Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that few managers read on , or that most mainstream management academics see business ethics as a ‘ soft ’ subject . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like the look of that bull , ’ said Lydia , ‘ or that simply colossal pig . |
| 3 | Unfortunately there are many secondary schools , especially in the denominational sector , where this strictly educational approach is not followed . |
| 4 | But how could she ever predict anything where this totally unpredictable man was concerned ? |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it seems highly probable that the persisting biochemical abnormalities ( phenylalanine excess or some closely related change ) at least make a substantial contribution to the neurological impairment . |
| 6 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 7 | Every so often , and it 's not often enough , we at Guitarist Mansions get a review guitar through the post which is well-built , reasonably priced , nicely styled and which does what it says it does , with no design gimmickry , cheap glitter or high-falutin' bumph claiming it to be a ‘ sound revolution ’ , or some equally laughable piece of flannel . |
| 8 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 9 | It may be clipped classical , random cottage , modern high-tech , or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium , that no one has ever imagined before , but which exists in your head and wants to get out . |
| 10 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 11 | However , mail-shots are gaining in popularity and 53 percent now consider them as either their first or second most effective marketing technique . |
| 12 | Leathery or retarded highly elastic state . |
| 13 | In cross-section ( Fig. 3 ) , the wound front generally has a rounded or only slightly angular profile , rather than the flattened cellular protrusions one might expect at a leading edge that was actively crawling forwards over the exposed mesenchyme . |
| 14 | At the same time Christians are committed to caring and compassionate action to help those who are homosexual , and all who suffer from AIDS or any sexually transmitted disease . |
| 15 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 16 | 9.12 Licences etc under hand Whilst the Landlord is a limited company or other corporation all licences consents approvals and notices required to be given by the Landlord shall be sufficiently given if given under the hand of a director the secretary or other duly authorised officer of the Landlord [ or the Surveyor on behalf of the Landlord ] Without this provision , the effectiveness of licences and consents granted by the landlord during the term and not under seal could be in doubt . |
| 17 | Specifically the hypertext system that we were using , Guide , offers a ‘ safe ’ mode whereby the reader is alerted before any program ( or other potentially dangerous operation ) begins . |
| 18 | ‘ Overt violence or other potentially injurious coercion is not to be used before noninjurious coercion has been exhausted ’ Bernard Berelson ( ex-President of the Population Council ) and Jonathan Lieberson |
| 19 | ’ Some studies have made unfavourable comparisons between the going concern qualification 's predictive ability and failure prediction models based on financial ratios or other publicly available information . |
| 20 | In such a close encounter it surely could never have happened to the local hero in Italy , San Juan or other more volatile boxing outposts . |
| 21 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 22 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 23 | And it 's quite clear that that very high death toll from flu last winter was not because the vaccine was n't working , but because the vaccine was n't getting into the people who needed it . |
| 24 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 25 | I take it that some very primitive form of life arose spontaneously on earth from chance combinations of atoms . |
| 26 | Pointing out that the grant settlement was based on wage awards from zero to 1.5 per cent , Mr Gray added : ‘ Even assuming that such a level of wage settlement can be negotiated , there is no doubt that some very difficult service and job-loss decisions will require to be taken in the next few weeks . |
| 27 | The company may already have a mainframe computer with a data processing department and the manager might suggest that some potentially suitable software packages be evaluated and that obtaining a ready-made package should be considerably less expensive than writing one from scratch . |
| 28 | That is why the amendment is a far , far better thing than this rather grubby amendment we have before us . |
| 29 | But clearly designing involves more than this rather technical definition : we are talking about the ability to shape and unite , to bring together complexes of factors . |
| 30 | In practice , any single investigation will have much stricter data requirements than this rather general list . |