Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |
2 | Of course , this is a one-sided and distorting reading , but it provides a perspective from which some central Quinean themes hang together . |
3 | Some contemporary Labour groups have very open decision-making structures ; others are dominated by the party leader . |
4 | Sales of this typical high-fibre food have hugely increased in recent years . |
5 | National boundaries have changed , sometimes dramatically , over the last hundred years , and some traditional rug-producing countries have since been absorbed into modern states . |
6 | In this chapter I first consider the underlying rules for associative learning and suggest that some useful general principles have already been uncovered . |
7 | All the different complex organic molecules work together to form the entire organism . |
8 | It was n't just a matter of image for Switchboard though , or a way to make a few right-on gay men sleep easier in their beds . |
9 | The French , Italians , Scandinavians , Dutch and Swiss come to play at prices that make some new hot spots look positively expensive . |
10 | Craig McDermott and some other fast bowlers have predictably labelled the one-bouncer-per-over-per-batsman rule as ‘ ridiculous ’ . |
11 | Detailed invasive haemodynamic investigations have now shown increased vascular resistance in both systemic and pulmonary circulations , with an increase in aortic systolic and diastolic pressures of 17–20% and 12–16% , respectively , and a relatively greater rise in pulmonary systolic and diastolic pressures of 40–50% and 33–77% . |
12 | Some modern sample-based studies have successfully explored the relations between social origins , attitudes and behaviour . |
13 | Most mixer taps simply use the hot and cold knobs to control flow and temperature , but some modern one-hole mixers have just a single lever which does both . |
14 | In relation to churches serving other denominations , it has been the case until recently that Roman Catholic churches have rarely fallen out of use , although the general decline in religious observance is beginning to affect some of these buildings too . |
15 | The technological details of the 1991 Ligier-Lamborghini V12-powered chassis have yet to be decided . |
16 | But , of course , such slight diagnostic indications mean little unless a theory is to hand which can explain their crucial importance . |
17 | The likelihood is that such spare syntactic structures appear very infrequently as independent forms in actual use . |
18 | This may make some sense for the bourgeois ‘ art ’ tradition ( though probably not as much as he thinks ) but when the elements of the entire musical production-consumption process become both more unified and interdependent , and more ‘ socialized ’ , it becomes less appropriate . |
19 | Where space is particularly limited sliding mirrored doors prove very popular as they automatically create an illusion of spaciousness in even the smallest of rooms . |
20 | But for Iain such everyday adolescent misadventures have already been left far behind . |
21 | Warner 's unpublished natural philosophical writings date mainly from this period , and deal with such diverse topics as logic , psychology , animal locomotion , atomism , time and space , the nature of heat and light , bullion and exchange , hydrostatics , chemistry , and the circulation of the blood ( which Warner claimed to have discovered before William Harvey , q.v . ) . |
22 | These apocalyptic still lifes emphasise more strongly than the earlier work Christa Dichgans ' preoccupation with the psychic reality of objects . |
23 | The effects of differential immunosuppression and of coexistent serious opportunistic infections have probably been important given the poor protection effected by youth in our matched controls , but the significant reversal of even this minor association should probably not be ignored . |
24 | A new born baby can be really quite chubby and these little premature babies have very , very little fat under their skin and fat insulates us does n't it ? |
25 | Small or cobby good natured ponies do well in covered straw yards |
26 | These various new proposals have now been put into effect and a Committee for Institutions has come into being . |
27 | Two or three high-speed automatic membrane-osmometers have now been designed to reduce these drawbacks and are commercially available . |
28 | As we age , these basal epidermal cells reproduce less quickly and efficiently , produce fewer essential components and do not hold water so well . |
29 | About half a dozen big black cars have just pulled up outside . ’ |
30 | Three other 1993 reunions have also been arranged . |