Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ?
2 I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable .
3 Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is a branch of Computer Science that is concerned with making computers more intelligent and by this process more flexible in the types of problems that they can solve .
4 ( They may also have generated some demands by spreading the word about regimes and rules in the Northern Ireland prison system , which are in several respects more liberal than in England . )
5 The girls respected her because she had nerve and a good front of confidence , and because she possessed a very smart line in jerseys and fancy stockings , and wore shoes so fashionable that to the untrained eye they looked positively orthopaedic .
6 She can write lines so strong as to be almost terrifying …
7 Nowhere are such tensions more evident than in Berlin .
8 Patience rewarded Nowhere are Yorkshire 's technical shortcomings more recognisable than with Sharp , recalled after three centuries in the second team .
9 For example , the objective ‘ make up a bed , according to standard procedure ’ draws on general standards in that waterproof pillow-covers and light bedding would be required , and local standards for bed making , whether that means a ‘ general tucking-in all round ’ or ‘ all corners perfectly rectangular and with the top sheet turned over 32.5 cms ’ .
10 Iain had been telling us how ten to fifteen thousand years ago early man had crossed from Mongolia to Alaska by way of the Aleutian chain of volcanic islands and then , over a period of some five millennia , had worked his way down through North and South America until finally he had reached Tierra del Fuego , living out the winters virtually naked except for the natural hair of his body .
11 In order to elucidate the manner in which Oct-1 acts , we co-transfected the HPV 16 octamer and adjacent NF1 site cloned in pBL 2 CAT into BHK cells with expression vectors containing different forms of NFI either alone or in combination with the Oct-1 expression vector .
12 Most originate in the US where they may find the regulatory authorities more amenable than in Europe .
13 ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination .
14 The reason they have not been put into wide scale use is their cost electrical power generation from current photovoltaic devices is still 10 times more expensive than from more conventional sources .
15 That sensitivity rises when they are ovulating , becoming up to 10,000 times more acute than at menstruation .
16 I would say it is five times more difficult than at any other time of the year . ’
17 In the uplands , remembrement is three times more costly than in the lowlands .
18 Maser emission from active galactic nuclei is typically 10 5 times more luminous than in our galaxy , and the active galaxies concerned always exhibit radio or optical jets ejected from the nuclei .
19 Lalith Athulathmudali and G. N. Premachandra resigned in late August 1991 [ see pp. 38393 ; 38440 ] ; the departure of these UNP dissidents created the vacancies still unfilled as of end-September .
20 The results of behavioural surveys have been mixed , with the pattern of activities more varied than in traditional streets , but few residents encouraged to go out more .
21 Each party 's entitlement of seats should be proportionate to its share of the total constituency votes received by candidates of all parties , and it would be met by the award ( if necessary ) of a number of additional seats so calculated as to " redress the distorted results in the constituencies " .
22 The Trust also wishes to acknowledge the major contributions both financial and in kind made by the following organizations : We are also grateful to Mrs. Ayles of Cardiff castle and the many private individuals who have helped and assisted since the beginning of the project .
23 Elia Kazan , director of Arthur Miller 's stage plays and of many films as memorable as On The Waterfront , calculated more shrewdly .
24 At the simplest level they suggest that the three dimensional structure of the matrix and availability of ligands for cell binding may be important determinants of the hepatocyte 's response to matrix constituents either alone or in combination .
25 Secondly , Fender were prepared to compromise themselves to try to clobber Tokai by setting up Fender Japan ; Rickenbacker 's whole philosophy , on the other hand , is based upon never making guitars anywhere other than under their own roof .
26 The success was so great or the rivalry of the wealthy families so keen that during the next four years three more opera-houses were opened : the Teatro dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo , the San Moisè , and the Teatro Novissimo .
27 However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past .
28 By making the flow of information between people or machines more effective or by automating a production process ( for instance by making possible a computerised technique in a factory ) IT can increase the efficiency or simply the flexibility of many organisations .
29 We had covered large distances both on-road and off the road , totally independent of public transport .
30 Instead , cross at lights whenever possible or at a clear stretch of road where there is good visibility , rather than at a corner .
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