Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who is that munching cashews on the tape . |
| 2 | She had little private sides to her life . |
| 3 | In an extensive review arising from IGCP 61 Kidson ( 1982 ) has concluded that the search for a universal eustatic curve should be regarded as over ; that regional differences in changes in the geoid mean that eustatic sea level curves can have only regional validity ; and that no part of the earth 's crust can be regarded as wholly stable . |
| 4 | These assume that centralised , parliamentary government will cease and that regional administrations under military and civil service commissioners will endeavour to operate essential services . |
| 5 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 6 | Provided there is no physically damaging effect , it would seem that what is seen , said , done , heard or physically felt by the mother has no effect whatever , but that emotional factors during pregnancy can have good or bad effect . |
| 7 | The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . |
| 8 | The Commission has therefore proposed that such inhibiting factors should be eliminated and that specific forms of cross-frontier business organization should be created . |
| 9 | We have shown here that specific defects in this single gene ( P ) are also likely to result in the phenotype of type II oculocutaneous albinism in man and pink-eyed dilution ( p ) in mouse . |
| 10 | He suggests that climatic variations almost certainly influence personal behaviour and that specific types of weather can cause an increase in anti-social behaviour in many groups , ranging from schoolchildren causing havoc in the classroom to outbreaks of violence among those taking part in mass demonstrations . |
| 11 | Any sort of housing standard to be effective must be given the force of law , but the sad lesson of history is that specific words of the law , while intended in spirit to be a minimum statement of what is acceptable , are usually interpreted and followed as the maximum of what has to be achieved in practice . |
| 12 | It suggests not only that prevailing approaches to the subject involve the selection and presentation of knowledge which legitimates the status quo and the omission of that which might challenge it , but also that the very organisation of the curriculum into discrete units militates against the asking of the sorts of questions that might indicate that the world could be different . |
| 13 | For example , ‘ it is self-evident that enslavement as a form of punishment is impossible without a slave economy ; that prison labour is impossible without manufacture or industry , that monetary fines for all classes of society are impossible without a monetary economy ’ . |
| 14 | The problem is that short-term falls in the price of energy can decrease the pace of investment in long-term energy savings . |
| 15 | A man as big as Steen should n't have to be involved with little second-rate crooks like Bill Sweet . |
| 16 | Well I was thinking that fifty pounds off the gas board . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a wonderful opportunity , Christian , and I 'm grateful for your trust in me but you 've already agreed to sell me that fifty acres of new land . |
| 18 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 19 | An amnesty was signed into law on July 2 , following the announcement on June 19 that political opponents of the regime in voluntary exile were free to return " to assist in the national reconstruction effort " . |
| 20 | It can also be argued that the economists ' justification for aid has never been its real rationale , but that political considerations of strategic security by the donors have conditioned its distribution and nature , in some cases even allowing military support to be classified as aid . |
| 21 | Although it is possible to interpret ‘ freedom of the press ’ in such a way as to include within it the ‘ freedom ’ to make a political choice and to volunteer one 's support , it does seem that political parties of the left are rarely favoured by newspapers . |
| 22 | Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing . |
| 23 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 24 | They mean that slum clearances still lack completion ; that low standards of living still persist , and that the lessons taught in the school and clinic , and good social habits , do not always survive the pressure of bad home circumstances when young people have passed from supervision . |
| 25 | Another cause is that complete regions of DNA are transposed from one part of the molecule to another , or that foreign DNA from a virus has been inserted . |
| 26 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 27 | All one can say is that discreet inquiries in the neighbourhood produced nothing , save to show that he certainly appears not to be in the flat now . " |
| 28 | I made the point earlier that descriptive facts about actual usage do not necessarily determine what is to be included in a language course . |
| 29 | This ensures that the net remains twist-tree and that odd pieces of debris , twigs or whatever , can be removed as you progress . |
| 30 | Other , less molecular , biologists had protested in outrage that what was true for E. coli was not necessarily true for E.lephant , that biology has its diversity as well as its universals and that multicellular organisms with complex brains are not merely aggregates of 10 or so single cells ; the properties of systems of cells include relationships between those cells which are not inherent in any single unit . |