Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judicial review is the process by which the courts decide whether public bodies have acted within or beyond those powers . |
| 2 | If you are below or above these measurements , your build tends towards one end or other of the average frame size . |
| 3 | Mr Crawley , one of the plaintiffs and ‘ moving spirit behind both groups of companies ’ , agreed to settle the bills either personally or with some associates . |
| 4 | The tidal reach of the sea fills the lake so that at all times the water is brackish . |
| 5 | Once again the control cleavage pattern reappears very slowly so that at several sites the reaction is not complete even after 30 minutes . |
| 6 | So much so that on several occasions when obliged to contact him on police matters , Markby had found him positively obstructive . |
| 7 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 8 | At present , however , it still has limited availability so that for some patients sigmoidoscopy and barium enema examination provide an alternative . |
| 9 | Commonly , there are covariations of two or more measures , such as mean size and sorting , which Griffiths ( 1967 ) illustrated as being hydraulically controlled , so that in all environments the best sorted sediments had their mean sizes in the fine sand category . |
| 10 | Staiger concluded ( 1957 , and unpublished ) that form 18 is absent from predominately exposed-coast regions , so that in such areas there can be no polymorphism for chromosomes , even in intermediate habitats . |
| 11 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 12 | Where the resource areas are widely dispersed , the territory is large , and where the territory is small , the same number or extent of resource areas are closer together , so that in both cases the predator gets its food from similar sized hunting areas but from quite different territory sizes . |
| 13 | For HP 9000 Unix workstations and business servers , system-oriented software is moving from a seven-tier model to a three-tier structure based on expandability , not processor power so that in both cases , customers can increase processing power without incurring software-upgrade fees — eat your heart out , IBM AS/400 users . |
| 14 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 15 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 16 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 17 | Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke . |
| 18 | In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted . |
| 19 | As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient . |
| 20 | The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress . |
| 21 | In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates . |
| 22 | A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so . |
| 23 | The proportions of individuals with these alternative life styles differ between populations , so that in some areas of the world all individuals change sex . |
| 24 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |
| 25 | The TNCs will naturally and in many cases justifiably argue that what their critics consider to be the creation of new needs in developing countries in order to boost profits is , in fact , a response to changing consumer needs that arise in societies that are in the process of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 26 | Lake Balaton is western Europe 's biggest lake and in this region the sun shines over 800 hours during June , July and August alone and on most days temperatures rise above 25 degrees . |
| 27 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 28 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 29 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 30 | The problem is , they will not own up to their selectivity ( perhaps because in most cases , it is so biased as to be indefensible ) . |