Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 2 | Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ? |
| 3 | Coupled with the Phantom 's one-piece maple neck , with the same radius as the Teardrop and a low action with wide string spacing , the feel is comfortable and friendly right up the neck , and barre chords above the twelfth fret are no trouble at all . |
| 4 | ‘ So you remained friendly right through the war , did you ? ’ |
| 5 | The basal conglomerate in England is full of boulders of a distinctive purple , " liver-coloured " and white quartzites that have been matched with the Gres de May and the Gres Armoricain right across the other side of the English Channel in Brittany ( though I regard with some scepticism the notion that the boulders here travelled so far ) . |
| 6 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 7 | This finding suggests , that high infant mortality of first order births in populations characterized by early marriage may be attributable mostly to the very young age of mothers at first birth . |
| 8 | A striking feature of these statistics is the high proportion of youth unemployment , due mostly to the decline in job opportunities for young people during the recession . |
| 9 | The project will comprise a review of pertinent research findings--notably from the study of small businesses , urban geography and regional economics--together with an investigation of specific practical initiatives in the area of local business development . |
| 10 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 11 | The Act provides that there is no liability under this head for damage which is due wholly to the fault of the person suffering it and that contributory negligence is a partial defence . |
| 12 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 13 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 14 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 15 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 16 | He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file . |
| 17 | Once , a bat whirred inside his chamber , invisible and apprehensible only from the eerie displacement of the air , the frenzy of wings on a high note . |
| 18 | Keeping in touch with this flow , as well as the hundred-odd pages of daily transcript , was a job practicable only for the zealots like Brian Rome or the massed ranks of the CEGB staff . |
| 19 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 20 | This was due entirely to the ferocious efforts of Gloucester , no lovers of Bath , whose idea of a welcome last month was to treat their visitors rather like a doormat . |
| 21 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 22 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 23 | Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry . |
| 24 | This massive loss of forest is by no means due entirely to the timber industry , there being other contributory factors such as conversion of land for urbanisation , agriculture , and increase in domestic animals associated with human populations . |
| 25 | This was ‘ due entirely to the schoolmasters who will not permit that children in their schools use any but the proper names ’ . |
| 26 | Erm , would the er spokesman not agree that there is a crisis in secure accommodation in Leicestershire at the moment due entirely to the stance of the Labour and Liberal parties on this authority . |
| 27 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 28 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 29 | Two right so on the bottom now we 've just got one times one which is one and on the top we 've got one times twelve times two what does that come to ? |
| 30 | because we have done everything we should of done , we 've defended the right all over the world , we went to the Falklands , we , we defended the right in it |