Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 2 | Short-term monitoring rather than forecasting is still the main emphasis . |
| 3 | LOW TAR Less than 10mg |
| 4 | The important question , however , is why high capital intensity is associated with lower ROI even when market share is high . |
| 5 | It focusses on small-scale interaction rather than society as a whole . |
| 6 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 7 | In contrast to the increasing emphasis in child welfare on parental responsibility rather than rights , the Conservatives ' policy since 1980 of making the education system far more responsive to parental demands has involved an extension of parental rights . |
| 8 | Third , since 1984 , unions in RENFE have won the right to negotiate over the level of minimum service , and management has not normally run services in excess of that level even if resources were available . |
| 9 | It is essential , for instance , that environmental standards for industry are set at a European level so that companies do not compete by seeking out those locations with inadequate environmental protection . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The potential for Britain lies in hot , dry rock rather than aquifers , and areas suitable for energy production would be south-west England , the Lake District , north east England and the Scottish Highlands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They do not use actual figures specific to treatment of that condition alone but figures derived from data from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys to which a correction based on figures from the Yorkshire region has been applied . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Cruickshank fulfils that criterion admirably and will , I am sure , do a very good job . ’ |
| 16 | Any system that costs the British taxpayer more than £2.5 billion , only half of which reaches farmers , is an absurdity and must be abolished . |
| 17 | This afternoon past and present came together . |
| 18 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 19 | ‘ The qualities required in the Chairman and members were tact and sound judgement rather than energy and administrative ability , ’ he told the Cabinet . |
| 20 | Then they can actually go to the D S S office and say that they need some money urgently and D S S may make a payment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And he added : ‘ I 've never had a broken toe before but Ian Botham will tell me I 'm a big softie if I 'm not playing by the middle of next month . |
| 23 | Come testing time , though , it was a different story altogether as Farr-Jones 's side put on an awesome second-half display in the rain and mud at Newlands . |
| 24 | We have several capital projects which will take us into new and exciting areas and if we ride out this recession better than others we will have the opportunity to make further acquisitions to expand our core activities . |
| 25 | According to the Health and Safety Executive it costs British Industry more than £2 billion a year in absenteeism . |
| 26 | Those whom he taught within St Victor provoked the criticism of a younger fellow-canon , Richard , that they were ‘ judaizing ’ — that is , understanding the Old Testament primarily as Jews rather than as Christians . |
| 27 | For the pacifist mainstream , however , the threatened industrial explosion fed nightmares of social collapse rather than dreams of international peace . |
| 28 | But this , I 'm assured by Brandoni Custom , is due to the inconsistency of the old springs , and they 're currently researching an improved spring so that guitars can be equipped with original units when required . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | THE film came about after a 14-year gap simply because Peter and Gerald were asked — by former Monty Python producer John Goldstone . |