Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special anti-foam additive also gives a more complete fill-up with less spillage , and a deodorant reduces smell . |
| 2 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 3 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 4 | The critical approach to knowledge brings with it a state of intellectual freedom , in which the individual is freed from unquestioning faith in any view of the world . |
| 5 | This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly . |
| 6 | It has been of considerable economic advantage to both countries . |
| 7 | Classroom talk , despite the apparent conversational liveliness of many classrooms , could be shown on closer examination to be somewhat impoverished and unchallenging , with a general tendency to discourage children from asking their own questions and thinking things out for themselves , and a lack of informative feedback . |
| 8 | Moreover , they could learn to make the conditioned response with both eyes , lesions to both sides of the cerebellum were necessary to abolish the conditioned response . |
| 9 | He has faced the toughest election of any Tory chairman for 20 years , while spending the afternoons dashing to Bath to defend his own marginal seat against a strong Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 10 | Following a speech by Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , to barristers this month , there have been fears that senior judges involved in drawing up rules would effectively block the use of the new rights in practice , by insisting that preparation of some cases and their presentation in court should be handled by different people . |
| 11 | Simply removing this stress can , in many instances , restore an individual to normal function without any other therapy being required . |
| 12 | The determining factor in rallying some francophone countries ' previously hesitant support for this hardline Nigerian approach , according to observers , had been the US State Department 's decision to withdraw the US ambassador to Burkina after a strong protest at that country 's alleged military aid to Taylor . |
| 13 | Regarding paragraph nine Chairman , no doubt you , you would tell us if there 's been a response on this , because this does seem a useless step forward er , to increase the number of people at the coalface as it were , and self-financing , and no doubt we shall hear in due course about this . |
| 14 | ( We must return in due course to this argument that women are cooperative conversationalists , which has been quite influential in feminist linguistics . ) |
| 15 | Finally , Grandpère dom Engels quite misses the point that my ironical description of these remorselessly improving adverts as ‘ quaintly old-fashioned ’ refers to their depressingly dated feel rather than to any seductive aura of nostalgia . |
| 16 | It is therefore still important to examine the role of Ac-ASA in any in vitro experiment desiend to test the mechanism of action of 5-ASA and to bear in mind the differential absorption of these drugs when an intact cell system is used . |
| 17 | There are also powerful and persuasive attempts to analyse the origin and fabrication of racism itself , contesting the assumption that it is an inevitable , permanent , and eternal part of all social landscapes . |
| 18 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 19 | But not , as the blinkered writer of that article implied , necessarily her own independent choice . |
| 20 | The actual payment at time of writing is between £1.50 and £1.70 per hour per child , but with a possible reduction for any second and subsequent child . |
| 21 | Possibly one reason for the author 's attitude was his ignorance of the geography of the country ; a striking instance of this is his statement that in 1461 the earl of March , whom he had rightly described as being in Wales , arrived in England having enjoyed a prosperous voyage and favoured by the west wind ( 14 , p.532 ) . |
| 22 | For the moment , we would point out that traditional theories of law , such as positivism , are characterised by a lack of concern for such perspectives , tending to regard law as both a static and isolated social phenomenon ; and insofar as they consider political struggle at all , they regard it as merely a struggle for the control of law as an ‘ instrument ’ . |
| 23 | Though the proportion of such people on the Sussex Downs and coastal plain looks small by comparison , in fact it varied greatly from one administrative division to another , reaching almost three-fifths in the Liberty of the archbishop of Canterbury where , as on many ecclesiastical estates , the condition of the people tended to backward-ness , with villeinage lingering on . |
| 24 | Each beat of a butterfly 's wing — each division of each and every cell — seen as a junction in a maze . ’ |
| 25 | But the problem is the lower level at that , i i i it 's at the N C O level where complaints are made by soldiers and because the complaint has to be made through the regiment , then the the pressure is for the soldier to withdraw his complaint . |
| 26 | This new hybrid benefit subsumes attendance allowance and mobility allowance and creates a new lower level for each ; this is in addition to the existing levels . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , earnings-related insurance , plus ‘ social aid ’ at a distinctly lower level for those not covered , continued prewar traditions . |
| 28 | It was time to take an interest in the wildlife at a lower level in this spectacular valley . |
| 29 | Although the tendency for a , substantial share of the self-employed to classify themselves as " managers " ( see Creigh et al , 1986 ) reduces the meaningfulness of occupation analysis , the general picture is one of a higher share of self-employment amongst temporary workers who could be viewed as " professionals " and a much lower level amongst those in low grade white collar jobs . |
| 30 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |