Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . a short drive from the capital , is one of the Punjab cities where Nawa Shariff is strongest . |
| 2 | From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial . |
| 3 | No matter what other people may say , do or think , and no matter what you may even have begun to believe yourself , there are two strong reasons why God thinks you 're an OK person . |
| 4 | There were highly technical reasons why Copernicus believed that a heliostatic model for the universe would ease the task of predicting planetary positions . |
| 5 | The Romans and Danes had settlements here too and the village became permanent in Norman times when William the Conqueror 's brother Robert , Count of Mortain , built a manor house . |
| 6 | The word ‘ training ’ implies a moulding , a conformity to a stereotype , and is applied more usually to technical apprenticeships where rote learning of facts , routines and technical data is essential to enable a trade to be carried out efficiently . |
| 7 | Institutions can directly reflect political circumstances , and there can be no divorce between the implications of that feudal relationship and its expression in ‘ constitutional ’ forms — in appellate jurisdiction , in the devices used to delay homage or evade services , or in the administrative expedients whereby rights and revenues were upheld and increased . |
| 8 | The company , which returned to profit last year following a rigorous re-structuring programme ( CI No 2,010 ) , saw a sharp improvement in its continental European operations where revenues grew 17% , taking into account the fall in sterling . |
| 9 | In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time . |
| 10 | The chapter has also explored possible reasons why teachers adopt transmission patterns of teaching , but has looked at this not in terms of why teachers fail to do something else , but in terms of what purposes transmission teaching serves for them . |
| 11 | There are at least three possible reasons why W should have different relational partners in C(1) and C(2) . |
| 12 | My continuing work is convincing me that there are probably no inimical remedies when LM 's are used , that Lycopodium can probably follow Sulphur , and that LM potencies can be repeated often and safely in weak patients and in patients with serious tissue pathology . |
| 13 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 14 | On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off . |
| 15 | The legislation , adopted with only three votes against , effectively provided special status to Serbs in Knin and Glina , the two Croatian districts where Serbs formed an absolute majority . |
| 16 | The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality . |
| 17 | Its preoccupations with rhetoric and oratory envisaged public forms where language was used to persuade , exhort , or otherwise move . |
| 18 | To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper . |
| 19 | It reigned almost without limit in primitive times when property was still very scanty , and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal , anal form … . |
| 20 | Apart from the moral justification for such a legal responsibility , there are also the self-evident economic and social reasons why children should attend school . |
| 21 | Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all . |
| 22 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 23 | There are clear reasons why state power should encompass the means to conserve soil , reafforest and so on , but why do governments not do it successfully ? |
| 24 | Karezza was the technique described in Sanskrit and Hindi sexual treatises whereby men remained with erect penises inside their partners for hours on end , without reaching a climax themselves . |
| 25 | This is best for complex and highly organised skills where component parts interact . |
| 26 | But that was in an era of different attitudes when punches were swapped more freely and no one thought less of a player for standing his ground in a fracas . |
| 27 | the Dutch workplace is truly multilingual ; the workforce at Gebr , Meijer , for example , is already considered virtually bilingual in Dutch and German ( 70% understand German ; 20% speak it ) whilst 20% of all verbal communication on the shop floor is a mixture of languages where English forms approximately 20% of all dialogue — apparently because computer software is American . |
| 28 | He had reaped bountiful rewards where Sturt had again found his exploratory attempts frustrated . |
| 29 | Erm things go wrong and there are many different reasons why things go wrong . |
| 30 | There are many different reasons why people can experience difficulty in achieving or maintaining independence for the AL of maintaining a safe environment and , therefore , may require assistance from nurses or others . |