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

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1 If it is a possible view that section 8 is intended to put a 16- or 17-year-old in exactly the same position as an adult and there is thus some ambiguity , although I do not think that there is , it is a permissible aid to construction to seek to ascertain the mischief at which the section is directed .
2 A preliminary study using these molecular techniques has also failed to show a significant increased risk of alcoholic liver disease in individuals who are homozygous or heterozygous for both the PiZ and PiS mutant alleles .
3 Apart from the thrilling cries that try to resurrect the king , and the still figure of Jack Klaff , there is nothing radical or dynamic in either the vocalisation or the movement .
4 Absent or available for over an hour , the gift of speech had been restored to Alistair — speech , that prince of all the faculties .
5 So look for a neutral tone carpet , in shades of blue , pink or green with perhaps a delicate floral design .
6 Had he not better make that clear to both the Conservative and Labour Members who still believe that Britain could stay out of the developments that will take place in Europe ?
7 But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone .
8 This wine was light and fresh with quite a sharp dry taste , but not bad for the price .
9 It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible .
10 The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them .
11 The night was calm and warm with just a slight rustle of a breeze in the trees .
12 It sucked all warmth and courage from his body , leaving him chilled to the bone and fearful of even the smallest movement in the big house .
13 There is something intolerant and ungenerous about both the confessional and HCF models outlined above which fails to affirm the insights of those who start off from a different " confession " of whatever complexion this might be .
14 The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) .
15 Our homes are warm and cosy on even the coldest day , and well ventilated during the summer months .
16 Next , specific action may be agreed upon that is realistic and measurable with perhaps a contingency plan lined up too .
17 It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west .
18 The Decision 386/40 kit , based on MD 's 40Mhz 386DXL and available with either a 5.25 or 3.5 floppy , is designed for application developers and small business workgroup environments of up to 16 users .
19 ‘ Tell Bill the quarry sat relaxed and unconcerned throughout both the incident and the enquiry held at Thunder Bay yesterday morning , and I 'm certain he did n't plan the uncoupling .
20 He recognizes that this willingness to fillet the intellectual and thematic from even the most ho-hum work is absent from the Anglo-Saxon world , yet he also thinks that he understands it because of his own ( despite the tennis lessons and jogging ) Jewishness .
21 My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council .
22 He really had very nice hands , large but well-shaped with just a shading of dark hair on the back of his wrists .
23 Yet he finds the resistance is all but insurmountable on almost every level of the concert music business .
24 More people had attended the early services , but the day seemed as quiet and peaceful as usual with only the sound of church bells and the occasional ship 's hooter breaking the silence .
25 Applicants with any disability are strongly advised to contact the Adviser to Students with Special Needs early and when possible at least a year before making formal application for entry to the University .
26 Ideally , an archaeologist wants to obtain as much information as possible about both the stratigraphy of a site and its plan , but there is a conflict between the two approaches .
27 Close to the launch date itself we like to obtain as much publicity as possible in both the industry trade press and in national newspapers .
28 It was still taken as self-evident in even the most up-to-date fiction that being in love normally had only one outcome , marriage .
29 But it can place a large burden on operators and travel agents and any increases in the size of the bond are seen as likely to further the pressures for rationalization in the industry .
30 This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality .
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