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

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1 Moreover , this lower level of spending is still sufficient to give us the flexibility to take up opportunities in new areas .
2 Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English .
3 That sectoral spatial division of labour is no longer dominant in the UK .
4 One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries .
5 But if the total variety of creatures is so great and the
6 For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) .
7 Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes .
8 Acute exposure to NSAIDs is also known to stimulate gastric acid secretion , which , at least in theory , should increase the prevalence of gastric metaplasia .
9 But , it seems , that part of history is quickly forgotten too .
10 The nature of the implicit political ideology of criminals is well illustrated when we consider what happens when they become organised and powerful , as in the case of the Mafia in the United States , and the smaller-scale , localised organisations that have appeared in some of our cities .
11 The development of a specifically Croatian literature in Dalmatia is normally attributed to the high-born , Italian-educated Marko Marulić ( 1450–1524 ) from Split , although many of his predecessors and contemporaries spoke Croatian and were aware of the vernacular tradition .
12 The scaly skin of reptiles is ideally suited for development into sharply spiked armour .
13 That kind of symbolism is often used is n't it .
14 That kind of self-censorship is very dispiriting .
15 The teacher cited in Walkerdine 's research , for example , said that ‘ coming out with that kind of expression is very natural .
16 I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right .
17 That kind of shock is really a sort of timidity . ’
18 My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead .
19 That kind of situation , Dr is entirely right to say to the general assembly , that kind of situation is utterly unforgivable , it 's utterly unforgivable .
20 The er , that kind of thing is never published , and or even , of course , it ca n't be published normally , and the result is that when analysts draw conclusions based on this very confidential data , or who were talking vastly extent .
21 That kind of information is always useful in my business .
22 Even broken up , each piece of IBM is as big as most companies on the outside .
23 Each piece of paper is then worked separately in the darkroom .
24 The first , emphasised in the traditional readings of , say , Schopenhauer and Regan , is that kindness to animals is only of value as a psychological cause of human fellow-feeling .
25 IBM engineers in Europe claim that the company 's European research on satellites is ahead of its US counterpart .
26 This obiquitous parasite of donkeys is rarely associated with signs of clinical disease .
27 The total weight of 165.4lb is also equivalent to most four-speed 'boxes .
28 Again , this I have n't got an example to show you but I have seen one of these that 's caught fire and the only reason it 's caught fire is because this total piece of equipment is only capable of taking a maximum of thirteen amps .
29 I think the way in which they organize that side of things is quite brilliant .
30 The dose response curve for the trophic effect of gastrin is best described by a quadratic function with a maximal effect of gastrin at a plasma concentration in the range 200–500 pmol/l .
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