Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [Wh adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Excepting skin disinfection however residual effects are difficult to measure and unreliable .
2 Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) .
3 On opening any packet etc , I can see from the index card how long it is likely to last and then record it on the appropriate page of the notebook .
4 The planning blight of the 1960s is apparent everywhere in the poorly designed , poorly constructed high rise blocks , most in a state of disrepair , which replaced terrace houses when whole areas were cleared .
5 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is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there .
6 At the local level , we will tackle litter and graffiti and start to transform inner city environments by establishing neighbourhood action areas where local communities can develop their own plans for regenerating the area .
7 The power being generated by each engine at the time of impact has to be established by assessing the temperature of the turbine blades when ingested material impinged on the blades during the crash and by the type of damage sustained by the compressor and turbine blades or , if appropriate , the propeller damage and the blade pitch angles .
8 Furthermore , in whole body calorimetry studies when total H 2 and CH 4 excretion were measured in healthy subjects eating test meals of various fermentable carbohydrates , the amount of excreted H 2 that could be accounted for was much less in non-methanogenic subjects .
9 They were being interviewed in two undisclosed police stations after the violent reaction of local people on Tuesday night when other youths were arrested .
10 In view of its clear advantages over the other lasers , whose rate of energy delivery does not match the predicted physical behaviour of the blood vessels , we suggest that the pulsed dye laser should be offered as the first line treatment for portwine stains whenever possible .
11 They can be hacienda owners where feudal relations with workers on the hacienda may still exist , or capitalist entrepreneurs ( either owners or managers for very large corporations and transnational companies ) .
12 The one major dilemma involved the outer edges of the side panels where lateral extensions probably made in the early nineteenth century had darkened more than the original painting .
13 The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these .
14 There were dwarf fan palms where lazy lizards sought shade from the hot sun and thick-leaved aloes which Ruth skirted with care — the points were like needles .
15 Paradise was the lush coastal farms and the fishing islands where normal human beings preserved their traditions and their shapes by expelling all those who were born changed or who changed subsequently .
16 The interfaces in the document are based on industry standards whenever possible ’ , IBM said , adding that it will make all interfaces open and public .
17 The interfaces in the document are based on industry standards whenever possible , IBM said , adding that it will make all interfaces open and public .
18 Steaming is not restricted to tube trains : it happens on buses , in shops and even department stores where large items are stolen en masse in broad daylight .
19 And try to avoid frying food wherever possible , cutting out fat , and using an oil for cooking which is low in saturated fat and high in polyunsaturates — sunflower , corn and soya oil .
20 Teaching , then , can be conceived of as a research activity whereby experimental techniques of instruction are designed to correspond with hypothetical principles of pedagogy , with provision made for mutual adjustment so as to bring validity of principle into as close an alignment as possible with the utility of technique .
21 The same behaviour operates in reverse : if the real wage rate is regarded as abnormally low , they will withdraw some of their labour services in the knowledge that they will be able to command a higher reward for their labour services when real wages return to normal .
22 In fact , courts have tended to " save " such side letters wherever possible by taking a constructive rather than technical approach ( see Tootal Clothing Ltd v Guinea Properties Management Ltd , The Times , 8 June 1992 ) , but the following amendment to clause 17.1 may assist :
23 A post office is invaluable because it can also act as a bank , not only during the week , but on Saturday mornings when normal banks are usually closed .
24 Many people believe that there are schoolrooms and football grounds where civilized order is forever on the verge of breaking down .
25 This suggests that either the K + channel bearing cells were overgrown by other cell types when true confluency was achieved , or confluency was associated with full polarisation of the cells and mvoement of K + channels to the basolateral membrane , which was inaccessible to the patch pipette .
26 This subversion was largely achieved by astronomers enjoying the freedom of court patronage , rather than by those in university posts where traditional boundaries acted as constraints .
27 The frenetic rhythm of the animation , which Richard Williams suggests was imposed by the producers , may also quite possibly have something to do with concealing the matte lines where live action and animation join — if so , it succeeds in that respect .
28 The Paloma Blanca has its own tennis courts where friendly tournaments can be played .
29 Corporal punishment is already illegal in state schools following a previous Human Rights Court case , but today 's judgment leaves parents free to carry on choosing private sector schools where strict discipline is still the rule .
30 Nevertheless it has proved difficult to establish whether the resulting volume changes are sufficient to shatter rock , even in desert environments where diumal temperature ranges on rock surfaces can easily exceed 30 C. Since rock is a poor conductor of heat a thermal gradient is created when the surface is warmed .
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