Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both pieces of research stress how little time is spent with adults and how much time is spent either teaching or in fragmented and relatively trivial administration at the expense of creating effective personal relationships and articulating a sense of common purpose . |
| 2 | They did not treat it as equivalent to either the other nonsense word or to more or less . |
| 3 | Issuers can choose a public offer for sale , either at a fixed price or by tender or alternatively they can opt to issue bonds by means of a placing . |
| 4 | British people realize that for better or worse their destiny is inextricably intertwined with that of the U.S. even though some of them may be reluctant to admit it . |
| 5 | By focusing attention , albeit in negative and often hostile fashion , on that issue , the radical Hegelians placed on the agenda what was to become an urgent matter in later generations . |
| 6 | The implications are , firstly , that civil society at whatever scale ( the ‘ community ’ scale as represented by Castells 's studies or the scale of the home as represented by Pahl and Saunders ) is for many people a setting within which a degree of identity can indeed emerge , albeit in complex and highly diverse ways . |
| 7 | In a recent account of these groups of mammalian predator Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) concluded that the damage to the bone of their small mammal prey was so severe that except in rare and easily recognizable cases they could not be significant agents in the accumulation of small mammal remains . |
| 8 | Laidlaw 's raid , however , had other repercussions , for the Japanese built more extensive defences around Dili and manned them day and night ; a use of men and resources that in eight or so weeks would be desperately needed on Guadalcanal , or later that year in defences against other Allied landings . |
| 9 | Overall , by 1900 central government action concerning recognized social problems was greater than in 1870 but still slight in contrast with the magnitude of those problems and of the range of demands for action . |
| 10 | And then in this range , X will be greater than minus three but less than four . |
| 11 | Neither do they support the view that mortality in late life is due to the body ‘ wearing out ‘ , as Fries asserts , rather than to specific and clinically identifiable disease states . |
| 12 | Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area . |
| 13 | So do I divide that by five and then times it by ten ? |
| 14 | Viewed together , they showed that by 1920 or so every single female in the United States would have to work as a switchboard operator . |
| 15 | A third should be added : that men 's wages were invariably higher than women 's , even if for similar or even identical work . |
| 16 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 17 | As described in more detail in Chapters 5 and 6 , the latter results from the growth in employment in public-sector services in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less unionized labour such as married women ( Fothergill and Gudgin , 1982 ; Massey , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | It took radical change in teaching method , requiring greater use of an organized collection of resource materials , to point up the need for a greater degree of professionalism and for larger and more ambitious organizations . |
| 19 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 20 | These results are consistent with scintigraphic evidence of a delay in oesophageal transit of a radiolabelled liquid meal in PSS patients with impaired peristalsis and of fewer but more prolonged episodes of postprandial reflux when PSS patients were compared with those with normal peristalsis and equally severe oesophagitis . |
| 21 | Admitting that it was ‘ impossible to ignore the fact ’ that the defendant was ‘ in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try ’ and was acknowledged to be ‘ a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life ’ , he took Gandhi gravely to task for his failure to anticipate that violence would be the ‘ inevitable consequence ’ of his acts . |
| 22 | Cos like that and then there was the , like a like a barrel thing |
| 23 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 24 | You know like this and like that and like |
| 25 | If you marked two , the chances are definitely increasing , and with three or more it is well worth considering a change of diet to see if this helps . |
| 26 | He restored and augmented the collegiate church of Crediton and founded another college at Glasney , near Penryn ; and in 1268 and again in 1275 he undertook the revision and amendment of the statutes of his cathedral church . |
| 27 | Some of the highest property prices anywhere are in fume-ridden Manhattan and in cleaner but nevertheless congested central Tokyo . |
| 28 | The tsar was prepared , on occasion , to reproach German nobles for allowing the condition of the Estonian and Latvian peasantry to deteriorate , and in educational and especially religious affairs he sanctioned attempts to bring the Baltic provinces into line with the rest of the empire . |
| 29 | In 1303 he accompanied Edward I to Scotland and in 1305 and again in 1307 was appointed a justice of one of the trailbaston circuits . |
| 30 | On the other side , and to left and right , loomed the darkness of fresh tunnels . |