Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 2 | Fish should be prepared for their winter vigil by judicious feeding with ants ' eggs , dried flies or freeze-dried worms until the weather turns cold and they cease to be active . |
| 3 | All but one of the most successful young people planned to remain with relatives , natural parents or foster carers after the local authority withdrew its support . |
| 4 | Examples may focus on differences in the structure of their language or parental relationships or the lack of parental knowledge of child development . |
| 5 | The view taken by the district on the relative importance of these two needs is likely to be a large influence on the competitive pressures faced by a given unit , as is the existence locally of other public or private providers and the number of GP budget-holders . |
| 6 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |
| 7 | Since the first publication , the system has been revised at seven- or eight-year intervals and the eighteenth edition was published in 1971 . |
| 8 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 9 | What encourages children to read and thus to learn to read is not some ‘ intrinsic reward ’ like praise or high marks or a special treat , but being able to read . |
| 10 | In connection with the opposition to private legislation , care should be taken about accepting mere assurances of good intentions or generalised statements that the client is not affected . |
| 11 | Positivist research has generated much data about specific relationships between individual or social characteristics and the likelihood of conviction . |
| 12 | It is felt that fewer people would be put off attending with other genital or sexual problems if the stigma of going to a ‘ VD ’ clinic could be dispensed with . |
| 13 | According to John Herbert , who became second Secretary of State in 1600 , it had three principal functions : the business of the Queen , in which it ‘ doth handle principally questions and consultations of state ’ ; disputes between party and party , which might involve either criminal or civil suits or a mixture of the two ; and disputes ‘ wherein the Queen is a party ’ . |
| 14 | ( c ) A check against target costs or standard costs and a long-stop for the budgetary control of individual projects . |
| 15 | Most clients sought their information via directories or personal contacts and a dominant influence in selection was experience of past work . |
| 16 | These images behind religious , secular or allegorical subjects as the century moved on , greatly appealed to the English . |
| 17 | The usual symptoms are a faint pink rash with a slight fever , perhaps swollen glands or aching joints and a general feeling of being off-colour . |
| 18 | The usual symptoms are a faint pink rash with a slight fever , perhaps swollen glands or aching joints and a general feeling of being off-colour . |
| 19 | The design of the scissors makes them suitable for both left and right hand users , in a choice of black or white handles and the prices range from £5.50 to £9.50 per pair . |
| 20 | This kind of worry is expressed more often in relation to the newer modular or semi-modular structures than the more traditional general degree which may have well-established patterns and requirements , but it nevertheless seems to be a widespread one . |
| 21 | It is policy of the Corporate Finance Group not to hold client money , title documents or custodial investments because the necessary systems , procedures and expertise are not in place . |
| 22 | The more violent film was not followed by any more intense or hostile dreams than the bland one — perhaps indicating how accustomed these young subjects were to watching violent westerns ! |
| 23 | The accompaniments will include a chilli sauce or sliced chillies and the ubiquitous fish sauce — nam pla . |
| 24 | Early prisons were built in castles or large houses and the former contained state prisoners . |
| 25 | With the co-operation of music groups organized by such pan-tribal or national organizations as the TANU Youth League , the police and the National Service , RTD also promoted new music which was an amalgam of various traditions , both local and foreign . |
| 26 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 27 | Does he accept that many Conservative Members are anxious that any future measures should be directed specifically towards those receiving small pensions or basic pensions but no works or professional pensions ? |
| 28 | The ‘ new approach ’ Community legislation limits itself to setting the essential or basic standards and the detailed specifications that implement these standards are delegated to relevant European Standardisation bodies such as CEN ( European Committee for Standardisation ) or sectoral bodies as , for example , CENELEC ( European Committee for Electro-Techinal Standardisation ) for the building and electrical industry and ETSI ( European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) for telecommunications standards . |
| 29 | The term syntagmatic was attached by Saussure to the sequential or combinatory relationships that a given language system permits : the relationship between the three sounds , for instance , that make up the word ‘ tree ’ , or the syntactical relationship between the words ‘ the tree is green ’ , and so on . |
| 30 | The overall width of the print zones and print field , the number of figures or decimal places and the print format may be controlled by setting the print variable , @% , to the appropriate value . |