Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designer attempts to reduce friction as far as possible , so most stepping motor systems have very little inherent damping and consequently a poorly.damped single-step response . |
| 2 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 3 | ‘ The girls would take their dresses off to tiptoe through that awful mire and then , coming back put them on again . |
| 4 | That awful thing that so many groups get themselves involved in , when they 're on a plane and they do a gig and they do n't even know what city they 're in , he 'd manage to avoid . |
| 5 | It was n't so easy in that awful room after about four hours without a word from anybody . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Fergus , ’ said Dierdriu softly , ‘ you will have to curb that rebellious arrogance if ever you are truly to serve Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | Surprisingly , these ultra-light pumices sink in water , since there is so little basaltic material and so much air space that all the air spaces are interconnected , and water can fill the whole mass . |
| 8 | it may not be applicable to all contaminated aquifers , in that low permeability or highly sorptive soils may prevent full dispersion of the microorganisms through the aquifer ; |
| 9 | Er and that 's been quite successful , about twenty five or thirty chief executives , chairman come to that lunch er each each quarter or so er we hosted about six of us and it 's a tremendous opportunity to get to know and be known er in the business community . |
| 10 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 11 | I believe it 's the intention of the authorities to try and do some very detailed work over the coming months , then armed with that detailed assessment and hopefully armed with your recommendations they may aim to be pr proceed to the modification step of the structure plan in a way that which will lead to a speedy conclusion . |
| 12 | Protagon is the new racket out of tennis mad Germany which feels like that old friend as soon as you come into contact with it , as soon as you shake it by the hand . |
| 13 | And , conversely , do n't however attractive the reason , have someone lower in that social pecking-order or less intelligent than yourself . |
| 14 | Hierarchical ranking operated within each social grouping as well as between members of different groups . |
| 15 | Was that another party as well ? |
| 16 | However , there is little direct evidence as yet on how such schemes actually affect workers ' attitudes to the company performance . |
| 17 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 18 | Early trials suggested that Salters ' A-level chemistry application-linked material could provide both a foundation for the future and a complete course and that improved motivation and more autonomous learning styles reduced drop-outs . |
| 19 | There are two methods of scoring a cloze test : one mark may be awarded for each acceptable answer or else one mark may be awarded for each exact answer . |
| 20 | You also find Marian that we were talking about that this morning as well we can not cover the national curriculum without more homework |
| 21 | I have in mind , for example , that research can often consist of narrow problem-solving routines , with little theoretical content and even with little empirical content . |
| 22 | Henry Fairfield Osborn , the influential Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History , coined the term ‘ adaptive radiation ’ to denote the episodes of expansion , and insisted on the orthogenetic character of evolution within each specialized group when once established . |
| 23 | Yet another complete Nutcracker and beautifully recorded too . |
| 24 | Disability glare is rarer and affects some low vision or partially sighted people . |
| 25 | The body is long and deep and it is a dual-purpose type with a good milk yield ( there is probably some Friesian blood as well ) and fine-grained , marbled meat . |
| 26 | To be patronised in a cloying , concerned manner , to be thought of as diseased or unclean , the result of some awful sin and therefore to be regarded as someone without hope — was her situation better than mine or worse ? |
| 27 | So do such ‘ predators ’ of the plant kingdom emit unpleasant plant pheromones or some other disharmonious vibration , some subtle energy or perhaps some electromagnetic ( e.g. infrared or microwave ) oscillation , to disturb and ‘ attack ’ the plants whose space they wish to overrun ? |
| 28 | ‘ Is n't this economic madness as well as social tragedy ? ’ he demanded . |
| 29 | Sometimes Anne was annoyed by this unnecessary furtiveness and sometimes wondered why John had not explained the situation to her sooner and let her decide whether she wished to be involved with him , but she pushed these doubts aside . |
| 30 | He calculates the mass , orbit , etc. of this hypothetical planet and then asks an experimental astronomer to test his hypothesis . |