Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 2 | It was a useful review of services but not a profound analysis of problems in this field and it makes for rather bland reading . |
| 3 | We stayed at John Bannon 's Hotel in Manali Orchards for rather more time than we had intended . |
| 4 | They are , for example , responsible for rather different population sizes . |
| 5 | For effectively open-circuit operation the resistance of the bias circuit has to be high enough or a choke of high enough reactance has to be connected in series with it . |
| 6 | It decided that only fundamental , structural changes to the organization and management of services would bring about the environment necessary for locally integrated community care to flourish . |
| 7 | Most companies , although indicating a preference for locally manufactured equipment , have made extensive use of suppliers from outside Wales , generally because they feel that local suppliers can not meet their needs . |
| 8 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 9 | Again , for remarkably small outlay , you will have added new interest and improved the quality of the room . |
| 10 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 11 | Necessarianism was thus not fatalistic but optimistic in its concern for properly effective motive , encouraging constant effort . |
| 12 | … selection should not be left to individual librarians to be based on ‘ the mood of the speaker ’ , and this is not happening in authorities that are recognising the need for properly thought-out selection policies based on the political policies of the local authority , together with an analysis of the local community , in the context of wider statutory provision across the authority . |
| 13 | Moreover , numerical examples , experimental games , and such empirical case studies as have been carried out ( see , for example , Rees , 1993 ) seem to suggest that typically punishments far outweigh the gains to short-run deviation for empirically reasonable discount rates and so it is really not hard to explain collusion . |
| 14 | Note isotherms for numerically simulated summer and winter surface temperatures ( in°C ) . |
| 15 | This work intensified in the course of the war , as a result of which the guild formed a close working relationship with the Women 's Labour League , laying the foundation for greatly increased involvement of women in local Labour parties ( Cole 1948 b p 141 ) . |
| 16 | The Peace Now movement claimed on June 17 to have documentary evidence of Israeli plans for greatly increased settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 17 | Part of the justification ‘ for greatly increased expenditure on universities must be their success in strengthening the professional infrastructure of our society ’ . |
| 18 | Opposition victories over the ruling communist parties in both republics threatened to deepen Yugoslavia 's political and ethnic crises , the victors having put forward manifestos featuring demands for greatly increased autonomy for the republics , even to the point of secession from Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | In addition their ‘ Blue Wonder ’ heliotrope has been specially bred for greatly improved germination , a bonus with any flower . |
| 20 | For perhaps one second it remained a river bank , but then it became the shingle and sand beach fifty yards from my childhood home . |
| 21 | But it is a strange life when one sees one 's friends for perhaps one month in the year , and then we all go our separate ways until we can grasp another opportunity — sometimes between flights at airports ! |
| 22 | The combination of 8MB of RAM and that massive disk cache makes for exceedingly quick operation . |
| 23 | What is serious about so much school work generally is that so frequently it seems to fail to have any deep effect on life outside the classroom . |
| 24 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 25 | It is , in fact , impossible for management to have a direct , personal feeling and knowledge about so many business environments . |
| 26 | In particular , Anthony Talbot of Alton was worth only one mark , though his income was ten . |
| 27 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 28 | Freire originally developed his ideas through highly successful literacy programs for slumdwellers in Brazil . |
| 29 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 30 | As described in more detail in Chapters 5 and 6 , the latter results from the growth in employment in public-sector services in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less unionized labour such as married women ( Fothergill and Gudgin , 1982 ; Massey , 1984 ) . |