Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] comprehensive [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infertility : Your Questions Answered by Tan and Jacobs ( McGraw Hill , £8.50 ) is a clear and extremely comprehensive guide for couples with fertility problems . |
| 2 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 3 | The nursing profession is moving forward rapidly , and in its evolution it needs to develop a clearer and more comprehensive set of skills . |
| 4 | As befits its largest city , Cardiff boasts the largest and most comprehensive institute of higher education in the Principality , with the exception of the Polytechnic of Wales at Treforest : the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education which was formed by the amalgamation of the Cardiff College of Food Technology and Commerce , Cardiff College of Education , Cardiff College of Art , and Llandaff College of Technology . |
| 5 | The poll , for the Press Association , is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign . |
| 6 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 7 | The material of the two lectures , though not originally envisaged in this connection , provided the starting point — but only in the light of Wagner 's flattering advice to " concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject " . |
| 8 | In this country where the same vicious law which imprisoned Wilde still operates one looks to those with pretensions to a scientific approach not to be victims of prejudice and intolerance but to give a lead for at least a saner and more comprehensive attitude towards the homosexual in society . ’ |
| 9 | It is abundantly clear that Mr Radice has two main objectives — to ensure that the Department of Health is required to give its reasons why a product licence for a medicine is granted , revoked , or suspended , and to ensure that patients are provided with better and more comprehensive information about the risks and benefits of the medicines that are prescribed for them . |
| 10 | The first substantial and historically comprehensive exhibition of Australian art to travel to Japan will go on display at the Tokyo National Museum of Western Art until 28 June and travel to the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto from 14 July to 6 September . |
| 11 | For the first part of the research we will rely primarily on printed government and church documents ; printed material on marriage and the family ( the NMGC has a readily available and fairly comprehensive collection of books and pamphlets published in the 1930s and 1940s ) ; books , reports and ephemera produced by the marital agencies ; and professional journals . |
| 12 | Anne Lewin , 8 Porchester Place , London W2 ( 071–723 7741 ) sells a small but very comprehensive collection of underwear and night clothes , ranging from plain knitted cotton bodies with satin-bound V necks to delicate silk chemises trimmed with a double row of tiny Gothic points . |
| 13 | I do not claim that this book is in any way a final or even comprehensive analysis of its subject matter . |
| 14 | Indeed , a recent and very comprehensive survey of handwriting recognition techniques and systems considered its significance to merit just one sentence : ’ Higher level linguistic rules such as syntax and semantics can also increase the recognition rate ’ [ Tappert et al , 1990 ] . |