Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] comprehensive [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The universal and comprehensive nature of the health service enshrined these principles more perfectly than any other social service . |
| 2 | The swift and comprehensive response by the Ministry to a concerted effort by East Anglia 's wildlife conservation lobby , undoubtedly took John Cousins by surprise . |
| 3 | Thank you for the informative and comprehensive article on the work of Familymakers ( ‘ Making families ’ , 25 March ) . |
| 4 | His reputation , as well as the meticulous and comprehensive work on the Flettner rotor done at Gottingen , were instrumental in finding the Germania shipyards in Kiel ( owned by the krupp family ) and the Hamburg-America Lines as partners . |
| 5 | ‘ Fraudulent conversion ’ is accepted as the starting point for the new and comprehensive definition of theft and ‘ dishonest appropriation ’ is chosen as a synonym . |
| 6 | Your notes should provide a concise but comprehensive account of a given topic . |
| 7 | The theoretical framework of regulation was developed in France in the 1970s and first published as a coherent and comprehensive approach to studying the dynamics of capitalist economies by Aglietta ( 1979 ) . |
| 8 | The Institute will be devoting considerable time and effort , in the coming months , to taking a leading role in the consultation process and preparing a coherent and comprehensive response to the important issues the APB has raised . |
| 9 | A complete and comprehensive chapter is set aside on sample preparations . |
| 10 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 11 | This was nonetheless an opportunity … for a clear and comprehensive understanding to be reached by the Bank . ’ |
| 12 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 13 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 14 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 15 | ‘ This is a clear and comprehensive strategy . |
| 16 | A clear and comprehensive guide to first aid for babies , children and young adults , it is quite simply , excellent . |
| 17 | Vocabulary provides a clear and comprehensive overview of this important area of language teaching . |
| 18 | Consequently , this chapter is not intended to provide a detailed and comprehensive documentation of the aids available in the UK . |
| 19 | One important element of the improved procedures is the introduction of a detailed and comprehensive budget review process during each year . |
| 20 | The present study is intended as a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the many ways in which the criminal justice system of England and Wales has changed since 1945 . |
| 21 | Such a register carefully maintained in a builder 's organisation will within a few years provide a detailed and comprehensive list of the majority of the subcontract labour available in an area , with consequent improvement in efficiency in locating a suitable work-force . |
| 22 | While a number of useful studies have been made of changes in particular fields , there has been no detailed and comprehensive review of all the changing assumptions , policies and practices of the last 40 years . |
| 23 | Apart from the sacrosanct hours from midday until two , the main street is quietly busy , with queues at the two boulangeries for each fresh batch of baguettes , petanque players under the plane trees , and , on Sundays , a tiny but comprehensive market . |
| 24 | Rationality can very properly be specified not in terms exclusively of methods supposed to lead to truth but more generally in terms of methods for reaching a consistent and comprehensive stance towards the world as it really is , something perfectly possible in ethical thought as the attitudinist describes it . |
| 25 | Catholicism as an ideology and the Church as an institution were central to the strength of Spanish conservatism both before and during the Republic , thanks to the power not only of school , pulpit and press , but also of a large and comprehensive network of church-sponsored social , professional and farmers ' organizations within which much of the Catholic population was enmeshed . |
| 26 | It is important to note here that there is no single term which can accurately be used as a brief but comprehensive designation for all these heterogeneous groups . |
| 27 | The most significant element of TML 's work still to be completed is commissioning , which includes the design and installation of a complex and comprehensive software system for all data control and transmissions networks . |
| 28 | France has a complex and comprehensive programme of national aids , many of which apply to its LFAs . |
| 29 | Piers Paul Read begins with a short but comprehensive overview of the Soviet nuclear energy programme since the Second World War . |
| 30 | In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ . |