Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , this is the principal imperative of state action and should be energetically yet pragmatically pursued , based on rational calculation of the policies most likely to enhance or protect power and prestige internationally . |
| 2 | Think about the antecedent events most conducive to exercise , and the rewards most likely to maintain it . |
| 3 | The report was by no means as radical as that of Tudor Walters a quarter of a century earlier ; rather it confirmed the pre-war ideal , emphasizing the virtues of family life and the design of houses most likely to foster those virtues ( Bullock , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Edleston said that the products most likely to succeed were those which displayed quality standards , innovation and added value in a unique way at a reasonable price . |
| 5 | Kansas , North Dakota , Minnesota and Montana were the states most likely to benefit from the legislation . |
| 6 | A lat-ent macro-economic effect was that the social groups most likely to save bore a relatively light burden — important , perhaps , for the financing of economic growth . |
| 7 | They are joined by an increasing number of younger people throughout our businesses who bring with them new knowledge and skills so essential to maintain a lead against global competition and benefit from changes in technology . |
| 8 | Out of 72 cases only 20 resulted in the ministry obtaining compensation or remedial work at no cost to themselves . |
| 9 | All we can say is that logical , easily perceptible solutions are always preferable to enigmatic ones , which may have forms so difficult to perceive that to the listener they seem formless . |
| 10 | The answer , Darwin 's answer , is by gradual , step-by-step transformations from simple beginnings , from primordial entities sufficiently simple to have come into existence by chance . |
| 11 | The conduct of the War required fiscal policies sufficiently egalitarian to appease the conscience of even the most austere socialist . |
| 12 | Staff will probably move to different positions in the company and will ultimately leave for any of a number of reasons Information about such movements is particularly important in the assessment of personnel policies especially those relating to recruitment , training and deployment . |
| 13 | We shall explain its coming into existence as a consequence of gradual , cumulative , step-by-step transformations from simpler things , from primordial objects sufficiently simple to have come into being by chance . |
| 14 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 15 | There is a clear-cut favourable benefit-to-risk ratio for thrombolytic treatment of the elderly , but in the USA , patients over the age of 75 are six times less likely to receive such therapy than are younger patients . |
| 16 | In fact , when compared with another leading sensitive skincare brand in independent laboratory tests , the Sensiq Skin Care Collection was found to be seven times less likely to cause irritation . |
| 17 | For a given cholesterol level , women are four times less likely to develop coronary problems than men . |
| 18 | The Apex Trust work shows that ex-offenders in employment are three times less likely to offend than those who are unemployed , which is remarkable . |
| 19 | It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise , and encourage independent study . |
| 20 | So please come along with your problems , complaints , worries etc. ready to participate . |
| 21 | Before fricatives ( except palatal fricatives ) and voiced consonants generally , a long back vowel is favoured , with labial and nasal environments most inclined to display the rounded back vowel . |
| 22 | As part of a strategy to achieve self-sufficiency in food , he said , the government was to initiate a three-year pilot programme concentrating resources on 40 districts most able to contribute to food security efforts . |
| 23 | She proved immune to my lightheaded but rather leaden gallantries , the words so hard to shift around . |
| 24 | For the next eight months only 13 drinks a day were sold — compared to 600 million bottles a day now . |
| 25 | • Lie-flat books making recipes easy to follow and wipe clean covers so that stains and marks are easily removed . |
| 26 | Nevertheless he thought The Survivors sufficiently important to send to the Whitechapel Art Gallery 's survey , ‘ British Painting and Sculpture ’ , held in the autumn of 1954 . |
| 27 | This chapter has concentrated on exploring some problems of definition and interpretation which make speaker variables so difficult to handle , with particular reference to the variables of social class , sex , ethnicity and social network . |
| 28 | Of the 653 branches only 288 had given definite support to disaffiliation , some by small majorities . |
| 29 | Now , designing systems like that requires computers with big memories , much , much bigger than the ones that you can buy in your shop round the corner at the moment , and the programs are quite complicated , it 's quite difficult to do this sort of thing , but in principle there 's no reason why it should n't happen , and that would make computers much easier to learn to use . |
| 30 | Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility . |