Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the studies pointed out that this was common in elderly patients , and that this indicated they should receive lower and/or less frequent doses . |
| 2 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 3 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 4 | A number of important topics will be on the agenda for discussion ; EEC fiscal policies in the light of 1993 ; the restitution of stolen or illegally exported works of art ; the progress on legislation regarding endangered species and protected materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell ; and the often prickly relations between dealers and auction houses . |
| 5 | With fifty or so subject boards and panels operating by the beginning of the 1970s there were serious problems of managing and regulating the processes concerned . |
| 6 | In the course of the itinerary outlined above , for instance , travellers would come across a fair number of the fifty or so Emmental saw-mills , and from their observation of farms and farmland would be able to appreciate the force of the Emmental saying " An Emmental farm without woodland is like a bed without a blanket " . |
| 7 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 8 | This is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas . |
| 9 | Thus , the main purpose of identifying these risk factors in clinical practice is to allow the physician to decide which patients will require more prolonged or more potent ulcer treatment . |
| 10 | And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight . |
| 11 | Describing the liberal- minded students as " rowdies and trouble-makers " , he treated their concerns not as a social , political or even intellectual matter of significance , but as a short-term problem of public order . |
| 12 | Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ . |
| 13 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 14 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 15 | The Ronseal varnishes used here can also be applied to a painted or previously varnished surface that has been rubbed down with a fine abrasive paper . |
| 16 | In heavily trafficked areas , use complete or nearly full tiles |
| 17 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
| 18 | 3.13 The best way to form a view on the current level of damages for pain and suffering simpliciter is to study recent awards for minor injuries , where there has been a complete or almost complete recovery . |
| 19 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 20 | The other three ( Vela , the Crab and PSR1509–58 ) are all associated with supernova remnants ( SNRs ) , whereas very few — perhaps four — of the remaining 500 or so galactic radio pulsars have convincing associations with SNRs . |
| 21 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 22 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 24 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 25 | 120 OR SO PLANT-BASED DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR WORLD-WIDE USE COME FROM JUST 95 SPECIES — MANY KNOWN FOR CENTURIES |
| 26 | Is reading the romance a politically progressive or politically reactionary move ? |
| 27 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 28 | Even the island of nuclear stability , that metallic gleam in the physicists ' eye which promises stable or reasonably long-lived elements around atomic number 114 , can only add a few more to the current tally . |
| 29 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 30 | But are there dangers that it could also have undesirable or even disastrous consequences both to living organisms and to the environment ? |