Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other fishing stations of JTR 's time on the west coast suffered the collapse of the herring industry earlier and have kept alive mostly through tourism ( though Stornoway still tenuously has oil and fishing links ) . |
| 2 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I regret the job losses at Clydesdale , which are due fundamentally to overcapacity in seamless tubes . |
| 3 | Apart from random fluctuations , due mostly to sampling and response errors ( the latter are very common in retrospective surveys ) , the relationship between infant mortality and birth order took reversed " J " , " U " or " J " shaped forms in most of the sampled communities . |
| 4 | It is unlikely that there is a transition between the minor forms and the major ones : indeed , there seem to be fundamental differences between the two ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) , including the fact that the minor forms , being due mainly to surface creep , have the coarser grains in the ridges , while the larger forms , due mostly to saltation , tend to have the finer material near the crests . |
| 5 | Our results also showed that plasma and urine cAMP and cGMP values were abnormally high in coeliac disease patients who had not been treated , and became normal only after treatment when clinical , biochemical , and histological remission was achieved . |
| 6 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 7 | These socio-economic differences in school-leaving age are not due entirely to IQ differences . |
| 8 | The relatedness of fetal mortality to birth intervals is widely discussed in the relevant literature but , due perhaps to lack of reliable data even from developed countries , without resolution . |
| 9 | If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 10 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 11 | This glove has since fulfilled my requirements for treasure hunting being tough enough , warm enough and dry enough for use on land sites , the beach and — obviously underwater . |
| 12 | It was n't performance-intensive enough for Silicon Grahpics Inc , but included stuff like multi-processor support that was completely unimportant in a mainstream Intel competitor , but yet it remained hard to design and debug . |
| 13 | However , while interest on a loan falls due regardless of ability to pay , dividends on redeemable preference shares can be paid only if there are sufficient distributable reserves available . |
| 14 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
| 15 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 16 | The polymer solution is separated from the pure solvent by a membrane , permeable only to solvent molecules . |
| 17 | Though crops can be raised for local consumption in favoured areas of Alaska and Siberia , efficient horticulture is possible only under glass and with considerable inputs of energy ; it is generally cheaper and more reliable to bring in produce by road or air from the south . |
| 18 | I wonder whether eventually admissions will be possible only during working hours but not during lunch or coffee breaks . |
| 19 | A public road threads a delightful passage through woodlands in the company of river and loch for the first few miles , ending at a car park from which further progress is possible only by walking — and further progress should certainly be made . |
| 20 | This bone-white structure is almost half a mile high , a feat of engineering made possible only by magic . |
| 21 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 22 | Technology from the semiconductor industry has allowed an experiment in fundamental physics previously possible only in theory . |
| 23 | In Verbivore Brooke-Rose makes use of techniques that are possible only in prose narrative : the mixing of documentary-like realism with ‘ events ’ which are unthinkable from a visual or aural point of view , and the circular embedding of narrative fragments . |
| 24 | Her mind was self-referring and exclusive as theirs were not — impersonal only in relation to the teasing-out of the intellectually taxing problem . |
| 25 | The sleek hull of a Viking boat was specially designed to be shallow enough and narrow enough for use on navigable rivers , along which Norsemen brought fire and the sword . |
| 26 | Even at this stage it is preferable only to sketch in secondary details , fragmentary accompaniment ideas , etc. , before completing a whole section of the main subject matter . |
| 27 | They were : offences triable only on indictment ; offences triable only summarily ; and offences triable either way . |
| 28 | This is the most serious of the offences in the Act , and is triable only on indictment and attracts a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment . |
| 29 | For ladies , we have a luxurious health and beauty salon , where our trained beauty therapists and hairdresser will be happy to give you a professional all over body treatment . |
| 30 | None of them were the graphical , scientific and engineering markets beloved amongst Unix workstation vendors , and the Oki machine was perhaps not strong enough on I/O to handle document imaging , for instance . |