Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 2 | She wondered where that submarine was now and what it was called . |
| 3 | The monetarist assumption is that the velocity of circulation of broad money is more or less constant . |
| 4 | 1600 , average tilled acreage was less than 10 , compared with about 15 in Sussex . |
| 5 | If that car was there and |
| 6 | Britain , Sweden and West Germany are each giving around £100 million ; Canada , Japan , Kuwait and the EEC have ensured that total aid is more than £400 million . |
| 7 | The safe breaking distance for vehicles at that speed is more than 300ft . |
| 8 | They have not appreciated that Brian Way in advocating so many exercises in direct experience was desperately and effectively fighting a battle against second-hand learning which characterises so much of our traditional ‘ empty pitcher ’ view of education . |
| 9 | But this change was chiefly because her international exposure was making her more sophisticated . |
| 10 | This link is deliberately or unwittingly overlooked , as is the more serious and general issue of the making of rapists into exciting anti-heros and stars by the press . |
| 11 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 12 | If your weekly income is below or near the figure shown in the green box then apply immediately for your Poll Tax Benefit . |
| 13 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |
| 14 | This hope was fearfully and wonderfully fulfilled . |
| 15 | We are now in a position to re-formulate our criteria for deciding whether an anomalous sentence is semantically or grammatically deviant : |
| 16 | The problems with this assessment are briefly and clearly discussed in Brian Hebblethwaite 's The Problems of Theology , chapter 2 : ‘ Theology and Comparative Religion ’ . |
| 17 | Over the next six weeks this decision was gradually and ineluctably reversed . |
| 18 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |
| 19 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 20 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 21 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 22 | This Brigade is probably if not the only conservative one , one of a tiny number in the country , that do n't computerize their information systems for fire safety . |
| 23 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 24 | This lineage is morphologically and phenotypically similar to those observed immediately adjacent to other chronic gastrointestinal ulcers , for example in peptic ulcer and Crohns ' disease . |
| 25 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 26 | Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport |
| 27 | So the English village is neither as immemorial nor as unchanging as it is conventionally believed to be . |
| 28 | The Parliamentary Assembly and the Economic and Social Committee were primarily or wholly advisory in nature , with very little checking power , while the Court of Justice could interpret the provisions of the treaty and the decisions of the EEC . |
| 29 | Lo and behold , when I got to court , this old lady was there and I felt so ashamed and so sorry for her . |
| 30 | This fall is largely because of the high growth rates of GDP in the mid-to late 1980s . |