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

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1 The sense of obligation which pervades and often exacerbates the traditional patron-client relationship is usually diminished or wholly absent in the author-subscriber relationship .
2 However , for a non-working partner this allowance could be partially or wholly transferable to the working partner ; i.e. there was transferability of tax allowances .
3 How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ?
4 If it is a matter of delicate legal analysis what the best interpretation of the precedents cited in McLoughlin would require in that case , then any answer provides very weak evidence about which decision would be most popular or most beneficial for the future .
5 Container growing is convenient , too , in that herbs can be protected in winter , the containers can be put where most convenient or most suitable for the herbs , and they can be used for decorating otherwise austere sites such as paving , basement areas and concrete yards .
6 But run too far in unsuitable shoes , whether the cheapest or most expensive on the market , and your feet will tell you .
7 Thus an MCF is a multiple NIF , allowing the borrower to draw funds by whichever means is cheapest or most convenient at the time .
8 The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms .
9 Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse .
10 This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties .
11 The political attitudes articulated by journalists and writers were by no means either homogeneous or uniformly hostile to the government .
12 The first component , the basic rock particle , can be large like sand and grit or microscopically small like the individual grains of clay , thereby imparting respectively much of the basic behavioural characteristics of different soil types : light and quickly draining , heavy , sticky and liable to waterlogging , or a happy medium in between .
13 The business of manhandling sacks has been replaced by automation , the grain being conveyed mechanically or pneumatically direct to the mill .
14 For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen .
15 A squint means that the eyes are not straight ; one is directed inwards or outwards relative to the other .
16 Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting .
17 Some of the key questions to be addressed are : Has the UK income distribution become more or less equal over the last 10-15 years ?
18 And Angela Hampel one of the GDR 's leading feminists now realises that while men and women were more or less equal in an impoverished communist society , in the capitalist West the great divide looms ever wider .
19 WHILE the doolally correspondence continues with old India hands by the dozen becoming involved , other words meaning idiot , and more or less exclusive to the North-East , are drying up .
20 And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ?
21 Thus Sunni power came to be founded upon Shia poverty , the first more or less conditional upon the second .
22 – The Russian peasants hardly began to migrate into the open spaces of Siberia before 1880 , though they moved in large numbers into the steppes of European Russia , whose settlement was more or less complete by the 1880s .
23 The aim of the research is to study the way the government has attempted to combine the various objectives , which , despite much talk in the past , have never been seriously linked , as planning had more or less disappeared over the period 1970-81 .
24 The share and rate of profit and the accumulation rate more or less stabilized at the very high levels established over the previous six years .
25 Unlike BR , where the decline has been virtually continuous , numbers in RENFE were more or less static between the mid-1970s and 1984 .
26 Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ?
27 So , if you drink four units ( is two pints of beer or two double gins ) over a period of four hours , there is likely to be only one unit or less remaining in the body when you finish .
28 No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen .
29 For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting .
30 When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation .
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