Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short-term monitoring rather than forecasting is still the main emphasis . |
| 2 | At bottom , this critique revolves around the feeling that many groups of professionals ( in our case teachers ) are organised around professional skills rather than client needs . |
| 3 | Some historians have criticised Gladstone 's earlier period of office for reforming institutions rather than society . |
| 4 | Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates . |
| 5 | The important question , however , is why high capital intensity is associated with lower ROI even when market share is high . |
| 6 | It focusses on small-scale interaction rather than society as a whole . |
| 7 | This seems an odd way of going about things , but the advising panels do carry a professional adviser so that talent is not merely being judged by local civil servants . |
| 8 | NCP leases the car park above Presto in East Street , Darlington , from the local authority which recommended the upper deck be closed eight months ago after crash barriers were discovered to be unsafe . |
| 9 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
| 10 | It was still , however , dynastic and political considerations rather than religion which began drawing Picts and Scots into a closer relationship . |
| 11 | By allowing unmediated access to a character 's mind the narrator constructs a close bond between reader and character based upon shared information and perspective , while at other times witholding the reader from that mind so that narrator and reader stand together in a position of judgemental distance . |
| 12 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 13 | Mr Cruickshank fulfils that criterion admirably and will , I am sure , do a very good job . ’ |
| 14 | Because the stack is such a common programming device for retaining intermediate results in the right order ( for arithmetic calculation , syntactic analysis , subroutine and interrupt entry and return , etc. ) , many modern computers provide facilities for manipulating a stack , even though they are basically one-address computers rather than zero-address like the KDF9 and Burroughs computers . |
| 15 | This continues iteratively over the possible candidates so that letter strings approach the length of the input string , illegal possibilities are ruled out and likelihoods re-computed to produce ordered resultant candidate words . |
| 16 | This afternoon past and present came together . |
| 17 | And the Monster was pinching Ma 's bosoms with its hideous clawed fingers so that blood squirted out . |
| 18 | ‘ The qualities required in the Chairman and members were tact and sound judgement rather than energy and administrative ability , ’ he told the Cabinet . |
| 19 | If person A is given an overdraft and then draws a cheque on the account and pays it to person B , person B's bank account has been credited and he or she can draw this money even though person A never deposited the money in the first place . |
| 20 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |
| 21 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 22 | Mr. Hearn shows how even the very beasts whom we despise as unreasoning and unremembering are filled with an inarticulate sense of this dark backward and abysm of time … |
| 23 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 24 | The whole isolation chamber is housed inside an outer building and is mounted on rubber blocks so that vibration from traffic etc. does not reach the volunteers . |
| 25 | Many of them therefore tended to favour the single-party governments produced by two-party-dominated systems of the American or British type rather than coalition governments , however accurately the latter might reflect the " pluralistic and diverse " character of society . |
| 26 | Besides , the temperature would continue to rise over the next few decades even if greenhouse gases stayed as they are , simply because the world is so slow to warm up , and has not yet responded to what is there already . |
| 27 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 28 | Use public transport more or walk or cycle whenever possible . |
| 29 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 30 | We re-emphasise this limitation now because CD-ROM is the evolutionary starting point for CD multimedia systems and its ‘ speed of light ’ underlies the greatest single technological challenge in multimedia development . |