Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conflicts of interest are particularly likely to arise in firms that are companies because , even if there is functional segregation within a company with different activities being carried out in different departments between which there are Chinese walls , the knowledge of one part of the company will be attributed to ( ie treated in law as known to ) all parts . |
| 32 | The best intentions and the wisest council are likely to misfire if entrusted to the care of the machinery of state action . |
| 33 | , a lot of people are not honest , to be non-productive at work as opposed to actually off work . |
| 34 | Water is ill at ease when situated higher than the surrounding ground , almost as if it is impatient to tumble to a lower area . |
| 35 | It is not uncommon for people when telling stories about themselves to stress how frightened they were by some experience . |
| 36 | If the bad image of the pawnbroker kept would-be customers away , many of the small debtors would have been even more reluctant to seek relief from the grander money-lender whose role was not so much , it seems , to relieve the impoverished of misery as to maintain the well-off in their excesses . |
| 37 | Ea RNA was not present in brain as expected , while a low level was present in liver , corresponding to the presence of Kupfer cells ( data not shown ) . |
| 38 | The indices of skull breakage ( Table 3.5 ) , and tooth loss ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , show that the damage to the skull , and in particular the percentage incisor loss , is usually at least twice as great in maxillae as opposed to mandibles . |
| 39 | This was confirmed by the unchanged level of cell surface expression of the E complex in transgenics as compared to BALB/c controls ( data not shown , ( 47 ) ) . |
| 40 | Unfortunately , detailed evidence for the nature of these connections is limited , so it remains impossible to estimate how many of the inhabitants were involved in farming as opposed to other occupations . |
| 41 | purchaser is seeking to take account of areas of potential expenditure after acquisition for events occurring prior to acquisition as identified by the purchaser 's due diligence or from other sources . |
| 42 | Perhaps therefore Edward 's claim was not as strong in principle as has sometimes been suggested , and if accepted in 1328 it might eventually have been subject to challenge by sons born to other Capetian females . |
| 43 | Hetherington ( 1979 ) found that if marital separation led to a cessation of hostilities and conflict , this seemed somewhat less damaging for children than remaining in a discordant , unhappy , but intact home . |
| 44 | Nevertheless , certain features of the gaol I saw seemed to reveal something more fundamental about imprisonment than did the state of the drains or other physical conditions , which may vary widely between institutions or , indeed , in the same institution over time . |
| 45 | He refused to consecrate new bishops independent of Rome as demanded by the Chinese authorities from April 1958 , and was arrested . |
| 46 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 47 | Once again the newspaper cartoon was a favourite Iraqi medium for attacking the opposition , although in the US and other Western countries an independent press was more concerned with circulation than serving any political or military purpose . |
| 48 | Now you are stronger , wiser and finer in every way — more concerned with doing than dreaming and no longer a people-pleaser . |
| 49 | Processed hope are n't cheaper but brewers are more concerned with quality than shaving the price of a pint . ’ |
| 50 | Liberal protests notwithstanding , it had been announced in 1870 that the pope , speaking ex cathedra , is gifted with infallibility when defining doctrines to do with faith and morals . |
| 51 | Section 13(4) removes ‘ conspiracy to injure ’ from the field of trade disputes because it involves an action which would not be actionable in tort if done without agreement or combination . |
| 52 | The scope of ‘ unlawful means ’ conspiracy is also restricted by the requirement that the act should be one which would be actionable in tort if done by one person . |
| 53 | Even outside a nuclear weapon it is a highly dangerous substance — fatal to humans if ingested in even minute quantities . |
| 54 | At this stage in his life , this was as important to Nicholson as searching for the character he was playing . |
| 55 | Though the principles of representative government are important to pluralists as embodying equal rights to vote , express opinion and associate with like-minded people for political ends , the individual citizen of a democracy needs to be able to join with others before an interest can be effectively mobilized . |
| 56 | Avoiding the crossing of a busy road , climbing a steep hill , or passing the shops can be much more important to parents than having to walk an extra few hundred yards . |
| 57 | Surveys have shown that smokers of more than 20 cigarettes a day have twice as much time off work due to illness as do non-smokers [ 2 ] . |
| 58 | At the diplomatic level , where the democracy movement of the last decade had always been belittled in the foreign embassy briefings , the delay in normalising relations with post-massacre Beijing was less due to disapproval than to doubt as to the future stability of the regime . |
| 59 | Planted up with sun-loving , drought-tolerant plants such as sedum and houseleek , here it has been used to effect when laid on the gravelly shore of a small pond . |
| 60 | Accessing information would be improved by showing the file location in the index , and making secondary copies available for issue if required . |