Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 2 | But this again was an administrative rather than a policy-making body . |
| 3 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 4 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 5 | But if it 's due in when the project originally was which was week five , then that |
| 6 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 7 | Such an expectation would be unreasonable with container ships or with general cargo vessels , where hundreds of bills of lading may have to be issued , and the issuance of final documentation is often possible only after the vessel has departed from the place of shipment . |
| 8 | Power over the inclinations of the fallen ‘ flesh ’ is possible only when the Spirit is given control by our act of deliberate choice . |
| 9 | And the accompanying growth and refinement of categorial conventions is possible only because the system users have higher order beliefs and intentions . |
| 10 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
| 11 | Many of them were possible only if the NILP got control of Stormont and were propaganda points in its ideological war against the doctrines of Orange and Green . |
| 12 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 13 | Apart from Simon Hughes 's redoubt in Southwark and Bermondsey , the Liberals today are strong only where the Liberals were strong in the '50s and '60s — in Scotland , the West Country and parts of Wales . |
| 14 | A mile further on is White Scar Cave , the best known , most advertised and heavily patronised in the district and a compulsive halt for coaches and cars ; indeed , the large parking space , the roadside signs and shopping facilities make it a commercial rather than a show cave . |
| 15 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 16 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 17 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 18 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 19 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 20 | The Entrance Examination produced the usual number of candidates ( about 350 ) , but of these half would be interested only if a bursary or some other sort of aided place could be provided . |
| 21 | The National Association of Pension Funds would prefer to see executive share options exercisable only if the share price has out-performed a suitable benchmark , such as the FTA All Share Index . |
| 22 | That is most evident with out-of-the-money puts , exercisable only when the peseta touches an exchange rate lower than current forward rates . |
| 23 | So the decision in the Factories Act case was justifiable only if the Act was regarded as not plain . |
| 24 | The Raj , specifically that of the British , is their invention — oddly , unknown to those Britons who actually did the ruling : it reached English long after the troops came home in 1947 , and thanks , mainly , to the BBC . |
| 25 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 26 | This answer would be fully acceptable only if the speaker is fully aware of his situation and can do nothing at present to ease it . |
| 27 | Why should the position between the original tenant and the sureties be rendered completely different just because the reversion has been assigned , a transaction wholly outside the control of the original tenant and the sureties ? |
| 28 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 29 | A major domestic upheaval seems unavoidable soon after the Sun changes signs on the 20th . |
| 30 | ‘ This show is going to be the noisiest or the most interesting ever because the technologies are in transition , ’ Cray said . |