Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | [ Preliminary draft Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects ] |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless . |
| 16 | That friend said Diana had never sounded more depressed or hopelessly forlorn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If mixing is seen as possible or even beneficial , then what is the best mix in each type of organisation ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He did not say this as if he was asking Caspar as if six Humans might be possible or even negotiable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose . |
| 24 | So the development of skills , whether relatively broad or occupationally specific , is not an issue in itself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 27 | Boiled Eggs , skulls & skinheads ( no doubt many more ) but skinhead was the wittiest , most descriptive & most difficult to say without sneering . |
| 28 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 29 | The Ronseal varnishes used here can also be applied to a painted or previously varnished surface that has been rubbed down with a fine abrasive paper . |
| 30 | They are either too lazy or too uninformed to do anything but fail to fulfil their potential . ’ |