Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of this book , however , the wealth and variety of different designs on Greek and Roman coins give the greatest opportunities and indeed difficulties of interpretation . |
| 2 | Metaphors , descriptive words and even nouns can lead to vagueness and ambiguity for the reader . |
| 3 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 4 | At another they study how cell functions are integrated in tissues , organs or complete animals and how information , vital for co-ordination , is sent from one cell or group of cells to another by chemical and electrical signals . |
| 5 | ( Cauchy , in 1815 , had defined multiplication of permutations , whilst Gauss , in 1801 , had combined pairs of binary quadratic forms and also integers " mod p " . ) |
| 6 | Why should sandwich courses in engineering exist in some institutions and not others ? |
| 7 | Ufton went in for England 's third try in 49 minutes and then flanker Robert Leach touched down from a five-metre scrummage , Stimpson converting . |
| 8 | Government recognition of some groups and not others for consultations , negotiations and arbitration , distinguishes corporatism from pluralism ( Harrison 1980 , pp. 73–4 ) . |
| 9 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 10 | For some species of spider will blatantly mimic the ‘ come-hither ’ sound signals and even sex pheromones of female moths , luring lusting males to a dinner party they had not expected . |
| 11 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
| 12 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 13 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 14 | Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years . |
| 15 | ‘ Strange how we have taken to some French words and not others , is n't it ? ’ remarked Henry diplomatically as the parlourmaid came into the room with a pile of dinner plates and the vegetable dishes . |
| 16 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
| 17 | Sexual offences and particularly rape may fall into this category . |
| 18 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 19 | We accept that shops or factories be forbidden in some zones and not others and that parking be prohibited on alternate sides of the same street on alternate days . |
| 20 | Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time . |
| 21 | She read some verses and not others , understood some lines and not others , and stopped at every mention of angels or children or weeping or suffering . |
| 22 | In 1991 , 62% of management buyouts recorded in continental Europe consisted of divestments from domestic or foreign companies and only 33% from private or family companies . |
| 23 | Rachel and David joined in the quest for the green cases that housed the shiny brown conkers and soon pockets and paper bags were bulging as the collection grew , while the sound of spontaneous laughter hung in the still air . |
| 24 | As soon as he began to march south , German mercenaries and then men from the non-Norman states came to offer their services . |
| 25 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 26 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 27 | This is because when there is an actionable nuisance the law provides a legal remedy by way of injunction or damages and this it is not prepared to do in respect of every odour found to be annoying or objectionable ; neither would it be practicable especially since odours are notoriously subjective in nature affecting some individuals and not others and causing a variety of symptoms . |
| 28 | Piece by piece , a picture emerged of wrong-doing in high places and eventually congress and law enforcement agencies were obliged to take action . |
| 29 | Mosaic floors , stencilled walls , ornamental cast-iron balustrades and even examples of original carpets have been photographed . |
| 30 | There were some granulomatous area on the lower edges of the lungs , possibly caused by migrating worms , but these seemed to be old lesions and not evidence of a newly acquired disease . |