Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tech-Greens are probably breeding the right kind of people right at this minute . ’ |
| 2 | It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the level of interest is not backed up by the right level of knowledge either from prospective users or from many of the suppliers . |
| 4 | Although some of the worst fears of those who dislike the market mentality can be discarded there is no doubt that complete freedom of competition particularly in social care , will not work . |
| 5 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 6 | Furthermore , intervention programmes aiming to reduce the level of expressed emotion among relatives high on this index , or alternatively to reduce their level of face-to-face contact , have shown that relapse rates can be reduced in this way ( e.g. Leff et al. , 1982 ; 1985 ; Falloon et al. , 1982 ; and see chapter 9 ) . |
| 7 | The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law . |
| 8 | This , with the already established Course I , will continue to operate until it has reached due completion for students currently in training . |
| 9 | In Britain , where suspicion of the army as a possible instrument of tyranny together with a generally rising level of prosperity made recruits unusually hard to obtain , this element was prominent . |
| 10 | Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education . |
| 11 | By contrast , in Britain the pattern has been one of small disruptive strikes — often over job demarcation or manning levels — which have had serious long-term effects on output quality , delivery dates and labour costs , leading to a corrosive loss of markets both at home and abroad [ Phelps Brown , 1977 ] . |
| 12 | The FTSE index of the leading 100 companies opened down a marginal 1.1 at 2704.5 , with interest focused more closely on political uncertainty at home ahead of tonight 's Europe vote . |
| 13 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 14 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 15 | The declaration left open the possibility of bilateral aid , and the West German government subsequently pledged a loan package amounting to US$3,100 million in advance of the Gorbachev-Kohl summit on German reunification in Moscow later in July [ see pp. 37659-61 ] . |
| 16 | THE WORLD 'S most advanced prosthetic arm made its public debut in Glasgow yesterday at the Scottish Naidex'93 exhibition . |
| 17 | Mr Major has invited the French president to dinner tomorrow in a bid to win his support . |
| 18 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 19 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 20 | Indeed , the historical study of language together with contemporary stylistics , probably ought to feature in any such course . |
| 21 | THE CHIEF executive of National Car Parks was cleared at the Old Bailey in London yesterday of mounting a campaign of industrial espionage against his main rival , Europarks . |
| 22 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 23 | Unburden yourself , tell me all that has passed — and later we will speak with a clear mind of matters close to our hearts . ’ |
| 24 | As studies in many parts of the world show , the sexual satisfaction of both partners continues in a high proportion of cases long after the age of seventy and often well into the eighties . |
| 25 | What , more than anything else , distinguished towns of all sizes was a narrow £3 — £9 band which , with a relatively high proportion of assessments upwards of £10 , left something of a gap between , on the one hand , the upper tradesmen , and , on the other , artificers and labourers at 40s. or less ; the big £3 — £4 group at Bury suggests nonetheless either a strong contingent of master craftsmen or unusually well-to-do workmen . |
| 26 | Steve Mardenborough then broke through with a clear run on goal just before the whistle , but his control let him down and Adkins saved at his feet . |
| 27 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 28 | It was in this major area of economic policy that early on the civil administration exercised a high degree of autonomy even from the totalitarian party . |
| 29 | A not insignificant push was given to this development with the decline in morale among expatriate workers in the oil industry following the assassination of a senior oil-company secondee near Ahwaz late in 1978 . |
| 30 | Even so , Hotspur held his hand until the issue was certain , and the thundering vanguard of cavalry well within range , and plainly bent on driving home . |