Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 2 | — GLENDALE Social Club doorman Brian Smith well known for his ghosthunting activities is also an expert gardener and is offering his services to disabled people and pensioners in Houghton , who are unable to do their own gardening . |
| 3 | For this reason , the term non-stoichiometric solid is often preferred . |
| 4 | Progressive literature is consistently upheld by Nizan as a process of disclosure centred on reality , Marxism and realism , and designed to advocate the justifiable demands of an aspiring class . |
| 5 | To summarize the total award is thus made up in this way there are agreed items as shown on the er schedule of the plaintiff 's submissions which come to three hundred and fifty two thousand , five hundred and ninety six pounds , |
| 6 | There is a very slight rise in death-rate in those who are mildly overweight , grade 1 , and also in those who are underweight , grade-1. but this low rise is so small as to be insignificant . |
| 7 | There is a peculiar appropriateness , especially to readers of today , in the use of the Glasgow grocer to reconcile the mixture of Ruritanian romance and political forecast in this late Buchan thriller , whose emotional direction is never entirely clear . |
| 8 | If interactionism was the leftist response to the inadequacies and failures of positivism , the new deterrence writers represent much more the response of the right ( although neither category is ideologically homogeneous ) . |
| 9 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 10 | The sophisms and mystifications of an oppressive class are dispelled , social injustices and inequalities are exposed , and an appeal to enter directly into the tragic political struggle is implicitly issued . |
| 11 | All you will ever need to know about each variety is there : history ; scientific properties ; handling advice ; and translations of the fruit 's name into French . |
| 12 | I would add that camp is oft en also a turning of the second set of categories — theatricality , irony , and a sense of the absurdity of extreme feeling — onto the first , such that the latter — authenticity , intensity , the fierce assertion of extreme feeling — if they remain at all , do so in a transformed state . |
| 13 | Treaty , which is raised by the applicants in the main proceedings in Case C 221/89 , that provision is merely an expression , specific to the agricultural sector , of the general principle of equality . |
| 14 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 15 | That finding is certainly borne out in the United Kingdom , where the shift to a less progressive tax structure has been even more evident than in the United States ( Hills , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | The cost of developing new innovative products is extremely high ; companies must be able to defray the high front-end cost associated with translating inventions into commercially successful products by marketing them as widely as possible around the world . |
| 17 | Mainstream elitism is now represented by writers such as Keller and Aron , as we discussed earlier ; this refers mainly to the interactions and functions of ruling and strategic elites , and though it differs in emphasis from earlier writings , these writers appear to have normative assumptions not radically removed from those of the classical elite theorists . |
| 18 | Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future . |
| 19 | This is why economic income is sometimes called permanent income , and it is also why economic earnings and dividends are equivalent . |
| 20 | To impose a common curriculum is one thing ; to enforce the testing of children in this curriculum at specific ages is quite another . |
| 21 | All hon. Members are consumed by analysing how much money has been spent and whether more money will be made available for particular services , but we do not spend anything like enough time considering whether that money is well spent . |
| 22 | Erm now if you lose one of those people cos we we put a lot of emphasis on you know , high quality training , erm then that money is just wasted . |
| 23 | Her behaviour might have been questionable , but that money is now yours . |
| 24 | We have already suggested that theories of motivation seem to indicate that money is only one of many factors that have a bearing upon motivation and morale . |
| 25 | These Rules may be disapplied by agreement in the case of non-private investors but where they apply they require that money is only held with certain approved banks and that the money in the account is , to the bank 's knowledge , a trust fund . |
| 26 | The oral shield is slightly pentagonal with an acute proximal angle and a slightly convex distal edge . |
| 27 | The oral shield is slightly arrow shaped with an obtuse proximal angle and with a slight projection of the distal edge ; the distal part of the plate is distinctly swollen in most specimens but in some the plate is flat . |
| 28 | The oral shield is approximately rhombic sometimes with the distal edge slightly produced . |
| 29 | The oral shield is approximately rounded triangular , often with an acute proximal angle and a distal projection . |
| 30 | The oral shield is approximately rhombic with the centre of the plate slightly depressed . |