Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 2 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 3 | Political strategies now usually incorporate media strategies as well ; indeed , the two are no longer separate . |
| 4 | In other words , the greatest houses no longer set the pattern for the nation . |
| 5 | The following companies also make a substantial contribution to the IFSCC in supporting members of the Praesidium , and our grateful thanks therefore also go to : |
| 6 | Undaunted , the 1918 Education Act made provision for local authorities to begin to open such schools for all 14–16 year-olds not otherwise engaged in full-time secondary education . |
| 7 | In relations between the German states , in which legalistic considerations so often bulked large , Latin held its ground longer than in Europe generally . |
| 8 | The electricity between them was becoming unbearable , their light-hearted words so obviously hiding something deeper . |
| 9 | The world has changed of course : European currencies no longer fluctuate against each other and Russia and South Africa — two great producing areas — have found a political stability of sorts . |
| 10 | Local junior schools usually willingly accept invitations to run a stall at infant school events and secondary schools are usually eager to provide very professional looking displays at primary school parents ' meetings . |
| 11 | The bulk of the Goldeneye wintering in Sussex do so in Chichester Harbour , where recent counts have shown a fairly consistent winter peak of about 100 birds ; on 16 January 1971 225 were counted , and on 1 January 1974 , 234 , the largest concentrations so far recorded . |
| 12 | It is obvious that good economic indicators no more ensure good economic management than accurate instruments on the dashboard of a car ensure safe driving . |
| 13 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 14 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 15 | In particular , this repulsion means that orbitals in different sub-shells no longer have the same energy . |
| 16 | What a joy experiencing so many movements possible through Medau using the wide variety of apparatus including tambours , sticks , ropes , etc — some forms not yet used in our Welsh Classes , and sharing our love of movement with others of different nationalities . |
| 17 | A key issue which must be addressed in this debate is not what most favours the sons and daughters of those families already committed to higher education , important though this is , but rather which funding system will most likely encourage first-generation entrants to higher education from social groups not hitherto persuaded to participate , because it is only from these groups that the necessary growth of an education and trained population can actually come . |
| 18 | The letter says that the key issue is which funding system will most likely encourage first-generation entrants to higher education from social groups not hitherto persuaded to participate . |
| 19 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 20 | Not only are foreign programmes often better made , but they also have the allure , real or imagined , of being sophisticated or trendy . |
| 21 | The Netherlands ( one of the richest countries in the world ) is twice as densely populated as India ( one of the poorest ) and the UK is two and a half times as densely populated as China . |
| 22 | I 'll give you a few minutes again just to consider these questions . |
| 23 | And a song thrush on a beech with long slender brown buds still tight closed : ‘ Repetitive : repeated simple phrases , repeated single notes , bold and obtrusive . ‘ |
| 24 | As a result , many ornamental objects once again survived , if only to become the focus for the activities of Puritan iconoclasts during the civil war . |
| 25 | However , the initial response was extremely low-key , with some states not even mentioning the invasion and not one of them directly criticizing Iraq . |
| 26 | However , some contracts not currently recognised do give rise to firm commitments — for example , both operating and finance leases commonly do so , and under the principles in the chapter , the assets and liabilities stemming from both should be recognised . |
| 27 | You may feel depressed when your work is returned to you , feel a failure , but magazine editors reject work for lots of different reasons not all connected with the quality of the work . |
| 28 | In this context the relationship of the persuader to the patient — for example , spouse , parents or religious adviser — will be important , because some relationships more readily lend themselves to overbearing the patient 's independent will than do others . |
| 29 | Some halls not only have no ‘ personality ’ , but no potential for creating any . |
| 30 | Few organizations however formally acknowledge it , or deliberately try to develop the coaching role . |