Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 2 | But this again was an administrative rather than a policy-making body . |
| 3 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 4 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 5 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 6 | Such an expectation would be unreasonable with container ships or with general cargo vessels , where hundreds of bills of lading may have to be issued , and the issuance of final documentation is often possible only after the vessel has departed from the place of shipment . |
| 7 | Power over the inclinations of the fallen ‘ flesh ’ is possible only when the Spirit is given control by our act of deliberate choice . |
| 8 | And the accompanying growth and refinement of categorial conventions is possible only because the system users have higher order beliefs and intentions . |
| 9 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
| 10 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 11 | A mile further on is White Scar Cave , the best known , most advertised and heavily patronised in the district and a compulsive halt for coaches and cars ; indeed , the large parking space , the roadside signs and shopping facilities make it a commercial rather than a show cave . |
| 12 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 13 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 14 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 15 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 16 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 17 | The Entrance Examination produced the usual number of candidates ( about 350 ) , but of these half would be interested only if a bursary or some other sort of aided place could be provided . |
| 18 | The National Association of Pension Funds would prefer to see executive share options exercisable only if the share price has out-performed a suitable benchmark , such as the FTA All Share Index . |
| 19 | That is most evident with out-of-the-money puts , exercisable only when the peseta touches an exchange rate lower than current forward rates . |
| 20 | So the decision in the Factories Act case was justifiable only if the Act was regarded as not plain . |
| 21 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 22 | This answer would be fully acceptable only if the speaker is fully aware of his situation and can do nothing at present to ease it . |
| 23 | Why should the position between the original tenant and the sureties be rendered completely different just because the reversion has been assigned , a transaction wholly outside the control of the original tenant and the sureties ? |
| 24 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 25 | A major domestic upheaval seems unavoidable soon after the Sun changes signs on the 20th . |
| 26 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the process of converting names into dealing clients was time-consuming and costly , although it would have been far less economical still if the Department of Trade 's regulations had been properly adhered to . |
| 28 | A MAN who killed his cheating wife walked free yesterday after a judge heard how he had dedicated his life to his family . |
| 29 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 30 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |