Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adj] [noun] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black or white tri-laminate scratchplates come as standard , but these can be changed for a much more interesting and fashionable pearloid affair which , for some strange reason , costs a touch more . |
| 2 | Personal narratives or short autobiographical pieces function organisationally in much the same way as fictional narratives , except that the writer is constrained by existential rather than imagined events . |
| 3 | Health services and personal social services come under four appointed boards . |
| 4 | These things can happen on the smallest scale — within one family , when a husband treats his wife as a breeding machine — or on a national or international scale , when entire ‘ populations ’ come under pressure from the planners , and individual human rights become as invisible as the individual people the word ‘ population ’ conveniently obscures . |
| 5 | These things can happen on the smallest scale — within one family , when a husband treats his wife as a breeding machine — or on a national or international scale , when entire ‘ populations ’ come under pressure from the planners , and individual human rights become as invisible as the individual human people the word ‘ population ’ conveniently obscures . |
| 6 | In practice the major use of such agreements has been in the sphere of highway maintenance and construction , where old county boroughs and large urban districts have invariably continued to provide the service on behalf of their county council . |
| 7 | Some filter-feeders like the scallops do manage to travel : they clap their valves together convulsively and so make curving leaps , but by and large adult bivalves live rather static lives and the spreading of the species into distant parts of the sea bed is carried out by the young . |
| 8 | General statements that investment appraisals should include data on , for example , product enhancement , diversification , risk reduction and increased internal benefits do little more than say that something new is needed . |
| 9 | As has been said elsewhere in this book athletics reflects the society in which it exists and the experiences of Linford , his family and black British athletes mirror exactly those of the majority of black British citizens . |
| 10 | Electric fences around sensitive areas and electrified human dummies have also had some effect , apparently warding off marauding tigers . |
| 11 | Unpretentious yet beautiful orange brick and pantiled watermills , trout farms and farmhouses rest peacefully in isolated spots and cosy little hamlets appear unexpectedly as one turns of a bend of a woldland way . |
| 12 | The disease , often simply known as ostertagiasis , is characterised by weight loss and diarrhoea and typically affects young cattle during their first grazing season , although herd outbreaks and sporadic individual cases have also been reported in adult cattle . |
| 13 | 3 , square-wave tests ( creep or stress-relaxation ) and dynamic sine-wave tests yield more useful information than sawtooth tests , although in principle the results from one type of test are comparable with those from the others . |
| 14 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 15 | Among recent movements , the student movement of the 1960s , the women 's movement , and various nationalist movements have all produced new political concepts . |
| 16 | In the east of the country , the square and rectangular panelled designs suggest rather more movement — if not naturalism — " than those of the west , ( and , even in the mosaic with sixteen medallions — mosaic 10 , Verulamium : pI . |
| 17 | Fish and chips are most popular in Yorkshire and Humberside and Northern English homes spend less on fruit than the rest of the country . |
| 18 | There are few descriptions of the histological features of gold induced colitis , but a preservation of glandular architecture and diffuse inflammatory cell infiltrate sometimes with a prominent eosinophil component are said to be characteristic . |
| 19 | And , for all the trials of the Tory years , a healthy critical tradition has been maintained : a tradition to which Perry Anderson and New Left Review have notably contributed , both as component and critic . |
| 20 | Deer , antelope , buffalo and other grazing mammals have long been hunted by man for their meat and hides and for the other products they yield . |
| 21 | Is it not also a fact that , because industries in the north and north-west and other such places have increasingly been taken over by industries based in the south , the north has always been last for investment and first for cuts ? |
| 22 | This is mainly because the wages of education support staff ( such as nursery assistants and welfare assistants ) and other non-teaching staff figure much more prominently in the spending of special schools ( 27% ) than they do in the spending of primary ( 14% ) or secondary ( 11% ) schools . |
| 23 | At the industrial level , pharmaceutical and other biomedical enterprises do all they can to promote their products . |
| 24 | Once it drops below 5.3 , increased solubility of aluminium and other chemical effects lead progressively to the decline and loss of fish populations ( see below ) . |
| 25 | The first is to oversee the whole monetary system and ensure that banks and other financial institutions operate as stably and as efficiently as possible . |
| 26 | The CEGB and other official agencies have regularly pointed out that the public may not be happy to have giant structures in areas of scenic beauty . |
| 27 | This solution is familiar to accounting textbooks but the political and other behavioural consequences have hardly been addressed . |
| 28 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 29 | The National Front and other crypto-fascist fringe-groups have consciously attempted to use football as a means of spreading their ideology amongst young white workers and have specifically targeted certain clubs such as West Ham and Millwall . |
| 30 | Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and other environmental groups have sharply criticized the proposals because they leave British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , the plant 's operator , the option of increasing discharges without breaking the law . |