Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 2 | We have located the decisive break in semantic character between ‘ fully transparent ’ and ‘ to some degree opaque ’ , rather than between ‘ completely opaque ’ and ‘ not completely opaque ’ , as this groups together more satisfactorily elements with significantly similar properties . |
| 3 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 4 | And correspondingly , not to have a job is highly unfavourable so people outside paid work are considered inferior . |
| 5 | they 're just simple really measures of the urgency of the situation . |
| 6 | This , in turn , improved my singles game considerably and I won the Baghdad Open one year playing against Indians in the main , who were horrified that I insisted we played in the heat of a Baghdad afternoon when it was normally well over 110° in the shade , and there was no shade — mad dogs and Scotsmen ! |
| 7 | Unless it is possible to prove the identification of History with Truth , as Sartre tried to do , then the claim that a single univocal History is not relative only works by removing all other elements in the set to which it could be compared , thus making a set of one . |
| 8 | There seemed little reason to expect conditions to be more favourable further east under Mesozoic cover ; few wells enter the thrust sheets which are expected there , and none are deep enough to prove what lies beneath them . |
| 9 | The angling press has reported a spate of trigger fish along our shores , once an uncommon capture , now more frequent possibly thanks to global warming . |
| 10 | Suppose the iterations have proceeded so far that only contributions from the two nearly-equal eigenvalues remain . |
| 11 | I 'd say mainly verbal just confirmation of orders |
| 12 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 13 | erm On social security and health together it 's about ten percentage points higher in West Germany erm and about six percentage points higher in France than in the U K And I must say I do wonder why in West Germany erm you 've got half as many again doctors per hundred thousand of the population of the U K and only about two-thirds as many nurses , which does suggest , you know , differences in national approaches to things like health care . |
| 14 | Also some ratios are fairly crude eg Index of Labour Turnover , which shows the position in gross terms and gives no indication as to whether turnover is spread throughout the organization or is heavily concentrated in one department or in one occupation . |
| 15 | About 130 ad Papias of Hierapolis in Asia Minor recorded traditions about the authorship of the gospels of Matthew and Mark , but also knew a story about Jesus found in the non-canonical ‘ Gospel according to the Hebrews ’ and was quite convinced that the mind of Jesus was captured less from written books than from the oral teaching of those seniors who had known apostles personally . |
| 16 | But now seven o'clock strikes in the market at Cavaillon . |
| 17 | Surprisingly practical yet loads of fun , with a sound which suits a varied range of styles . |
| 18 | It 's quite interesting though sort of thinking |
| 19 | Unfortunately this only works in MS-DOS 3.3 and later . |
| 20 | He faces three early-season ‘ tests ’ against the World XV assembled for the NZRFU centenary celebrations , two home Tests against Ireland , then three away Tests against Australia , with the Bledisloe Cup at stake in each . |
| 21 | Under her , there have been 30–35 standing-committees and just over 120 ad hocs in six and a half years . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's very different only qualifying for 30 minutes and not for an hour . |