Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the old paradigm , companies are organized into a series of hierarchical tiers so that supervisors at each level can make sure that subordinates act according to plan . |
| 2 | While there has been some disagreement over the incidence of EEG spindling in neonates , the consensus of reports indicates that the development of spindles in the EEG of normal sleeping infants occurs between the end of the second month and end of the fourth , and the appearance of persistent spindling earlier or later than this time window tends to be associated with other clinical abnormalities . |
| 3 | But it seems that , regardless of the wider implications of the dispute ( it has been bracketed with refusals of voluntary aided status in its impact on religious and cultural autonomy ) , the issue was essentially one of parental choice rather than religion per se . |
| 4 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 5 | If the answers to Q5 and Q9 were both Yes , indicating that the process is competitive without the 4BA load and that the supply Q&R ; is acceptable , buying would again be indicated via Q8 since buying small quantities of mass-produced items rather than investing in equipment to make them in-house must improve the company ROC . |
| 6 | The scientist Robert Boyle was looking for a method of preserving corpses so that they could be used for summer as well as winter tutorials . |
| 7 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 8 | So they climbed it together — a touch of combined tactics here and a few serious moments there . |
| 9 | It is quite clear from studies of aboriginal peoples elsewhere that they could be astute traders and politicians , using the European newcomers for their own ends as much as they were being used . |
| 10 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 11 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |
| 12 | This is mirrored in a survey by Bunting ( 1981 ) in the UK , where it appears that the general public hold some realistic and generally favourable views of deaf people even though there is no understanding of the language needs of pre-lingually deaf people . |
| 13 | Do hearing people control the fortunes of deaf people politically and economically ? |
| 14 | Whether the proposed scheme will deliver the net benefit claimed in terms of the quality and quantity of teacher supply has been the subject of extensive comment elsewhere and will not be repeated here . |
| 15 | Such views were to move into the mainstream of Labour politics only when liberal capitalism collapsed under the strains of the First World War . |
| 16 | As a form of prudential supervision rather than administrative control , deposit requirements are consistent with the Maastricht treaty and the Single European Act . |
| 17 | The Party Programme , adopted at the same congress , promised only that the Soviet Union would ‘ do what it could ’ to assist socialist-oriented states in the developing world ; and authoritative commentaries made it clear that the USSR preferred the peaceful settlement of regional conflicts rather than the ‘ export of revolution ’ . |
| 18 | But , in pursuit of joint oversight responsibilities for these facilities in Wales , did the Secretary of State for Wales plead with that Department on the ground of regional policy alone as is pointed out by the Hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan ( Sir R. Gower ) , who is sadly absent today , in his early day motion that it makes no sense to move hi-tech jobs in Government research and development from an area such as south Wales to an overheated area in the south-east of England ? |
| 19 | Indeed , work published by the Home Office ( Field 1990 ) suggests that other indicators may capture the effect of economic conditions better than unemployment . |
| 20 | The framework will therefore be better suited to simulating the consequences of different kinds of economic behaviour rather than determining what form economic behaviour has or is likely to take . |
| 21 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |
| 22 | According to Ian Hawkins : ‘ The recession has tested the ability of management to cope with a period of economic downturn deeper and longer than anyone expected , and the venture capitalists ’ ability to negotiate their way through it . |
| 23 | They continue to perpetrate the discredited myth of economic invincibility rather than reflect the harsh realities of recession and reunification . |
| 24 | In the Czech Lands , Civic Forum was similarly affected by growing dissension within its ranks , though the cause was the pace of economic reform rather than nationalist tendencies . |
| 25 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 26 | List two quantities that you would like to know , or to know better , plus two types of observation you would like to make , or to make better , in order to extend our knowledge of the Cytherean interior and of the level of geological activity past and present . |
| 27 | Lowestoft was by far the biggest , erm and Lowestoft had a peculiar sort of administrative set up because they were what was described as erm a Divisional Executive and erm they had powers over their own committees apart from higher education which in modern parlance is further education . |
| 28 | ‘ When you get louts like this advising you on your scripts and your films , you live in a state of complete frustration rather than actual fear . |
| 29 | For example , some local authorities produce their financial statements very quickly ; on the other hand , they are able to do this by including more estimates of accrued expenditure rather than waiting for invoices to come in . |
| 30 | Indeed the term polis describes a certain kind of political society rather than state , if by state we mean a structure of government . |