Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was totally oblivious of mess and basically needed an army of servants keeping things organised around him . |
| 2 | She wondered whether she heard unreal laughter as a self-inflicted punishment because she was incontinently fond of amusement and only liked people who made her laugh , no matter what their other qualities . |
| 3 | They were simple at first , like Poynder Terrace , but towards the end such houses as Manor Terrace were generous in accommodation and well constructed . |
| 4 | This is usually taken as indicative of contamination as either suspended or soluble matter . |
| 5 | But the cracks show that it is far less resistant to corrosion than previously thought . |
| 6 | The salaries of government employees such as doctors and teachers were subject to inflation and still suffered from the Soviet concept of paying intellectuals less than manual workers . |
| 7 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 8 | • Superb packaging in glossy library case , complete with index and specially commissioned booklet of notes and background facts . |
| 9 | The general principle for VAT is that consideration for a supply is inclusive of VAT unless otherwise stated . |
| 10 | The second part , which comes right up to the 1980s , will be international in character and recently acquired works by Fontana , Schnabel , Newman , Kelly , Gordillo and Navarro will be exhibited . |
| 11 | To be given tax free , such allowances must be seen by the Inland Revenue as being reasonable in amount and properly controlled . |
| 12 | In this way Brown ( 1979 ) devised five formative phases in the evolution of Britain which are necessarily unequal in length and almost plotted on a logarithmic time scale . |
| 13 | Many women complain of feeling chronically tired , tied to the home , unattractive , disinterested in sex and generally overwhelmed during early parenthood . |
| 14 | Formerly it was stilted , boring , narrow in approach and poorly laid out . |
| 15 | Formerly it was stilted , boring , narrow in approach and poorly laid out . |
| 16 | For one , much of scientific activity is not concerned with explanation as normally understood but with , " just finding out how things are " , " how things work " , " what things look like " . |
| 17 | The notebooks show that Nietzsche was prepared to rethink the precise shape of the book well into 1871 , but almost all of the numerous plans there — including some which appear to be earlier than " Socrates and Instinct " — point to a book centrally concerned with tragedy and recognizably related to BT . |
| 18 | In some instances , Islamic Religious Knowledge under the influence of Egypt becomes more concerned with belief and less centred on mere learning of the Koran ( Uganda and Nigeria ) . |
| 19 | John McNairn 's vision is bold in colour but similarly directed towards formalisation . |
| 20 | Being stuck at home and always told ‘ that 's your job ’ . |
| 21 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 22 | The institutional church , preoccupied with orthodoxy and fundamentally opposed to Marxism because it is viewed as materialistic and atheistic , is made up of bishops , priests , laity and religious movements who , though not very numerous , are powerful , partly because the laity of the group belong to the wealthier classes . |
| 23 | Where surrogate parents are unavailable , residential homes should be both small in size and fully integrated into the community as a whole , whether they be for short or long stay care , for children or adults . |
| 24 | It is his second interpretation , deriving substantially from Nietzsche , that has become dominant in deconstruction as popularly understood , where all meaning is turned into ‘ play ’ . |
| 25 | The houses which established the break-away syndicat were less illustrious in name and thus believed little could be gained from an organisation run by the élite for the élite and they therefore grouped together . |
| 26 | Like Paisley , Bradford was extremely conservative in theology and sufficiently opposed to the ecumenical movement to be forced out of the Irish Methodist ministry . |
| 27 | It is quite likely that the early mammals were nocturnal in habit and thereby avoided direct competition with the smaller dinosaurs . |
| 28 | But whether or not I am right about a Niemecz on paper 60 rpm for the machine 's flywheels , the tempo relationships of the pieces on all three machines ' barrels are a constant and it is interesting to see that the tempo range for pieces either minuet-like in character or specifically called minuets ( in available manuscripts or because of the music 's original sources ) roughly corresponds to the ranges of minuet tempos metronomized by Hummel and Czerny for Mozart and by Czerny for Haydn . |
| 29 | As a result , the wider human habitat , far from being humanised and ennobled by man 's agricultural activities , becomes standardised to dreariness or even degraded to ugliness ’ . |
| 30 | All jobs are open to jobshare unless otherwise stated . |