Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This time delay can have safety and/or economic consequences hence the need to accelerate the experts ' diagnosis and decision processes .
2 In the event of injury or serious illness abroad a 24 hour service is available for immediate help .
3 Existing waste disposal operations will have to be put out to private or arms-length companies so the local authority 's policing role can not be mixed with its disposal role .
4 He goes to a day centre three days a week but it would help if he could have a two- or three-week holiday somewhere every now and again .
5 They are angry that British Steel formerly a public corporation is keeping the £300m for its own use .
6 These days BEM systems cost little or no more than conventional controllers so the Exeter Arms ' payback period of two-and-a-half years would be much shorter today .
7 Fears that disabled drivers particularly the severely disabled will find it impossible to shop in the town were raised .
8 They found a pocket of spring/summer oscillation and camped overnight there , conscious that just yards away a biting winter was flaring and dying , the trees sprouting , then blackening again , as if the buds were tiny creatures , grasping and snatching at the light , then quickly tugging back into their wood-bark holes .
9 Push and stretch that upper arm just a little further and hold for 1 second .
10 If economic reform was the ‘ key to all our problems ’ at the outset of Gorbachev 's administration and political reform increasingly the means by which it was to be accomplished , the ultimate objective remained the achievement of a form of socialism which advanced decisively on those that had preceded it .
11 And bloody things here the whole time , these cockles were everywhere they were we liked them , the boys did , aye .
12 The eugenists also argued , on the assumption that the working classes were made up of less intelligent and less healthy stock , that if their birth rate remained higher than that of the middle and professional classes then the physical and intellectual standards of the British population must decline .
13 Instead unemployment in January was the highest for ten years and economic recovery still a long way off .
14 Since then the methodology has been greatly extended to reflect new developments in linguistic theory , new approaches in language teaching methodology and , most importantly , to respond to new pressures in the social and economic climate particularly the growth of racism in Britain .
15 I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea .
16 Farmers , whether on a large or small scale , faced new demands on their managerial abilities and technical skills almost every day — decisions and actions they usually had to make and take on their own .
17 Similarly , the economic base is fragile and overdependent on specific local and possibly transient opportunities e.g. military bases , industrial and commercial initiatives e.g. the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish , and some Highlands and Islands Development Board sponsored enterprises e.g. fish processing factories .
18 And — an important factor this , in view of the way that we found some commercial lenders now tend to make repetitive and cumulative borrowing almost an end in itself , rather than simply the means of funding one desired purchase — the union has no interest in persuading its members to borrow .
19 A couple of hours and aching arms later the copper and brass was gleaming and sitting back to bask in satisfaction a voice soon broke the momentary pleasure .
20 There is no easy way back up out of the spiral because if a government attempts to buy back public support in order to alleviate the " political " problem of governability then this not only overtaxes the economy but stimulates inflation so further exacerbating the " economic " problem and making sustained and balanced growth all the more difficult .
21 The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ .
22 In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … "
23 Which , come to think of it , is probably just as well , judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering , rude , opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloodstream outnumber their neurons , or whatever .
24 And so we 've , now , you know , in these times when you get tied up in red tape and bureaucratic mess everywhere the speed at which has achieved this is admirable and I do really thank you for that .
25 If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade .
26 ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’
27 I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was .
28 ‘ The judges felt that in this wild and exposed situation only a very tough and challenging building both in design and construction would be appropriate . ’
29 There is an elegant lounge and restaurant , a bar , and live music twice a week .
30 And I 'll love you and Matthew and Green Gables more every day of my life . ’
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