Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Scottish National Party deputy leader , Allan Macartney , said that Highlands and Islands needs had been accentuated by recent job losses , and forecast : ‘ The UK will never press our case for regional funding as effectively as we could .
2 While chromatic notes more often than not make his harmony directional , they are never used to excess and always relate to the words .
3 This year they estimate the whole legal aid bill will be around £100 million and I say : ‘ Well done ’ on spending that money so efficiently and economically in order to let people have justice . ’
4 What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time .
5 Erm do you believe if , if we erm oh I think we 've already covered that bit right so if I put erm come up with a erm a recommendation that would provide erm an income for your wife in the event of your death erm is there any reason why we ca n't look at this ?
6 Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ .
7 Immediately an expected date of discharge from hospital is known , inform the Department of Health and Social Security so that any pensions , benefits and allowances to which your parent is entitled may be restored to the normal level as soon as possible .
8 I believe in low taxes not just because they ignite enterprise — the spark of economic growth — but because they put power and choice where it belongs : in your hands .
9 Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March .
10 Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful .
11 They tried the resulting complaints as the King 's Bench would have done , but they dealt with private suits as well as with crime .
12 Social workers really do need to take a stand alongside the old person involved listening and respecting the expressed wishes as far as possible .
13 This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been .
14 ‘ Sir Alexander Gibson , a seasoned conductor of the work , paces this ‘ Butterfly ’ with complete feeling , rising to its emotional peaks as surely as he responds to its moments of delicacy ’ .
15 Their increasing withdrawal from the mainstream of European politics was a significant aspect of one of the most important changes of the nineteenth century — the clear emergence of a group of great powers in whose hands alone the political future of the continent was recognised to lie , and the relegation of all the other European states more clearly than in the past to varying degrees of political unimportance .
16 I ask my hon. Friend , please , to give us that opportunity as soon as possible .
17 The basic theme , topic , or specific subject-matter will be selected , and examined for its facets , concepts and possible sub-units as well as for the skills that are necessary for its full comprehension and others that can be usefully practised within its general ambit .
18 As far emerging technologies go , Rothstein says although the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment may well become part of a common distributed infrastructure , he claims it is still on a very low level as far as developers are concerned .
19 and it was in this field that the pluralists most persistently attempted to combine empirical methods with assumptions which , if they were not entirely Madisonian , at least fitted prevailing norms rather better than the emerging stark elitism .
20 Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously .
21 The final report — almost eight times as long as the interim — was able to cover the same ground in more detail and also to extend the coverage to a wide range of ethnic minority groups .
22 After all , we will be trying to sell each unit fifty times over rather than just once , as with the normal holiday home .
23 Just try saying that sentence out loud and see how pompous and unnatural it sounds .
24 Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned .
25 Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere .
26 They would unite with the workers over their struggle for economic improvements only so that ‘ by smuggling in the Marxian doctrine , [ they could ] transform it into the ideological struggle of classes . ’
27 Today 's 940 Turbo fits that description as comfortably as the old 740 Turbo did .
28 His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other …
29 The Kimmeridgian stage of the Upper Jurassic is here developed to an exceptional thickness in a narrow strip along more than 10 miles of coast .
30 It meets the Gramm-Rudman target , brings that deficit down further and balances the budget by 1993 — with no new taxes .
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