Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It decided that only fundamental , structural changes to the organization and management of services would bring about the environment necessary for locally integrated community care to flourish .
2 The implications for less partial equilibrium behaviour are less clear .
3 Whereas before it was used for less damaging crosscountry skiing and walkers .
4 Stewart was sent off 18 minutes from the end of a niggly clash for foolishly slapping Apollon keeper Michalis Christophi across the head as he picked himself up from an innocent penalty-area collision .
5 The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations .
6 Much the same can be said about constitutionally significant statute law , judicial decisions , and works of authority in the United States .
7 This arrangement unfortunately presents a potential for extremely rapid fire growth and provides large surface areas of fuel high above ground level with , in some cases , none other than fixed , pre-positioned means by which a fire fighting strike is possible .
8 The Sherpa Underblanket is made by a unique process known as Long Tufted Slither Knitting .
9 Schemes for environmentally friendly energy production were the main losers in the budget , receiving less funding than this year .
10 BUBBLY dance stars En Vogue prepare to battle it out with superstar Madonna for Best Female Video award .
11 The meat producer McKechnie Jess took the prize for best small manufacturing company .
12 German cinema has had a low profile of late , with the most feted film being ‘ The Nasty Girl ’ by Michael Verhoeven which took the Silver Lion at last year 's Berlin Film Festival , and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film .
13 RAILWAY WORLD PRIZE for best incomplete Volunteer Sector project showing the most promise : .
14 Part of an answer to these may be found in the fact that a personal visit ( by the researchers ) to the areas where the black arrestees lived revealed that these were pockets of very poor houses in large wards of predominantly good class housing .
15 Guest passes come in the form of rather fetching hospital wrist bands .
16 A period of rather dull winter training in Cyrenaica ensued , but by the spring his battery , now detached from the rest of the regiment ( which was in the rear , and which was later withdrawn to Egypt ) , was again in action .
17 Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities .
18 It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results .
19 The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain .
20 That is one reason why Microsoft reckons Windows NT can clean up : on the screen , despite 4m lines of wholly new computer code , NT will appear just like friendly old pre-NT Windows .
21 In the UDC proposals land is seen as the basis of a kind of wholly autonomous service sector .
22 The party has been the spearhead of what is essentially a protest movement against more than 40 years of mostly uninterrupted Congress domination of Indian politics .
23 Sun machines and clones running Newsprint can now print off of widely used HP LaserJet and Canon printers complements of the LaserPrint 4100 SCSI interface card from San Jose , California-based Rastron Corporation : it also reportedly enhances output from the standard 300 x 300 dpi to 600 x 300 dpi .
24 The university Senate announced that the press 's primary objective should be ‘ the publication of commercially unremunerative research work ’ , a remit which its founding secretary , Archie Turnbull , jokingly paraphrased as ‘ losing money intelligently ’ .
25 Like the military in other countries , it was of political importance because of extremely heavy defence expenditure and also because , in the last resort , the survival of the regime depended on its loyalty , for it had control of the nation 's weaponry .
26 In parallel with this , Ann has overseen the establishment of entirely new team budgeting processes , and Tracy has made sure that staff affected by chance have appropriate space and office facilities to do their jobs .
27 To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top .
28 First questio , the question , and I 'd like to comment as well is , erm , what , are there plans for the future of greatly expanding Environment Department , er , and why is it er , and why is it not being put through policy , first .
29 Elite theorists for a long time countered pluralist optimism about the interest group process by citing case studies of less savoury interest group campaigns , such as the setting up of a commercial TV channel in Britain or industrial regulation in the USA ( Prewitt and Stone , 1973 ) .
30 Whether such complex formal procedures could be incorporated into a graduated test scheme seems doubtful ; the few existing schemes in Britain make use of less formal teacher judgement , within guidelines from the central development team , or laid down criterion scores in tests .
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