Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |
| 2 | These may be large- or small-scale databases designed with very specific educational aims , to cater for a particular topic or part of a course , or for more general use in the school library . |
| 3 | Another example is the breeding of new varieties specifically for certain environmental conditions , eg , for better performance under dry land farming conditions , for quicker growth in northern areas where the growing season is limited or for more efficient photosynthesis . |
| 4 | At least 88 per cent of sewage from coastal towns is discharged into the sea raw or after only basic screening to sift out solids . |
| 5 | In the discussion groups , some men seemed proud that they were n't romantic , viewing it as boring and effeminate , or of strictly short-term value . |
| 6 | The Crown applied to the Outer House of the Court of Session to quash the ruling , contending that the evidence it had tried to present had to be deemed relevant , even if not determinative or of very great weight . |
| 7 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 8 | Likewise , further groupings such as percentage of coarse sand or of very fine sand may also be calculated . |
| 9 | Although these allegations , if made good , clearly amount to wrongdoing on the part of the third defendant in relation to a number of individual matters , they do not convey to my mind a particularly comprehensible account of a conspiracy or of systematically fraudulent conduct . |
| 10 | There are also costs of compliance , for example , the costs of delays or of more expensive design or construction . |
| 11 | This is usually because it is felt that they can not cope with anything at a higher level or with more demanding work — they ‘ can not concentrate ’ , ‘ can not transfer knowledge from one situation to another ’ , ‘ can not remember from one day to the next ’ , ‘ can not cope with sequential tasks ’ , ‘ get confused by experiencing more than one way of doing something ’ , and most definitely ‘ can not do fractions ’ . |
| 12 | In the case of gastrointestinal parasites , development may take place entirely in the gut lumen or with only limited movement into the mucosa . |
| 13 | In particular two small groups of vigilantes wearing diversely blazoned combat fatigues seemed to be sizing up Jaq 's trio , either with a view to offering their services or with less savoury intent . |
| 14 | He approached his first term at Lincoln College ‘ fairly well & in exceedingly good temper … |
| 15 | This is so where the structure and organisation of social groups and collectivities is fairly precisely defined by some overall set of rules , as , for example , in the armed services , or in other bureaucratic organisations like local government departments , the Civil Service , ICI , or in similarly organised work groups ( for instance in the coal or motor industries ) . |
| 16 | Miss Potts I was awfully sorry about that spider affair the other day , she began , of course Alicia and Daryl were in the classroom before hand , I 'm sure they know something about it , I heard Alicia say , Miss Potts looked up , are you trying to sneak she said , or in more polite language to tell tales , because if so , do n't try it on me . |
| 17 | The production of hymn books , supplements and small collections is so prolific that it is almost impossible to keep abreast of all that is in circulation , whether in traditional or in more popular vein . |
| 18 | ( The questions of who is nearer death or in more rigorous therapy become the subjects of virulent debate ) . |
| 19 | Nordic composers around the turn of the century were not immune from quasi-medieval minstrelsy , or from routinely voluptuous piano arpeggios like Mendelssohn 's . |
| 20 | The readership to be considered was the actual or at least predictable reading public rather than the precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl into whose hands it might perchance fall — unless it were in fact aimed at or distributed to fourteen-year-old schoolgirls , by whose vulnerability to corruption it should then be judged . |
| 21 | Planning , or at least mental preparation , is needed for this transition , whether we intend to have an active retirement , or just ‘ sit and do nothing ’ . |
| 22 | In 1551 , Bishop Scory leased the Manor and its lands to Robert Deane , for 99 years when they passed at his death to his daughter Sylvestre , then ultimately to the family of Dalison , who who maintained their interest in them until the present century , or at least certain land . |
| 23 | returning school-age pupils to full-time or at least part-time education and |
| 24 | the provision of mentoring or at least regular briefing meetings . |
| 25 | This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties . |
| 26 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 27 | In the case of wave and tidal power , large units , linked to the grid , seem inevitable ; but the possibility of smaller units has also been discussed offering more scope for local or at least regional management . |
| 28 | Member States must be assumed to have actual or at least constructive knowledge of an organisation 's actions , so that they can not claim ignorance of them . |
| 29 | Thus these qualities have a kind of objectivity , or at least inter-subjective validity . |
| 30 | Indeed , the possible conjunction of the northern Anglian princes and Domnall Brecc in the same area could imply that an alliance between Angles and Scots or at least concerted action between them was the key to Anglian success in north Britain in the reign of Oswald . |