Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since so few doctors possess such skills , perhaps we can learn them from teachers outside the medical profession ( at least until there is a sufficiently large body of trained teachers within the profession ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 3 | With a small sample it is not advisable to carry out the analysis in terms of individual papers since so few respondents read any single paper . |
| 4 | Similarly it was necessary to move the focus of interest from the question ‘ Why do so few women do physical science ? ’ to the related , but often unasked questions of ‘ Why do so few men take the humanities ? ’ 'Why do so many women choose English , rather than physics , or chemistry ? ’ 'What happens to those students who make these choices — particularly if their choice is unconventional ? ’ |
| 5 | Constructive criticism of McClellan 's system is difficult since so few librarians have any practical experience of its application . |
| 6 | By the same token , cinemas had no operators , and so few halls remained open . |
| 7 | However , since so few children attended some of these types of school , d is often calculated from proportions at the extremes of the scale ; if we rank the class exclusivity of schools on the basis of the magnitude of the d s , we seem to be told that the secondary moderns were the most selective , followed by the grammar schools . |
| 8 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 9 | Obviously some areas have more classes and teachers than others so the following is suggested : — |
| 10 | Obviously some areas have more classes and teachers than others so the following is suggested : — |
| 11 | Foods tend to contain mixtures of these fatty acids , but obviously some foods have higher proportions of some than others . |
| 12 | So some insects perceive infrared and ultraviolet . |
| 13 | Perhaps such oversights have more to do with the fact that we would prefer to forget . |
| 14 | The people who end up with detectors on the SSC will be benefiting from a huge American investment ( attempts to raise money abroad are meeting with little success ) and they will be in a position to dominate American particle physics for a decade , so such considerations carry some weight . |
| 15 | The protector of all such " weak persons " was the king and so such disputes invited royal as well as ecclesiastical intervention . |
| 16 | Perhaps these techniques have that irresistible fascination of overhearing gossip about oneself . |
| 17 | Basically these problems attend many surgical operations , and the question resolves itself into whether the transsexual should be allowed to consent ; whether , in other words , the state has an interest in striking out such consent , and thereby rendering the surgeon who goes ahead liable in tort , on the ground that he can not rely on such consent . |
| 18 | Together these features offer considerable potential benefits to efficiency , flexibility , refinement and packaging , but in the past these attributes have been more than offset by traditional two-stroke failings of poor fuel consumption coupled with high emissions . |
| 19 | Together these men produce more than half of all Britain 's coal . |
| 20 | Mark 's not a legs-man , so these limbs come last — |
| 21 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 22 | So these guys undergo these horrifying initiation rituals to prove you know that they want to join the club band and i if they pass the initiation test then they 're joined in and then they 're given a wife . |
| 23 | Why do all these corridors look alike ? |
| 24 | Although the chances of a complaint being made or a prosecution being brought in these circumstances seem remote , it is conceivable that a prosecutor with censorious views could make use of the legislation for purposes for which it was not intended . |
| 25 | In the first place , the lack of significant correlations with regard to this group of features may result from the limited variance observed in most studies : apparently all adults make such adjustments when speaking to young children . |
| 26 | From the wide range of modules available it is possible to put together many combinations to suit individual programmes . |
| 27 | So many critics wanted Modern Times to be a satire on capitalism whereas Chaplin was merely using factory production and the depression as a back-cloth for a series of impish gags . |
| 28 | So many labs require that gypsum is produced . |
| 29 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 30 | Charles thought that the whole affair was now out of his hands , and , though it was unsatisfactory that so many questions remained unanswered , at least some kind of justice had been done . |