Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be , in fact , in the nature of a political decision and as such one which Civil Servants are accustomed to leave to their masters . |
| 2 | It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal . |
| 3 | In terms of funding , there 's going to have to be some political decision as to how we allocate those resources . |
| 4 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 5 | Therefore , the study of atk , in the context of its normal function and in the XLA phenotype , will provide important new information about the roles src protein tyrosine kinases play in cellular signalling . |
| 6 | There will be shock — usually the haemorrhage of tears , followed by temporary loss of normal function because of depression ; then , if all goes well , and the wound is ‘ nursed ’ with care and patience , it will finally heal , the severed edges uniting to produce a strong and healthy scar . |
| 7 | The sonnet stands not only as an account of some private instance but as a representative account of the pressures and inevitable containment of individuals by powerful forces outside their control . |
| 8 | The film is as artificial as a Mozart opera or Goldoni play but behind the artifice lies a generous salute to love , life and theatrical illusion . |
| 9 | An understanding of these processes is of value to all those — for instance , politicians , trade unions , businesses — who wish to understand , forecast and influence economic developments and policy at either an aggregate level or at the level of individual markets . |
| 10 | Not money well spent , and reflects badly on the credibility of their political coverage and on market research as a whole . |
| 11 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 12 | HLCAs should be fixed at a slightly lower level than at present , e.g. 80% below present values in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ LFA . |
| 13 | The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 . |
| 14 | Peat believes the market has now stabilised although at a significantly lower level than before the Gulf crisis and recession in key economies . |
| 15 | In the French LFAs , subsidised loans are the more common incentive for capital developments ; capital grants are fixed at a lower level than in the UK and are related to the degree of handicap . |
| 16 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 17 | PBL from the patient who did not produce toxoplasma antibodies did produce anti-HIV-1 antibodies , but at a much lower level than in other patients in this group ( HIV-1-specific ELISA index 1.85 ) . |
| 18 | There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local . |
| 19 | Under Khrushchev , however , there was a reassessment , and Soviet policy from this time onwards began to seek links of all kinds with the developing nations both at the political level and through trade , investment , arms sales , the training of students and so forth . |
| 20 | For Quine there are data and there is theory , and whatever desirable internal characteristics the theory may have , its justification is achieved , if at all , in the way our verificationalist semantics taught us that it should be ; that is , by appeal to the difference that the truth of the theory should make to possible experience and by direct ( strong ) verification of whether experience does in fact go the way the theory says it should . |
| 21 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 22 | During the siege Stamford had rung its church bells backwards in order to summon Royalist support and in response Cromwell threatened to raze the entire town . |
| 23 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 24 | You know that bit when in the last act where they 're sometimes sticking together |
| 25 | We examined the effect of varying the intervals between octreotide injection and meal ingestion on fasting and postprandial gall gladder motility and on plasma CCK and PP concentrations in patients with acromegaly . |
| 26 | Pounds , gallons , tons of sweat are in that building and on the roof . |
| 27 | By notice of motion dated 23 March 1990 Mr. Pierson applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 28 | By notice of motion dated 1 March 1990 Mr. Smart applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 29 | He would very probably find better evidence of present attitudes in his own political experience or in the popular press than in even fairly recent statutes enacted by a legislature most of whose members are now gone . |
| 30 | For example , it is often women in poor health , living in poor and crowded conditions , on a low income and without private transport , who are trying to bring up and cope with the demands of small children on their own . |