Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where these conditions do not prevail — as in health care — writing , setting , and enforcing comprehensive contracts which try to predict all contingencies and deal with all possible risks becomes very difficult and costly ( Bartlett 1991 ) . |
| 2 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 3 | After describing an examination which is taken at the end of schooling ( compulsory schooling ends at 16 , but just over half stay at school till 17 ) and which to British eyes seems remarkably casual , the HMI team observes : |
| 4 | British and W European race of Lesser graellsii has much paler mantle than Great , with contrasting black wing-tips , but in Scandinavian race fuscus mantle often as dark as Great . |
| 5 | For example , a yearly volume called Abstracts of English Studies gives very short summaries of a large number of articles published in a year ; there are indexes to help you find particular topics . |
| 6 | That 's why the negativism in British movies feels so healthy over here you 've got Mrs Thatcher . ’ |
| 7 | The resultant destabilization of covalent bonds brings about structural rearrangements on a timescale of 1–10 picoseconds , which under some circumstances can be followed by material leaving the surface . |
| 8 | The present verdict of many ethologists would be that the case for and against the olfactory and magnetic theories remains finally undecided ; but the evidence does suggest that the ‘ sun arc ’ hypothesis is false . |
| 9 | ( This method of counting courses assumes that the same HNC on offer in three different centres counts as three available courses . ) |
| 10 | It should be noted that access to files within VMS directories and hence the performance of LIFESPAN when accessing charge codes can be significantly hampered if the number of contained files becomes very large . |
| 11 | But a historian of modern transport can go to an enormous mass of recorded and photographed information when he can not find a surviving model of an early bombing aeroplane ; the historian of , say , medieval navies has infinitely smaller resources . |
| 12 | In tribal societies lineages commonly subordinate their material to their symbolic interests . |
| 13 | It follows that the meaning of ontological claims becomes fully transparent only if such claims are seen in the context of certain life-modalities of those who make such claims ; in effect , all such claims become interpretable as forms of man " sown self-understanding . |
| 14 | Therefore public transport policy for rural areas requires very careful evaluation , not only in terms of economic viability but also in terms of the social impact of reducing services . |
| 15 | True the archivist dealing with assorted disks from the 1970s office or even the politician 's word processor will leave detailed markup to others , but the demands of producing simple headers seems very relevant here ( Burnard 1993 ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , it may well be that the weakness in their democratic institutions explains why some of the Member States show no great concern about the threat to democracy posed by the present moves towards a federal state of Europe . |
| 17 | The journey of about 23 centimetres from the cervix , up the uterus and along the Fallopian tubes takes approximately 45 minutes and between 1,000 and 2,000 sperms reach the outer portion of the Fallopian tube … |
| 18 | The number of recorded serious crimes marches forever upward . |
| 19 | This to ordinary mortals seems quite inaccessible but it has been climbed , the first ascent being in 1967 . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the highly foliated nature of the carbon-bearing granulites suggests that much of their porosity is in the form of long thin cracks rather than less compressible , more rounded pores . |
| 21 | Life 's basic needs remains fairly constant — but we juggle the formula for fulfilment of these needs , until having reached a frenzy we go ‘ over the top ’ and the formula has to be reassembled . |
| 22 | In the US , for example , spending $1 billion on guided missiles creates about 9,000 jobs ; the same amount spent on local transport would create 21,500 jobs and on educational services 63,000 jobs . |
| 23 | The experience of older workers seen in large firms shows how tenuous is the reality of lifetime employment and the working conditions in small firms serves as a reminder of the human costs of long tenure . |
| 24 | The size of domestic cats varies far less than that of domestic dogs . |
| 25 | But the whole affair of Airbus and its new cousin lies in the deepest shadow that menaces Europe 's single-market project : the old-world urge to subsidise , to protect jobs and to create national champions remains depressingly intact . |
| 26 | Evidence garnered by reporters either in the courtroom or by pursuit of previous lovers produces highly sexualised stories . |
| 27 | So there are many examples in fact erm of the way in which economic affairs overlaps both domestic and foreign policy . |
| 28 | Britain 's comparative failure to ride out international economic difficulties lends yet further weight to microeconomic causes in the explanation of its comparatively poor economic performance generally . |
| 29 | I have worked with Basil Rocke over the years and have done this willingly knowing full well that Rural Studies has so much in common with Art . |
| 30 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |