Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this that is known as meiotic drive . |
| 2 | Furthermore it was discovered not only that the ratio of physician to population was substantially worse than for Israel or Jordan but that owing to insufficient funding and planning , 280 doctors were actually unemployed in the territories and another 120 were employed on low salaries under a local professional union 's absorption programme . |
| 3 | ( This latter was used to good effect by the hard-up Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; he would go to a party with a single cigarette in a packet and get free smokes all night long on the strength of it . ) |
| 4 | Another 1,300 are to go from Royal Ordnance factories . |
| 5 | They put to sea in an attempt to escape the martyr 's wrath , and were shipwrecked , with 160 of their vessels sinking and another 65 being driven to distant and unknown regions , where their occupants were slaughtered . |
| 6 | Another 117 were cleared for normal production after their milk samples showed levels of less than 50 parts of lead per billion for three successive days . |
| 7 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 8 | This last was spoken with Old Testament certitude . |
| 9 | His workshop is in Lotts Road , Chelsea and is an Aladdin 's cave ; trays of coloured gemstones , yards of sequins , buttons , beads , feathers and fans , gleaming armour , golden Egyptian mummies ' masks and much more are crammed with ordered chaos into the small rooms housing several staff , all happily hammering , stitching and gluing . |
| 10 | Flight-muscle homogenates of Hyalophora cecropia and Locusta migratoria will actively oxidize fatty acids by mechanisms not unlike those occurring in vertebrate tissues ( Gilbert , 1967 ) but much more is known of flight-muscle metabolism in the species that use carbohydrates . |
| 11 | These eight were treated by restorative proctocolectomy . |
| 12 | These latter are seen as central aspects in the perception of beauty . |
| 13 | These latter are equipped with sharp joints above the suckers and are used in a ‘ sawing ’ motion to cut through the shin . |
| 14 | The bulk of the blame for all that is placed on British Rail , which knowingly permitted these things to continue . |
| 15 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 16 | That is all that is required for plain partial knitting , side levers at I will permit knitting needles at B working position and side levers at O bring holding position . |
| 17 | We have suggested that your notes are too valuable to be carried about , but that with one Lecfile you can take down all that is required from various lecture courses and from reading in the library . |
| 18 | This is all that is required by postclassical criminology . |
| 19 | All that is known for certain is that Sigmar eventually put aside his crown and journeyed eastwards , supposedly to Karaz a Karak to meet his old friend Kurgan Ironbeard . |
| 20 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 21 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 22 | All that was left of human expression . |
| 23 | All this is framed in gender-neutral terms , but researchers have become aware of difficulties in finding women who can be placed by this classification in the ‘ higher stages ’ of moral development . |
| 24 | All this is achieved by kinetic energy — the shell contains no explosives . |
| 25 | All this is linked to four-wheel steering and ESC adaptive suspension , which adjusts its settings to limit body roll and optimise tyre grip during cornering . |
| 26 | The characteristic imagery of the industrial landscape or townscape in nineteenth-century literature — tall chimneys thrusting into the sky , spewing ribbons of black smoke , buildings shaking with the rhythmic pounding of mighty engines , the railway train rushing irresistibly through the passive countryside — all this is saturated with male sexuality of a dominating and destructive kind . |
| 27 | All this was done with great success and without any suspicions being aroused . |
| 28 | All three were remanded on conditional bail . |
| 29 | Although many Sinhalese were employed on rubber estates , there were local influxes of Indian Tamils into districts where rubber was established . |
| 30 | During the period of special measures , which had first been imposed in February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ; for additional special measures imposed in January 1990 see p. 37173 ] , Serbian police and Serbian troops ( the latter first being put on active service on Feb. 20 — see p. 37255 ) had faced widespread accusations of using excessive force to quell the strikes and demonstrations . |