Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to principle 3 , on market practice , a firm should ‘ comply with any code or standard as in force from time to time and as it applies to the firm either according to its terms or by rulings made under it . ’ |
| 2 | I was told that people in that city were more concerned about being able to live safely in their homes , not having their cars stolen , and not being burgled or mugged than about unemployment or any of the other big economic issues . |
| 3 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 4 | Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries . |
| 5 | The science may be old and well established as in mechanics , or novel as in biochemistry . |
| 6 | Like his [ sic ] colleagues in most developing countries , he is , to say the least , unprepared and unwilling to serve in rural areas and has to be forced to do so although he is fully aware that rural areas and people are most undeveloped and disadvantaged because of lack of human , material and financial resources .... |
| 7 | Where a comparison can be made , the data show that , in the more developed countries , the risk of material mortality is greater at ages 45 and over than below age 15 but , as mentioned above , in the region of Asia and Oceania and in Mexico , mothers below age 15 incur by far the greater risks . |
| 8 | The FAO expects at least 10 million hectares a year to be cleared between now and 2050 because of population pressures . |
| 9 | Given these qualifications , broad categories of value are locative — names derived from place-names or topographical features ; of relationship — names of fathers or mothers , with additional syllables , pet names , font names and diminutives ; occupational and social status — indications of trade , calling or office , carried down the centuries , often in mutilated or garbled form ; nicknames — tags and sobriquets which were sufficiently distinctive , felicitous and pronounceable as to stand the test of time . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal required the council to give such an undertaking , as a condition of the grant of an injunction , first because , as Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held , in English law the discretion to dispense with such an undertaking in cases where an injunction is sought to restrain an infringement of the criminal law is available only to give effect to a privilege of the Crown alone and does not extend to local authorities exercising the function of law enforcement ; and second because under Community law an undertaking must be given were necessary to protect any Community law right of direct effect which might possibly be affected . |
| 11 | Many of them had large , impressive noses , which the Thing said was perfectly OK and all because of genetics . |
| 12 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 13 | ( 1973 ) and Hamnett and Randolph ( 1983a ) , much of the urban-rural shift in the more heavily populated parts of the country would seem to comprise essentially suburban movements which have been forced to become ‘ exurban ’ and inter-urban because of pressure on space . |
| 14 | Additionally , the standard errors of the estimated coefficients are larger in Models 2 and 3 than in Model 1 . |
| 15 | We should refuse to be ‘ good sports ’ and to ‘ play the game ’ when the deck is so stacked against us by a baroque system of government so ludicrous and infantile as to beggar description . |
| 16 | It can be costly and inefficient because of commission for brokers to assist in disposing of the goods , delays in finding a buyer and insurance to cover the risk of non-delivery . |
| 17 | The frame connection is usually on the rear cross-spar , and the endcap on the sail will be in-line but , depending on the shape of the sail , the stand-off will be either rigid and straight or flexible and curved when in position . |
| 18 | The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time . |
| 19 | In Siberia they are more widespread and varied than in North America , where glaciation was heavier and longer-lasting . |
| 20 | The data also show that at the thicket stage in coniferous plantations the ground flora is much less diverse and dense than in control sites of similar age which consist of semi-natural mixed oak ( Quercus spp. ) stands . |
| 21 | What at the outset in 1854 had been perceived as a bonus , an extra but due as of right to the workers , had by 1862 become ‘ the bounty to labour ’ , a gift bestowed and so gratuitous . |