Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 2 | A number of important topics will be on the agenda for discussion ; EEC fiscal policies in the light of 1993 ; the restitution of stolen or illegally exported works of art ; the progress on legislation regarding endangered species and protected materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell ; and the often prickly relations between dealers and auction houses . |
| 3 | This is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas . |
| 4 | Thus , the main purpose of identifying these risk factors in clinical practice is to allow the physician to decide which patients will require more prolonged or more potent ulcer treatment . |
| 5 | And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight . |
| 6 | Describing the liberal- minded students as " rowdies and trouble-makers " , he treated their concerns not as a social , political or even intellectual matter of significance , but as a short-term problem of public order . |
| 7 | Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ . |
| 8 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 9 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 10 | The Ronseal varnishes used here can also be applied to a painted or previously varnished surface that has been rubbed down with a fine abrasive paper . |
| 11 | In heavily trafficked areas , use complete or nearly full tiles |
| 12 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
| 13 | 3.13 The best way to form a view on the current level of damages for pain and suffering simpliciter is to study recent awards for minor injuries , where there has been a complete or almost complete recovery . |
| 14 | Is reading the romance a politically progressive or politically reactionary move ? |
| 15 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 16 | Even the island of nuclear stability , that metallic gleam in the physicists ' eye which promises stable or reasonably long-lived elements around atomic number 114 , can only add a few more to the current tally . |
| 17 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 18 | But are there dangers that it could also have undesirable or even disastrous consequences both to living organisms and to the environment ? |
| 19 | Taxation is designed to ensure that the losing party only has to pay those expenses properly incurred and is not saddled with the cost of unnecessary or unduly expensive work . |
| 20 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 21 | This contrasts with projects done in junior or earlier secondary classes where it is more usual for a group of pupils or even a whole class to participate , often sharing the work between them , pooling the results and producing a joint account . |
| 22 | These findings lend support to the view that persuading people to dispose of unused or rarely used medicines stored in the home might play a part in reducing the numbers of impulsive overdoses of these substances . |
| 23 | If not , subjects with limited literature may be subdivided too extensively , producing unused or little used subdivisions , whereas ‘ large ’ subjects , if allocated only the same number of subdivisions , will have some trying to accommodate unmanageable quantities of literature . |
| 24 | Nor would snatched snaps of us going home in our car that evening have revealed any particular closeness as my passionate tirade about his behaviour fell on deaf or rather sleeping ears as he lay comatose in the passenger seat . |
| 25 | When performed in normal circumstances , these strange behaviour patterns generally denote depraved appetite due to malnutrition , extreme hunger , indigestion , dietary deficiency , some kind of physiological upset or even sheer BOREDOM . |
| 26 | The lateral and ventral arm plates have distinctive transverse ridges most noticeable in dry or nearly dry specimens . |
| 27 | The " language of the game " is thus Creole or strongly Creole-influenced English . |
| 28 | to control the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , and generally to prevent the unlawful acquisition , possession and use of such substances . |
| 29 | ‘ controlling the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , … ’ ; |
| 30 | ( For example , the frequency of the collocate ’ pay ’ in the context of ’ money ’ would be compared with its frequency outside of that context : this may return a high positive value , indicating a high degree of association , or a low or even negative value indicating non-association or even repulsion . ) |