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Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	It would be , in fact , in the nature of a political decision and as such one which Civil Servants are accustomed to leave to their masters .
2	It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal .
3	In terms of funding , there 's going to have to be some political decision as to how we allocate those resources .
4	As in Belfast East it is possible that voters themselves , as well as party managers , may have strong opinions as to how their preferences should be expressed .
5	At that time Kiev was one of Russia 's greatest cities and within half a century had a great cathedral and hundreds of churches .
6	Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends .
7	Outside normal hours and at Belfast or Magee College contact the Security/Portering Staff .
8	Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute .
9	Therefore , the study of atk , in the context of its normal function and in the XLA phenotype , will provide important new information about the roles src protein tyrosine kinases play in cellular signalling .
10	There will be shock — usually the haemorrhage of tears , followed by temporary loss of normal function because of depression ; then , if all goes well , and the wound is ‘ nursed ’ with care and patience , it will finally heal , the severed edges uniting to produce a strong and healthy scar .
11	An emphasis on technical activities and on what is often , essentially , administration implicitly denies that staff are an asset .
12	The system was being increasingly undermined , however , both by the growing numbers of those holding Matai titles and by a reduction in the traditional structures through which the chiefs had exercised authority .
13	The sonnet stands not only as an account of some private instance but as a representative account of the pressures and inevitable containment of individuals by powerful forces outside their control .
14	He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey .
15	As Allan ( 1985 ) points out , contemporary attitudes to divorce are illustrated by the prevailing opinions as to the effect of divorce on children .
16	The film is as artificial as a Mozart opera or Goldoni play but behind the artifice lies a generous salute to love , life and theatrical illusion .
17	An understanding of these processes is of value to all those — for instance , politicians , trade unions , businesses — who wish to understand , forecast and influence economic developments and policy at either an aggregate level or at the level of individual markets .
18	Not money well spent , and reflects badly on the credibility of their political coverage and on market research as a whole .
19	Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’
20	We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing .
21	We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing .
22	HLCAs should be fixed at a slightly lower level than at present , e.g. 80% below present values in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ LFA .
23	The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 .
24	Peat believes the market has now stabilised although at a significantly lower level than before the Gulf crisis and recession in key economies .
25	In the French LFAs , subsidised loans are the more common incentive for capital developments ; capital grants are fixed at a lower level than in the UK and are related to the degree of handicap .
26	In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth .
27	PBL from the patient who did not produce toxoplasma antibodies did produce anti-HIV-1 antibodies , but at a much lower level than in other patients in this group ( HIV-1-specific ELISA index 1.85 ) .
28	Details of new or innovative products and of variances in European working practices , processes and technologies must also be examined .
29	In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom .
30	There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local .