Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 This involved a 65mm camera that could do stop-motion by leaving the shutter open for an extended time and also refocus automatically while moving back and forth on a track as well as up and down , if necessary .
32 Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus .
33 → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model .
34 He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could .
35 They are all empirical , qualitative , aesthetic , concrete activities , and they all have a rich vocabulary and indeed literature .
36 Dental health may be a more general indicator of personal hygiene and possibly health care practices .
37 Pre-existing disease of the coronary macro-circulation and perhaps microcirculation may be the most important factors affecting mortality from acute myocardial infarction in diabetic patients .
38 There had been an American and Canadian scholarship and now training was available in Belgium .
39 In variable resistors of the decade box type of construction , the varying capacitance and possibly inductance of the switching mechanism can be a nuisance .
40 Nor are electric windows , central locking or even door handles ( you pull a body-coloured strap to release the catch ) .
41 We have attempted to align a previously independent field of inquiry , cognitive and developmental psychology , with evolutionary biology and particularly sociobiology , and in so doing have constructed an ensemble of models that trace , at times clumsily and imperfectly , behavioural development from the genetic blueprint to the assembly of the nervous system to the learning process — and then back down to the alteration of gene frequencies by natural selection operating within the context of particular cultures .
42 So that would be one salt whose actual nature and therefore weight and therefore your measurement of salinity will vary depending on the degree of drying .
43 where plaintiff recovers costs of suing first plaintiff from second plaintiff they will be taxed on standard basis and not indemnity or solicitor and client basis .
44 While the main focus of the Survey is on basic payments it is nevertheless a crucial benchmark because both bonus and overtime payments are to an extent determined by the basic or standard wage .
45 On political union key issues included strengthening the role of the European Parliament and the concept of European citizenship , while the Mitterrand-Kohl joint letter added the wider and more sensitive issues of possible joint security and even defence policies .
46 As always , there is also contradictory evidence and indeed theory .
47 The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors .
48 Mosley was there instead , his collar undone , casually attired without an official blazer and not sign of leather .
49 The trying climate , the oppression of the enemy , the difference of culture , the loneliness — these all work towards nervous stress and sometimes breakdown for the missionary .
50 Invariably , this is ordinary paint and not protection against rotting .
51 In this paper I have argued that criminal law is an extremely sophisticated , demanding and complex subject which can be presented as an ‘ introductory ’ course in legal education only by serious amputation and therefore distortion .
52 Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits .
53 However , there is good precedent for using such methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying altered responsiveness and particularly loss of awareness of hypoglycaemia .
54 It may be caused by an accidental or inadvertent release from an industrial plant , and the effects may range from annoyance ( e.g. odour ) through minor illness or discomfort ( nose , eye and breathing irritation , coughing , nausea ) to , in some cases , serious illness or even death as happened at Seveso , Bhopal and Chernobyl ( table 7.3 ) .
55 It can be absolute validation and extremely joy , a rope with which to hang or totally non !
56 Lairds , like Swans , was designated a Naval yard and therefore intervention fund and for the E E C. With the advent of the peace dividend , those yards , designated Naval yards can not compete with the merchant yards who receive the intervention fund , which is basically a subsidy that allows European yards to compete on a level plain with shipyards in the Far East .
57 Variable gearing changes aileron and elevator forces with airspeed Yaw damper is standard item but not flight limitation without .
58 The transsexual is one who utterly and completely rejects his biological sex , seeing personal fulfilment and even survival as possible only through the assumption in as complete a way as possible of the sex to which he feels he really belongs .
59 Rostov doubted if either his rank or his arguable status as both husband and father of members of the Royal Family would affect the outcome of such a discussion .
60 What in their different ways a , a , an Eliot , a Kafka or a Beckett — what they have had to come to terms with his the death of a tenacious pervasive yet curiously imprecise myth that somehow writing was different , that the masters of the past could in some way overcome this limitedness , that writing carried its own justification .
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