Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many large series of critically ill patients sepsis has been found to be a major determinant of mortality . |
| 2 | We were quite long-haired — sort of early Rolling Stones type . |
| 3 | A wide range of more specialised honours course are offered , ranging in period from the medieval to the very recent past and geographically from Britain to Eastern Europe , Latin America , India , Russia and the former Soviet States , and the USA . |
| 4 | Um generally speaking you know if you you might want to use sort of fairly y'know sort of fairly brief extracts y'know sort of five or ten minutes or something like that maybe and get people to y'know respond to it and so on . |
| 5 | There is a vast range of mathematically calculable improbabilities way outside the range of the spotlight . |
| 6 | After a period of basic training and the usual round of very menial assignments characteristic of the Pioneers , he became Company Clerk at Liverpool , where he endured the friendship of a kindly , bibulous sergeant-major and the enmity of an overbearing , loud major . |
| 7 | With most modern softners regeneration is carried out automatically , being initiated by one of two main methods . |
| 8 | Having acknowledged that , Cabinet does meet less frequently , it discusses fewer formal papers , it is presented with more virtual faits accomplis at the last moment , and she does prefer to work in ad hoc groups — many of the most important ones remaining outside the Cabinet-committee structure . |
| 9 | CELEBRATIONS GO ON WITH VERY FINE EGGARS CONCERT |
| 10 | Whereas in hierarchically structured societies consumption of the most sought after goods was restricted to a relatively small class , in more democratic ones the mass of the population , no longer confined to the vicarious enjoyment of precious substances , was free to engage in their active consumption , unimpeded by sumptuary regulation , social disapproval or economic disability . |
| 11 | The lack of men in black means top young players are involved in highly competitive games week in week out , without the protection of an official . |
| 12 | In more recent times zinc and lead have been added and the alloy used for bearings and steam fittings . |
| 13 | In more recent years provision by the associations of advisory services in labour matters , dispute settlement procedures and legislative issues — as well as pressure-group activities — have all become general , reflecting the increasing complexity of industrial relations and the enlarged role of government . |
| 14 | In more technical terms cellulite is a modified form of fat tissue to be found just below the surface of the skin . |
| 15 | In more severe cases dyspnoea and tenacious nasal discharge are also present . |
| 16 | Even in more authoritarian states public opinion could be a real force . |
| 17 | Their presence in totally inadequate police accommodation is authorised by the Prisons ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1980 , a statute passed as an emergency measure to cope with an industrial dispute with prison officers and used almost continuously ever since . |
| 18 | In purely financial terms option ( i ) above is preferable to Calculators Plc by [ £272,219.20 - £272,000 ] £219.20 . |
| 19 | In craft and technician level courses , theory is seen merely as an adjunct of practice , while in purely academic courses practice , if it is a point of reference at all , is seen simply as a spin-off or by-product of theory . |
| 20 | In very early times water and marshland covered much of the area . |
| 21 | I 've tried to relate the sectors to both the principal transport corridors and also in very broad terms district boundaries . |
| 22 | You are apt to think of your pain in very big letters PAIN rather than thinking of something else . |
| 23 | RIGHT On very dry sites water can be used to bring out different soil colours . |
| 24 | Before the Finance Act 1989 , switches within offshore umbrella funds did not count as realisations for either capital gains tax or income tax purposes , but they are now regarded as disposals and so chargeable to CGT and income tax . |