Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BUSINESS which began in a New York loft 35 years ago opened its European headquarters yesterday on the day Clwyd 's Euro-Week began . |
| 2 | Historic aircraft also on show at Weybridge centre |
| 3 | A ‘ very high proportion ’ even of the detailed wording of this 1937 text remains in the published version.i Much of The Silmarillion , then , could be seen as chronologically pre- Hobbit , while the Unfinished Tales ( though much more varied in date and nature ) at least contain a good deal of material whose composition preceded the appearance of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 4 | How successfully the leopard has adapted to a wide range of habitat may be judged from the fact that there are twenty-four different subspecies all of which differ only slightly in colouring or body size and shape . |
| 5 | What is often lacking , however , in sociological research is a concerted effort to examine social data functionally in order to discover significant , rather than merely self-evident , correlations between different patterns of belief and behaviour . |
| 6 | In April two Saudi-flag tankers , one the ULCC Safina al-Arab , appear to have been caught quite separately by Iraqi aircraft close to Kharg . |
| 7 | The relatedness of fetal mortality to birth intervals is widely discussed in the relevant literature but , due perhaps to lack of reliable data even from developed countries , without resolution . |
| 8 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |
| 9 | 2.1 The first is the move to comprehensive schools in the fifties and sixties , which broadened the ability range of the learners facing language teachers in schools , from the top 30% perhaps in the days of the grammar school to virtually all pupils in the first two years of secondary school today . |
| 10 | Shall we just say that a checkerboard solution is unjust by definition because it treats different people differently for no good reason , and justice requires treating like cases alike ? |
| 11 | I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks . |
| 12 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 13 | The Majority , having less faith in the virtues of economic planning , saw public works only as emergency measures in times of crisis . |
| 14 | Apple pie order : check stored fruit regularly for signs of rot . |
| 15 | Leaving potatoes unpeeled and providing fresh fruit instead of fat- and sugar-rich puddings is a great time-saver . |
| 16 | Fresh fruit afterwards with cheese . |
| 17 | Their Holden Racing Team ( HRT ) Commodore V8 , which the pundits claimed was dated and slow , outlasted a pack of Ford Sierras and a Nissan Skyline GT-R to take the flag a mere 15sec ahead of Paul Radisich and Jeff Allam , driving Dick Johnson 's second Shell Sierra Cosworth . |
| 18 | You may be able to solve the problem by introducing one or more Regal Tangs to give some sense of security in numbers , but there is no guarantee of this and you may end up with three nervous fish instead of one . |
| 19 | There were no metal tools — only stone , wood and bone were used ; there was no written language and thus recording of land rights and rules for their disposal ; there were no cereal crops , and limited means only of storing foodstuffs ; and so on . |
| 20 | We had known these simple people only since the previous day , they had no proof that I too was not an enemy , but their action was typical of the whole attitude of the German people . |
| 21 | And I find it somehow very encouraging that television can present us with real people instead of the usual cyphers and still strike such deep and resonant chords in so many . |
| 22 | When d' you meet any real people apart from those limousine sharks and cordless telephone freaks who never met an ordinary person , do n't know any ordinary people : how they live , we live , nor how we die , I mean how they die . ’ |
| 23 | Many of the largest TNCs have assets and annual sales far in excess of the GNP of about half of the countries of the world . |
| 24 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
| 25 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 26 | At that time no scientific software was available for the Altos , which ran on SCO-Xenix 3.4 — a Unix dialect — and the system was used by administrative , scientific and horticultural staff mainly for word processing , and for accounts management . |
| 27 | The crucial move is to insist that every individual works basically in the same law-like way , with individual variations depending on systematic differences in , for instance , preferences and information , or , more broadly , nature and nurture . |
| 28 | PORTAFERRY is featured in the first of the six-part series Once Upon A Place ( UTV , 7.00pm ) in which local people tell the story of their own area . |
| 29 | Nance Rashleigh ripped out entrails and flung the gutted fish accurately into a barrel four feet away . |
| 30 | Conrad 's first manoeuvre was to send massed cavalry forward on 15 August to reconnoitre on a huge front , some 400km/ 250mls wide . |