' two or three most derogatory words , denoting hyper-cunning and treachery . |
| 22 | The agony of Othello 's realization that he has been duped into killing Desdemona is one of the two or three most intense sequences in Shakespeare . |
| 23 | Lambe emerges as amongst the two or three most accomplished representatives of that generation of composers who brought to maturity the uniquely English manner of late fifteenth-century composition . |
| 24 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 25 | As he gets fitter , he may be able to do two or three physically demanding sessions each day , interspersed with lighter activities and rest periods . |
| 26 | After two or three fairly neutral coloured inks had been used for the printing — say , brown for the foreground and blue for the sky and more distant scenery — the finishing was by hand , and washes of great subtlety and precision were laid on to give the desired effects . |
| 27 | I suspect that two or three really close friends are all that we can manage if we are to give and receive all the important things that friendship offers . |
| 28 | If it is always assumed that they are intellectually inferior , what else is there for them to do … every time teachers are constantly amazed by the fact that in the first year they have at the moment there are two or three really bright West Indian boys , and it 's of constant amazement to people like Mr G … ‘ my goodness he 's bright where does he get it from ’ . |
| 29 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |
| 30 | The argument rests in part on the pervasive nature of deixis ( see Chapter 2 below ) in natural languages , for sentences like ( II ) are true or false only relative to contextual parameters , thanks to the fact that I , now and the tense of am are variables given specific values only on particular occasions of utterance ( i.e. ( II ) is true only when spoken by certain speakers , those who are sixty-three , or true of individuals only at certain times , when they are sixty-three ) : ( 11 ) I am now sixty-three years old These facts seem to establish that truth conditions must be assigned to utterances , i.e. sentences with their associated contexts of utterance , not to sentences alone ( or , if one likes , truth conditions include context conditions ) . |