Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 2 | We were raging lions then and England 's name was feared from the northern seas to the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some historians have criticised Gladstone 's earlier period of office for reforming institutions rather than society . |
| 5 | Under the old paradigm , companies are organized into a series of hierarchical tiers so that supervisors at each level can make sure that subordinates act according to plan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar . |
| 8 | And the visitors took the lead eight minutes later when Durie surged through the home cover to beat Stejskal with an angled shot . |
| 9 | The court heard that Henry was arrested eight months later when police stopped a car he was in at Ballyduff Road , Newtownabbey . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was still , however , dynastic and political considerations rather than religion which began drawing Picts and Scots into a closer relationship . |
| 13 | That discord between indigenous and Western cultures would prove unremitting was suggested by the arguments of domestic political protagonists even before Japan was forced to reopen contacts with the West in the 1850s . |
| 14 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Portsmouth , which is connected to the continent by the finest ferry services in the country , there is a growing realisation that success at Maastricht is crucial to trade and investment , on which jobs depend , and that the main prize to be achieved is an agreement which recognises the importance of closer co-operation between European nations rather than moves towards inevitable integration ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This machine used valves rather than transistors or microchips and required input in the form of punched cards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They extended their lead 12 minutes later when McPherson 's back pass let in Thornley , who rode Glass 's crude challenge before slipping the ball to Beckham , who scored with a spectacular shot from 20 yards . |
| 19 | 30 times slower than Mansell . |
| 20 | In many ways this array of interest groups is not peculiar to Japan , and the usual debate exists about whether some groups rather than others have more access or influence . |
| 21 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |
| 22 | And the Monster was pinching Ma 's bosoms with its hideous clawed fingers so that blood squirted out . |
| 23 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 24 | ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved . |
| 25 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 26 | Peas will take a few minutes longer than beans to soften . |
| 27 | Cows and calves inside were led to safety , and it was some hours later that firemen discovered a body in the debris . |
| 28 | Only a few years after claiming that there were no known substitutes , the companies are discovering a wide range of alternatives — including soap and water — which are not only cheaper but in some cases better than CFCs . |
| 29 | Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement . |
| 30 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |