Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coal will be the primary source of electricity generation within the region though in Malaysia and Thailand gas will be significantly used for electricity generation since this represents a more cost effective option than importing coal and exporting LNG . |
| 2 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 3 | But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all . |
| 4 | From these data , it is possible to suggest a fivefold classification of the fields . |
| 5 | During the year 1976 the highest level of enthusiasm for family planning endured , more than 8 million sterilisations were reported , more than three times the number in the preceding year … these meant a nearly 50% increase in the proportion of Indian couples estimated to be protected by modern contraception achieved within a matter of months . |
| 6 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 7 | Fiona , 34 , is leaving ITN 's News At Ten to present a 6am breakfast TV show with Michael from January . |
| 8 | 10:17 gives a slightly difference order for the middle section — Gershonites and Merarites carrying the tabernacle , then Reuben , Simeon and Gad , followed by the Kohathites with the sanctuary . |
| 9 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 10 | Both have a 7.45pm kick-off and will be played to a finish . |