Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1914 workers suffered from employers ' determination and ability ( in a situation of a plentiful labour supply ) to maintain low money wages regardless of the costs in terms of low productivity and slow adaptation to new technological possibilities . |
| 2 | Bartell picks up where Rothko left off , painting rhythmic undulating wave patterns exclusively in red tempera and oil — ‘ the most ambiguous of all the colours ’ — infiltrated by a blackish smoky violet . |
| 3 | For years Caleb conducted his failed building business entirely for the benefit of his assignees , |
| 4 | Using this technique these workers reported a right field advantage both with unilateral and with bilateral word presentation and attributed their results to " greater transmission fidelity and/or lesser transmission time of the shorter pathway to the left , verbal , hemisphere ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ) . |
| 5 | This old Methodist Church hall is an impressive building with a red and mellow brick facade standing in this pleasant side road close to the heart of Oxford and within easy walking distance of the city centre University and Polytechnic . |
| 6 | The Hotel Seinduin is positioned in a pleasant side street directly behind the seafront and near to the main boulevard of Scheveningen . |
| 7 | The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it . |
| 8 | Another variation on repetitious dieting involves having a liquid protein drink instead of a meal . |
| 9 | They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house . |
| 10 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 11 | First , there are technologies using a range of sensors on board satellites and manned aircraft , which allow the precise location and identification of targets and the identification and tracking , in real time , of mobile enemy forces deep within their own territory . |
| 12 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 13 | Such consultancies were seen as being prestigious in the eyes of candidates , having a wider field from which to chose , an extensive research resource immediately to hand , and the largest data banks . |
| 14 | There is a shop full of wines and souvenirs , and a pleasant picnic spot together with the site of the ‘ Piltdown Man ’ find . |
| 15 | These results harmonise remarkably well and suggest that treatment of patients aged between 60 and 80 with systolic blood pressure persistently above 160 mm Hg will prevent 30–50% of strokes in these patients . |
| 16 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 17 | They arrive at the empty basement flat just after one . |
| 18 | Duclos rattled the empty champagne bottle impatiently against the table-top as he picked them up . |
| 19 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 20 | But after the shouting there was nothing to do except drive away , even though there are empty RAF flats just across the road . |
| 21 | Needless to say , none of these systems were developed by historians or with the historical user community particularly in view . |
| 22 | THE Queen astonished British Rail passengers yesterday by catching an ordinary train for a goodwill visit to Oxfam . |
| 23 | The directors also propose to offer shareholders an enhanced scrip dividend together with a cash offer from BZW as an alternative to the final cash dividend . |
| 24 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 25 | It was invoked against Henry IV of Germany by the Saxons and the southern dukes ; and it was to be invoked against the English King John long after our period closed . |
| 26 | It comes from an old cottage garden just round where I . |
| 27 | It had tiny windows like a prison , and a high brick wall all round it . |
| 28 | Despite a rising Unix base , he is facing flat membership of 6,500 souls and 69 corporate sponsors and a clear lack of enthusiasm for the old user group even among the diehards . |
| 29 | Many factors are at work : physique , training , careful preparation months before in the Vuelta d'Espana or the Giro d'Italia ( rarely both ) , self-knowledge , confidence , the constant assistance of domestiques and then more distinguished teammates . |
| 30 | The Consumers ' Association said devaluation of the pound had brought British car prices roughly into line with the rest of the EC . |