Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need at this stage to give explicit gory or shameful details but only to begin to recognise that the simple facts of the previous behaviour and consequences do not fit with the previous belief that all this could be managed satisfactorily alone and without outside help . |
| 2 | The personal-impersonal nature of Gandhi 's descriptions of God is clearly illustrated here but the point already made earlier can be reiterated , namely , that it is not important to him whether God is conceived of in personal or impersonal terms since neither superiority nor inferiority of expression is implied in either case . |
| 3 | Not all small towns possessed governmental or administrative functions and even those which did more often than not combined them with others . |
| 4 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 5 | Similarly , graphs can be presented without zero points , compressed or expanded scales and so on . |
| 6 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 7 | When pounded sufficiently fine it flushed out through sieves or perforated plates and thence to hoppers or heaps for further processing , it was important to keep the grills clear , and the stuff moving , for it was vital not to overstamp it into slime . |
| 8 | Although these methods of payment are not usual for normal trade credit transactions they should be considered where sizeable amounts or longer than normal credit terms are involved . |
| 9 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 10 | The earliest textile mills were similar to the traditional water-powered flour mills because they consisted of load-bearing masonry external walls and wooden floors held up by timber posts or cast-iron columns and often occupied equally remote rural locations in order to exploit fully the power provided by the rushing streams of narrow Pennine valleys . |
| 11 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 12 | you know it does n't mean to say that you 're wrong because you like to have a go or jump in and you 're not wrong if you like to have time to spend , there are no right or wrong styles and also what we ca n't associate the styles with , which people try to do sometimes is they try and identify the introverts and extroverts . |
| 13 | In that partnerships depend not just on technical or logistical arrangements but also personal commitment for their success they may be thought to resemble matrimony . |
| 14 | An investigation of 300 boxmakers in 1915 ( of whom 78 per cent were married women and 16 per cent widowed ) found that one-third were totally dependent on their earnings , one-third partly dependent , and one-third worked only for ‘ pin money ’ ; but a much larger study of Birmingham workers in 1906 had found that 52 per cent of outworkers ( a category including those employed in small workshops and homeworkers ) were married with husbands earning small or irregular wages , 46 per cent were widows or deserted wives and only 0.4 per cent worked for pocket money . |
| 15 | All directors , whether nominee or non-executive directors or otherwise , must act honestly and use reasonable diligence and skill in the discharge of their duties ( See Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co [ 1925 ] 1 Ch 407 ) . |
| 16 | The worry takes two main forms : that American managers spend too much time thinking about short-term earnings rather than making long-term investments ; and that American firms face a higher cost of capital than Japanese or German rivals and so reject investment projects that others eagerly accept . |
| 17 | Supporting this work are the government 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and the US Air Force , which are responsible for cleaning up poisoned communities like love canal , or old plants that once made the herbicide Agent Orange . |
| 18 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
| 19 | The rational approach would be to say candidly that the question , being legislative , must be settled with the help of the policy implicit in the Act , or by reference to convenience or social requirements or generally accepted principles of fairness . |
| 20 | In 1991 , 62% of management buyouts recorded in continental Europe consisted of divestments from domestic or foreign companies and only 33% from private or family companies . |
| 21 | damage caused by wear and tear , depreciation , rot , fungus , insects , vermin , atmospheric or climatic conditions or gradually operating cause ; |
| 22 | RENFE repeatedly complained that deficit financing weakened management ‘ which has not been motivated by economic or commercial considerations but purely by technical ones ’ ( RENFE 1971m : 49 ) . |
| 23 | Each abounds in imaginative little surprises — sudden lapses into folk themes or popular dances and even a mock ‘ Turkish ’ episode enliven their finales . |
| 24 | Initially this could be on the basis of individual projects or overhead accounts and subsequently in as much detail as management consider necessary . |
| 25 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 26 | The second has been measured by studying the movements of barium , or radio-opaque shapes and more recently radioactive isotopes . |
| 27 | Under Part I of the 1987 Act damages can be claimed for death or personal injuries and also for loss of , or damage to , property ( including land ) which is : |
| 28 | Authorities following this strategy are less vulnerable to the control of professional groups or corporate interests and correspondingly more open to popular pressure . |
| 29 | So an insistence on the importance of principle in no way denies the value of experience or customary practices but simply requires that they are subjected to evaluation , and not just taken on trust . |
| 30 | Pure liquids and solids often give broad or asymmetric bands and so it is very difficult to measure frequencies precisely . |