Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stock items otherwise identified as being technically or commercially obsolete by reference to expected sales in the next twelve months . |
| 2 | These last two forms of cancer are now considered by experts to be in the category ‘ diseases for which the excess mortality in smokers may be partly or wholly attributable to smoking ’ . |
| 3 | The Parliamentary Assembly and the Economic and Social Committee were primarily or wholly advisory in nature , with very little checking power , while the Court of Justice could interpret the provisions of the treaty and the decisions of the EEC . |
| 4 | Goff thought none looked fully relaxed or wholly free of shyness or worry , even though it was really Minton , who played the grand seigneur , who was racked by doubts , anxieties and self-pity . |
| 5 | We must therefore confront the empirical problem of separating out classical from Keynesian influences in order to answer a very simple question : is the unemployment which is observed in a particular economy over a given period of time predominantly classical or predominantly Keynesian in origin ? |
| 6 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
| 7 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 8 | : where the users of a system are likely to be casual or perhaps untrained in keyboard skills ( a situation that is becoming increasingly more commonplace ) , the use of speech or handwriting may be more appropriate than typed input ; |
| 9 | Psychics describe the aura as a rainbow emanation radiating half a metre or more around the body , more or less ovoid in shape . |
| 10 | More or less equal to Spurgeon in fame , and surpassing him in notoriety ( for Spurgeon avoided party politics and was in many ways sui generis ) was the Congregationalist , Joseph Parker . |
| 11 | The parishes were more or less equal in area , around 4000 acres ; their layout says a great deal for the Saxon ability to recognise and exploit soil features and for their respect for mutual rights of neighbouring communities . |
| 12 | This old variety , which was introduced towards the end of the last century , more or less disappeared from cultivation . |
| 13 | Batsford 's most recent financial results , for the year to end-December 1991 , show turnover more or less static at £4.7m but a loss of £60,000 , down significantly from £218.000 in 1990 , a reduction due in part to lower costs and borrowings . |
| 14 | These studies independently suggested that , irrespective of whether a company is more or less integrated in structure , different levels of the organization have distinct roles in investment decision-making . |
| 15 | After being held more or less fixed for years , spending on public works is to rise by 5% . |
| 16 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 17 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 18 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 19 | The playing-time was almost exactly two minutes , and such ‘ two-minute cylinders ’ became standard for commercial prerecorded fare , while 100rpm remained more or less standard for dictation cylinders and privately-made cylinders recorded in the home . |
| 20 | They all more or less agreed above undercurrents of mutual ill-will that it was time to be hit by the brutish cold again . |
| 21 | A torrente is a river which usually flows only after rain or the melting of the snows ; most of the rivers that descend from the Apennines towards the Po and the Adriatic are torrenti , more or less dry in summer except for an occasional pool where you could swim in those far-off days without much danger to your health . |
| 22 | As several million years are required for the transfer of a significant amount of heat to the surface of continental lithosphere , it has been suggested that hot spots are most likely to develop where the lithosphere is more or less stationary with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies as this would allow time for sustained heating to occur . |
| 23 | The whole enterprise of Indirect Rule became more organized , more standardized — the native administrations of Tanganyika , a country of considerable ethnic diversity , were by the end of Cameron 's governorship more or less uniform in structure — and more active in intention . |
| 24 | With a few exceptions along the coast ( such as Seaford in the 1770s ) it proved more or less impossible in Sussex where the land was largely enclosed already and the soil of much of the county ill-suited to highly profitable wheat farming ; so there was little of the trauma produced elsewhere by the restructuring of the rural landscape . |
| 25 | An estate is a portion of the ownership of the land , more or less limited in time . |
| 26 | Erm the County Council believes that its position is i is more or less correct in terms of the balances that |
| 27 | Many compounds , more or less related to morphine , have been prepared and tested , and a substantial list of alternative drugs provides possible substitutes with merits for particular purposes . |
| 28 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |
| 29 | I spun round , threw myself down , and rolled over — rolling , as it happened , off the track into a ditch , more or less marked by tussocks of coarse grass . |
| 30 | It was at its thickest in Mussallamiyah Bay , where a layer of oil six inches deep was more or less trapped by booms and sand barriers . |