Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Welsh and English alike took care to put their valuables and their armour , if they had any , safely under lock and key , for if the returning troops were to be billeted in the town , even for a few nights , there would certainly be some looting , and no sane burgess was so loyal a king 's man as to be complacent about losing goods and gear without a struggle to preserve them . |
| 2 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 3 | Both boys and girls make identifications with their fathers and mothers , and the relative strength of these will depend on the degree of bisexuality in the individual : the more masculine the girl , the stronger the identification with her father is likely to be ; the more feminine the boy 's constitutional make-up , the stronger the identification with his mother is likely to be and the weaker his identification with father . |
| 4 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
| 5 | If this is so , it should follow that the more gratifying a mother 's physical-care practices are , the greater should be the child 's developing attachment to her . |
| 6 | And as I say , the more competent the stewards ' committee became , the less frequent that it was necessary to have the sh the full time officers in . |
| 7 | Sometimes it seems more appropriate to describe tonic stress placement in terms of ‘ information content ’ : the more predictable a word 's occurrence is in a given context , the lower its information content is , and tonic stress will tend to be placed on words with high information content . |
| 8 | If the noise is still unbearable a tenants ' refuge is available for residents . |
| 9 | Graham Ward , the Price Waterhouse partner on the Prudential audit and vice-chairman of the Institute 's Auditing Committee , says : ‘ The more efficient a company 's accounting function might be , the less time it should take to do the audit . ’ |
| 10 | At a cost of £10 million a year , the additional funding is nearly double the NCC 's annual budget prior to last year 's decision to split up the organization . |
| 11 | The more nearly vertical an object 's trajectory , the deeper it penetrates into the atmosphere before catastrophic disruption . |
| 12 | The more nearly vertical an object 's trajectory , the deeper it penetrates into the atmosphere before catastrophic disruption . |
| 13 | Later , he comments on this , as follows : ‘ In treating of the development of the notion of thought , we may regard as primitive the child 's conviction that it thinks with the mouth . |
| 14 | They 're really good the ones er of your trolls Carla it looks like it 's an actual |
| 15 | Fidelma was as unlikely a lady 's maid as one could hope to find in a month of Sundays . |
| 16 | ‘ Are we even sure the library 's intact ? ’ |
| 17 | Few now want to follow Philadelphia 's lead and cut museums off from the public purse altogether — a policy that would surely up-end the Met 's unrivalled success at striking the right balance between showbiz and the unworldly . |
| 18 | Equally important the Chairman 's office is colocated with the Secretariat and this has led to increased efficiency in the conduct of the profession 's affairs . |
| 19 | Their task , as they saw it , was largely one of preserving internal stability while adroitly guiding the organization 's response to fast-paced external change ’ ( Waterman et al. , 1991 : 51 ) . |
| 20 | The cloak , in this case , represents a last hold upon life , and however disproportionate the child 's grief may appear , it is still explicable in terms of human psychology . |
| 21 | If they did not act in order that the plaintiff should suffer damage they are not liable , however selfish their attitude and however inevitable the plaintiff 's damage may have been . |
| 22 | Not all the editors are guilty : the volumes prepared by Busser , Guilmant , Hahn , Marty and Debussy , for instance , may not measure up to today 's scholarly standards , but in most respects they do not seriously misrepresent the composer 's intentions . |