Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question asked by a number of would-be high-bay constructors was whether insurers and legislators ( both in central and local government ) were overemphasizing the dangers of fire in high-bay warehouses and also whether they really understood the significant differences existing between different classifications of system . |
| 2 | Of these , only the first was part of PNP and it proved to be the most problematic , partly for administrative reasons and partly because of the delicacy of the issues of culture and status which it raised . |
| 3 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 4 | It is a rare sight nowadays , partly because otters are such shy animals and partly because they are much scarcer than hitherto . |
| 5 | Enough grain is produced to provide everyone with ample protein and more than 3,000 calories per day . |
| 6 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 7 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
| 8 | When using very light yarns and particularly if working on a Passap/Pfaff. it is a good idea to knit eight or ten centimetres of waste yarn first , as this gives a little extra stability to the beginning of your skirt . |
| 9 | Communication is a social practice and even if systematic distortion is removed , existential determination is not . |
| 10 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 11 | So is n't it good for us rather than quibbling , rather than criticizing , and recognizing that we 've all got different abilities and perhaps if you had n't got one of those abilities there , the , the body that it speaks about , you see every part plays a part does n't it on our physical body and so we are in accommodation , we all have a part to play , and that 's the way we , we grow you see and we mature and we become better , able , equipped to go out and tell others , gives us confidence as well if we know what we 're talking about , that way we can learn , so never quibble about assignments and arrangements , never criticize brothers and sisters in the congregation . |
| 12 | Every goalkicker hits a periodic trough and more than once over the last 12 months ‘ Noddy ’ has been within one unsuccessful kick of handing over to the New South Wales fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 13 | But elsewhere the situation is far less clear , partly for lack of detailed evidence and partly because the boundary is not always precisely defined in archaeologically recognizable terms . |
| 14 | There was a continuing output of serious social investigation which had as its aim the accurate delineation of social problems and implicitly or explicitly to indicate solutions . |
| 15 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 16 | In its reserved judgement given on 12th March 1992 , the Court concluded that the Visitors acted in their capacity as Judges of the High Court and not as visitors in the usual sense and were thus not reviewable . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend reflect on the mirror image of those charges , when one looks at the Liberal Democrat and Labour party Front-Bench spokesmen to see how many come from Scottish constituencies and frequently and regularly speak on purely English matters ? |
| 18 | And Keynes was , after all , a Treasury man who believed in the value of fiscal control and more or less balanced budgets over the medium term . |
| 19 | Old Jack and so and so and so . |
| 20 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 21 | Stornoway Castle is almost hidden by a forest of ageing trees and maybe as well , for it is in a boarded up state just recently implemented . |
| 22 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 23 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 24 | It 'll be free housing and overtime before you can turn round . ’ |
| 25 | This may have been partly because iron hulls resisted the vibration of the early engines better than wooden ones and also because fouling was less of a problem with continuous speeds and shorter voyages . |
| 26 | The Germans have made it clear time and again that ‘ in the field of monetary policy the principle of subsidiarity does not apply ’ . |
| 27 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 28 | There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big . |
| 29 | Rates , however , represent a relatively small proportion of total costs for most companies , and rate rises tend to occur because of external inflationary effects and not because of local-government policies ( Midwinter , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Speaking to the Darlington Branch of the Dyslexia Institute Mr Fallon , the town 's MP , said : ‘ Dyslexia is now a widely recognised term and more and more information is available to help those who are dyslexic . ’ |