Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’ |
| 2 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 3 | I would like to suggest that an answer to this question should address broader concerns than simply a desire to make a representation of appearance . |
| 4 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 5 | 5. such work will also help pupils approach the diversity of religious beliefs in an open and non-dogmatic way without succumbing to the relativism which tends to regard different beliefs as just a matter of opinion . |
| 6 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 7 | Many national and several international meetings were organised on the subject of ‘ Women and the Media ’ , raising such questions as how the mass media treats issues of concern to women , and women 's participation in various capacities in the production of mainstream media . |
| 8 | Furthermore , successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control . |
| 9 | CCETSW has outdone SSDs in attracting more resources and has printed more forgettable publications than even the VAT office . |
| 10 | The Labour councils sought to use low fares as both a part of their overall planning policies and a means of redistributing income in favour of lower income groups . |
| 11 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 12 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 13 | Some are veritable campuses where students can learn about logarithms as well as lobs , fine arts as well a s fitness training . |
| 14 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 15 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 16 | He does , however , urge that disclosure orders ought not to be made save in the most exceptional circumstances lest otherwise the public interest underlying the immunity be insidiously destroyed . |
| 17 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 18 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 19 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 20 | There are fewer contexts where only the bare infinitive seems appropriate . |
| 21 | However , it would be wrong to dismiss the initiative on these grounds as primarily a money-saving device . |
| 22 | But beyond that , Halifax emerges from these friendly pages as just the cold , compromising nobleman of legend . |
| 23 | They will make fewer awkward demands than either the Catalans or the Basques . |
| 24 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 25 | That was twice as many workers as even the average Soviet factory employed and ten times as many as its West German equivalent . |
| 26 | By the beginning of 1968 Britain was ceasing to be regarded by many Americans as either a powerful or a special ally . |
| 27 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 28 | It is important to distinguish such erosional features from true tectonic scarps since only the latter indicate recent or current fault activity . |
| 29 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 30 | Even those who saw the extension of Moscow 's control over her eastern European neighbours as primarily a response to American expansion objected to the oppressive form of Soviet rule . |