Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
| 2 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 3 | Hence the insistence on ‘ ethnicity ’ and linguistic differences , each or both sometimes combined with religion . |
| 4 | Particularly striking exemplars are the penannular neck ornaments or torcs , the hoops of which were hollow or more often formed of twisted rods or finer wires , having loop terminals decorated by lost-wax casting combined with surface tooling ( fig. 19 ) . |
| 5 | For those alarmed , mystified or just inexplicably fascinated by the whys and wherefores of the Data Protection Act , the Data protection Registrar is holding a series of free one-day seminars on ‘ Understanding Data Protection ’ around the country in March . |
| 6 | Whether a particular level of credit payments should be seen as high or not obviously depends on the consumer 's income . |
| 7 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 8 | This and more already happens on satellite and cable channels , which are under the more lenient gaze of the Cable Authority . |
| 9 | The best way to clean gold is to use a specially formulated cleaner and then gently brush with the soft brush provided , to remove any grease or dirt . |
| 10 | Despite some very inhospitable weather , causing the cancellation of racing on five different occasions , the series , which started the previous November , proved popular and very well attended over the five months . |
| 11 | If it still happens , then try a smaller main hook , which will be lighter and more easily sucked into the barbel 's mouth . |
| 12 | If a major crisis occurred the United States might find itself sorely embarrassed and perhaps ultimately drawn into the affray . |
| 13 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 14 | Hooliganism is more habitual and more fully developed in Britain than elsewhere , but it is not confined to Britain . |
| 15 | It is unclear whether battery can be committed by omission , but it is certainly possible to convict of battery someone who accidentally causes the unlawful application of force to another and then intentionally desists from stopping that application of force . |
| 16 | However , together , these pavements are too few and too poorly recorded to be considered the diagnostic mosaics of this group . |
| 17 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 18 | His tread was firm , his aspect manly ; his voice was clear but rather high pitched for so splendid a body . |
| 19 | It is estimated with some reliability that one in five of those aged 85 and over now suffer from dementia ( Norman 1987a : 2 ) . |
| 20 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 21 | Indeed , it might be ventured that whenever there is the possibility we prefer to use this basis of organisation , probably because it is intrinsically more accessible and more firmly established as part of our mental " set " . |
| 22 | A consultative approach is therefore inherently more restricted and theoretically more committed concerning the relationship between knowledge sources in anaphor resolution . |
| 23 | The War Crimes Bill , which provided a legal framework for the prosecution of suspected war criminals and had been rejected by the House of Lords in June 1990 [ see p. 37889 ] , was reintroduced in March 1991 and again effectively rejected by the Lords on April 26 . |
| 24 | When you 've got documents that are printed in Times Roman and very nicely formatted in WordPerfect , a spreadsheet printed out in Courier shatters the illusion . |
| 25 | While such large molar masses are now taken for granted , it was difficult in 1920 to believe and accept that these values were real and not just caused by the aggregation of much smaller molecules . |
| 26 | Overhead electricity and telephone lines , although clearly visible and therefore easily assessed for their effect on a proposed development , may be overlooked . |
| 27 | Thirdly , as most of this century has produced a managerial literature based on a fervent belief in rationality and structure in organizations , power as a subject of investigation goes somewhat against the trend because it incorporates so much that is irrational , indefinable and not easily structured into neat manuals of best practice . |
| 28 | Rift Valley Cichlids and Marines live in huge areas of water which are very stable and not easily influenced by external changes . |
| 29 | Feral goats have inhibited the island of 150 square kilometres for at least 100 years , but unlike the exploding colonies of goats in some of the Galapagos Islands , the Aldabra goats have remained stable and perhaps even declined in recent years . |
| 30 | 736 and so firmly reiterated in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is by invoking the decision of the Court of Appeal in Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B . |