Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a government department is preparing fresh legislation it will frequently consult with outside agencies with a particular interest in and/or specialized knowledge of the subject . |
| 2 | It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed . |
| 3 | On the one hand , Duna is said to be thinking about buying the rights to a publish a Hungarian or European version of an unnamed US Unix programmers title , with current circulation of 7,000 . |
| 4 | It was either recovery or recession , modernising the health service or commercialising it , investing in all children or preserving opportunity for a few , said Mr Kinnock . |
| 5 | Therefore the signal extraction problem will yield different solutions depending upon the economic environment : economies with highly volatile aggregate demand movements will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a high proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock ; economies with highly stable aggregate demand will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a low proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock . |
| 6 | Therefore the signal extraction problem will yield different solutions depending upon the economic environment : economies with highly volatile aggregate demand movements will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a high proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock ; economies with highly stable aggregate demand will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a low proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock . |
| 7 | The disorder is sometimes seen as serving a homoeostatic or stabilising role in the family . |
| 8 | In short , he had a warm , human quality that defied the stereotype of the evangelist or extremist set on an unrealistic return to the past . ’ |
| 9 | While translating a treatise by the Scottish physician Dr William Cullen on the use of cinchona or Peruvian bark in the treatment of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , he was struck by Cullen 's assertion that the therapeutic effects of cinchona were due to its tonic , bitter and astringent qualities . |
| 10 | This is a fairy story version of race relations and it may reflect the hubris or wishful thinking of an intelligentsia which sets up its own preferred cultural practices as a referential model for everyone else . |
| 11 | At first trawl , and , of course , that is not impeccable as an approach , there seems to be no reference to a direct and discrete book , chapter or article on age discrimination in the membership of or allied involvement in the voluntary and community sector . |
| 12 | As most reflectance data were obtained from coal seams or coaly matter of the Westphalian , extrapolations of the measured values to the top Carboniferous were necessary , sometimes over vertical distances of several hundred meters . |
| 13 | Anything that alters the rewarding or punishing effect of the learning task ( if you are less hungry , thirsty or fearful , you are less likely to work hard to learn a task which provides food , drink or avoidance of electric shock as a prize for success ) will also affect the study of learning and memory . |
| 14 | This encourages a teleological or hierarchical view of the relation between the elements of the structure on the one hand , and its existence as a closed totality on the other : the parts are subordinated to the whole in a manner that conflicts with the principle of différance . |
| 15 | She , who was the victim of the harsh tumult of dissonance , observed how the noiselessness of the forest was made evident by the occasional snap of a twig or dry thud of a pine-cone falling to the ground . |
| 16 | Kugel 's emphasis is on the additive or emphatic aspect of the B-line : " A is so , and what 's more , B is so " . |
| 17 | The FRG and the USSR reaffirm that they will refrain from threats of the use of force which are directed against the territorial integrity or political independence of the other side … |
| 18 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 19 | Those that advocated social or political change in a reasoned and intelligent manner seemed to be either ignored or ended up defeated and disillusioned by the whole sorry mess . |
| 20 | Cynthia Chase s tightly argued and richly suggestive ‘ Primary Narcissism and the Giving of Figure ’ repays close attention , for in it she makes a case for the significance of Kristeva 's work to an understanding of post-structuralist notions of the ‘ uncertain agency ’ of language , not as it is often misunderstood , as cavalier irresponsibility , but as the indication of the ‘ imperative of linking an ethical or political project with a critical epistemology ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 21 | Culturally deprived and still closely tied to the village , the latter did nothing to raise the level of sophistication or political consciousness of the proto-bourgeoisie . |
| 22 | Wearing the portrait of a military or political leader upon a ring or on a coin mounted as a jewel was an obvious sign of allegiance ; other portraits of unknown individuals were presumably private commemorations . |
| 23 | Police have ruled out any sectarian or political motive behind the murder bid . |
| 24 | The Bakufu 's position was fatally flawed by its having little economic or political status as a national government : it wielded political power as proxy for the emperor using only the income from its own lands . |
| 25 | Capitalism is the penultimate social system , where private ownership of the means of production and the full use of money exchange allows owners of capital to exploit the mass of nominally ‘ free ’ people who must sell their labour to survive . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 27 | Barra was probably the fifth or sixth-century founder of the statelet . |
| 28 | The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements . |
| 29 | ‘ ( 2 ) Determinations of complaints under recognised schemes shall be made by reference to what is , in the adjudicator 's opinion , fair in all the circumstances of the case and any direction given to a building society or associated body by an adjudicator may ( if the complainant accepts the determination ) require it or the complainant not to exercise or require the performance of any of the contractual or other obligations or rights subsisting between them . |
| 30 | Crone found that the yellow spots on the leaves and pebbles were pollen from the tropical or subtropical bush of the genus Rapanea and of a tree of the genus Harpullia , common to rainforests . |