Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But immediately Hilton makes it clear that such a life-style involves an active life of its own if the peace that is sought is to be found , for it may not be had : This has been defined earlier as : Such an active component of spiritual endeavour is a concomitant of man 's temporal nature . |
| 2 | This was an unreasonable wish since it was not clear that such a leader would be available and the effect of defeat might as easily have been an undesirable fudging of economic issues and a gerrymandering of constitutional issues . |
| 3 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 4 | The headhunting phenomenon of moving teams gained itself a bad name , and it is clear that such a practice is still scorned by many of the most reputable executive search firms and by many companies too , although it is accepted that it happened comparatively rarely . |
| 5 | It is clear that such a justification not only depends on very special circumstances but is essentially parasitic . |
| 6 | It is clear that such a strategy would produce an incorrect parsing when a short word followed by a long word is homophonous with a long word followed by a short word . |
| 7 | It should be clear that such a restoration is not to be undertaken lightly , and it should be entrusted only to a skilled professional . |
| 8 | When my hon. Friend the Minister made it clear that such a student would be invisible , that a student returning for the summer holidays would not affect that household , I was not sure whether the hon. Lady was pleased or angry . |
| 9 | The HWIM system experimented briefly with this method ( Woods et al 1976 ) , but it soon became clear that such an approach was unrealistic . |
| 10 | While the rules do not prevent this , Home Officer Circular 48/1991 , para 58 makes it clear that such an arrangement involves unnecessary duplication and should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances . |
| 11 | He had been relatively easy to control in the north while it was clear that all the going rested with Hope but in London , Newton had been much more sinister . |
| 12 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |
| 13 | In the event — 90 minutes without an interval — it quickly became clear that all the surveillance in the house would be cruelly trained on those unfortunates doomed to flesh out Brenton 's thoughts . |
| 14 | But it is equally clear that both the discovery of the first teichoic acid and those systematic endeavours afterwards are properly described as ‘ research ’ . |
| 15 | Almost immediately it becomes clear that both the number of management levels and number of managers can be sharply cut . |
| 16 | While monkeys are not normal elephant food , it is conceivable that such an event could occur ( or at least , it is hard , at the current state of the art , to envisage a reasoner that could reject this possibility without rejecting other , similar ones incorrectly ) . |
| 17 | The belief is still popular that such a race exists , rather than there merely being a cultural group based on nationalist , republican , and catholic religious sentiment . |
| 18 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 19 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 20 | And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did . |
| 21 | He 's got his own skateboard ramp in his back garden and he video tapes what he does so that he can watch what he 's doing wrong and all the rest of it . |
| 22 | The ball is kicked high and all the potential of these young lives is concentrated on it . |
| 23 | Its door was only a metre high and half a metre wide , so I could only just get inside on my hands and knees . |
| 24 | It may be argued that this issue was seriously underpriced and that the nation undersold-its asset by about 1.3 billion . |
| 25 | and he could n't do it , he was so totally embarrassed and all the rest of it , he had to get down and everybody was boo boo , chicken , chicken |
| 26 | Britten invests him with a memorable sententiousness of utterance , something one might call proverbial if such a word could apply to melodic line . |
| 27 | The 30 µm section is then immersed in 30% acetic until all the carbonate is dissolved . |
| 28 | I 'm glad that Pat used the word exciting but all the story you 've heard this morning are exciting ! |
| 29 | I think it 's very interesting since half the century has been concerned with this question of objects . |
| 30 | It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years . |