Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome was widely regarded as a considerable rebuff for Rhee and a weakening of his position , underlined by the number of successful independents . |
| 2 | Such statements are only made after a considerable expenditure of time and effort by both the company and its auditors . |
| 3 | As a result , a political response to economic crisis does not arise automatically , but may only emerge with a considerable lag , and its content will be highly variable from polity to polity . |
| 4 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 5 | In the last decade magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) has become an established diagnostic tool in clinical medicine and improvements in experimental technique and equipment are still continuing at a considerable pace . |
| 6 | This was still overmanning to a considerable degree by world standards . |
| 7 | Pearce also met with a considerable degree of resistance from within British Aerospace in his efforts to steer it through privatisation . |
| 8 | The survey also points to a considerable rise in research and development investment , largely tied to pharmaceuticals , and says that the proportion of environmentally-linked spending should be 24 p.c. of the total in 1994 , against a level of 10 p.c. in 1991 . |
| 9 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 10 | Despite the discrepancy , these results suggest that the coals were formerly buried to a considerable depth , but not sufficient to commence gas generation . |
| 11 | This problem is also conveyed in the considerable rift that has opened up between those sections which are ideologically committed to the Labour Party and those which are indifferent if not actively opposed to it . |
| 12 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 13 | Development of new ranges has also continued at a considerable pace . |
| 14 | We also take in a considerable quantity of aluminium in certain foods , but this is normally in a ‘ non-bioavailable ’ form . |
| 15 | Unlike BR , RENFE management was also politicized to a considerable degree . |
| 16 | The king also depended to a considerable degree upon individuals who , like the leaders of the companies of the previous century , served in the royal army : Poton de Xaintrailles was for a period a ‘ veritable routier ’ , pillaging in different parts of France before accepting office under Charles VII ; Antoine de Chabannes , a captain of routiers , at one time had command of 1,000 horsemen before finding employment under the crown . |
| 17 | ‘ Refinement ’ or the reduction of competition from non-usable species , often leads to a considerable increase in the area occupied by the crop , so that once this is cut , there are lots of gaps for pioneers . |
| 18 | Labour is now linked in a considerable majority of voters ' minds with high prices , high taxes , trade union power and strikes — with an unattractive mixture of incompetence and chaos . |
| 19 | Some of these creatures now grew to a considerable size , 60 centimetres or so . |
| 20 | Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) . |
| 21 | The great advantage of having a fixed date er for these European elections on the ninth of June , a date that 's been well known for a considerable time now , should be the certainty for the electorate , that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to European elections , the number of er members of the European parliament that there will be representing the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | In looking for the means to undermine Chomsky 's position , generative semanticists were then attracted to a considerable body of philosophical thought devoted to showing the importance of the uses of language to an understanding of its nature ( work by Austin , Strawson , Grice and Searle in particular ) . |
| 23 | One is therefore guided to a considerable extent by the appearance of the joint and also relies upon the inspection procedure during manufacture . |