Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer can not be given by considering whether in the context of utterance it is likely to produce attitudes of some distinctively ethical sort , rather than some non-ethical attitudes or perhaps beliefs . |
| 2 | Metaphors , descriptive words and even nouns can lead to vagueness and ambiguity for the reader . |
| 3 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 4 | The view of political parties as simply organizations for winning political power is clearly only a caricature . |
| 5 | ( Cauchy , in 1815 , had defined multiplication of permutations , whilst Gauss , in 1801 , had combined pairs of binary quadratic forms and also integers " mod p " . ) |
| 6 | Rigid plans that only work if they are adhered to at every step rarely provide the means for getting back on target once a significant deviation has occurred . |
| 7 | For some species of spider will blatantly mimic the ‘ come-hither ’ sound signals and even sex pheromones of female moths , luring lusting males to a dinner party they had not expected . |
| 8 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 9 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 10 | But if you do believe it then you must also believe the rest of it and realise that our relationship is destined to move along quite different channels than purely business ones . ’ |
| 11 | This will produce different responses as both people and animals around her may react differently to each ‘ phase ’ . |
| 12 | Sexual offences and particularly rape may fall into this category . |
| 13 | Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time . |
| 14 | In 1991 , 62% of management buyouts recorded in continental Europe consisted of divestments from domestic or foreign companies and only 33% from private or family companies . |
| 15 | Rachel and David joined in the quest for the green cases that housed the shiny brown conkers and soon pockets and paper bags were bulging as the collection grew , while the sound of spontaneous laughter hung in the still air . |
| 16 | As soon as he began to march south , German mercenaries and then men from the non-Norman states came to offer their services . |
| 17 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |
| 18 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 19 | Piece by piece , a picture emerged of wrong-doing in high places and eventually congress and law enforcement agencies were obliged to take action . |
| 20 | Mosaic floors , stencilled walls , ornamental cast-iron balustrades and even examples of original carpets have been photographed . |
| 21 | You 're looking for high fliers and even car firms can go bust the second year . |
| 22 | Indeed , many top athletes and even body-builders subsist on a vegetarian diet . |
| 23 | The wastes include lindane , DDT , out-of-date drugs , carcinogenic chemicals , old cigars and even pornography ( a different kind of pollution ) . |
| 24 | We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals . |
| 25 | It has offered bonuses in British Telecom , British Gas , British Airways and lately water privatisation Concessionary Discounts , available from January 1990 for £2.50 from Seymour Pierce Butterfield , 10 Old Jewry , London , EC2R 8EA . |
| 26 | Later on , however , the names of those who had graduated in the social sciences and especially sociology were greeted with hissing disparagement and barely concealed denigration . |
| 27 | Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me . |
| 28 | In these circumstances almost every eighteenth-century army was likely to contain a large element of ne'er-do-wells , social misfits and even criminals . |
| 29 | His artistic debts were to the French Romantics and also Goya , Wiertz and Hogarth . |
| 30 | Okay so this strikes us as a rather eccentric claim er he does qualify it , he says that there may be cases where there are n't enough people of independent means in a country to present themselves , he does n't mean England here he means some of the dependent territories and then members of parliament should be paid compensation rather than a salary . |