Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease . |
| 2 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 3 | In the field of philosophy logical support was claimed for the absolute superiority of scientific and mathematical thinking over religion and even traditional philosophy . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , there is another side to Semai character , one involving a large measure of social and emotional isolation and jealously guarded personal autonomy . |
| 5 | A slowdown in the productivity gains on all plants ( old and new ) — gains which could be obtained from reorganization and more intensive work — meant that a given growth of product wages already implied faster scrapping . |
| 6 | The Partial Indemnity Clause will apply to group schemes e.g. vehicles in the ownership or control of a firm or association and otherwise eligible for fleet terms but where they are in fact insured in the name of particular individuals . |
| 7 | Too much thinking and too little practice . |
| 8 | In yet another classification , Reid distinguishes between truancy and less serious forms of poor attendance at school . |
| 9 | , ( Arthur Annesley ) Ronald ( 1886–1926 ) , novelist , was born 17 January 1886 in London , the second of the three sons and the four children of ( Sir ) Joseph Thomas Firbank of London , railway contractor and later Unionist MP for East Hull , and his wife Jane Harriette , daughter of James Perkins Garrett , rector of Kellistown , county Carlow , Ireland . |
| 10 | How many fascists did he bury with public grief and deep private satisfaction in the last year of the German Occupation ? |
| 11 | Harkin , serving his second term as senator after five terms in the House of Representatives , was an unabashed liberal ; a populist of working-class stock and thus able to appeal to the Democrats ' traditional constituency , his abrasiveness could alienate middle-class voters . |
| 12 | He 's arguably as dangerous as William Munny ( Eastwood ) , ex-hired killer and now broken-down hog farmer who comes out of retirement for one last job . |
| 13 | It has plenty of slots — seven 16-bit and one 8-bit — with two of the former occupied by the video card and yet another minuscule component , the multi-I/O card with floppy and IDE interfaces , which is barely two inches tall . |
| 14 | However , if you feel the buyer 's going to present a business problem we show them the buyer 's guide and a business card so you can give them the buyer 's guide , explain what it 's for and then give them your business card and then that buyer 's guide to look for business card . |
| 15 | So it comforted her to see Alan lying there on her bed , his huge ancient unpolished cracked shoes nestling comfortably in the tangled mess of her grey sheets and leaking duvet and discarded purple socks , his eager owl face shining with enlightenment as he spoke abstractly of public spending projects and the American New Deal and tight fiscal policy . |
| 16 | Jenny Bianco , social services chairwoman , rejected the accusation : ‘ If you get a good service while paying less than it is a much better deal and more realistic than cutting services to save money . ’ |
| 17 | The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender , Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns . |
| 18 | Merovingian history deserves detailed study in its own right , but it also needs to be understood in the broader context of Late Antique and early medieval history . |
| 19 | Such curves are obtained by dilatometry which is a slow experiment and therefore capable of giving reproducible results for the glass transition temperature which , as we shall see , is strongly time-dependent . |
| 20 | An observer may be led to accept some observation statement on the basis of a perception and yet that observation statement may be false . |
| 21 | He rather hauntingly characterises the life of the contemplative as a God-hunt and compares those hounds who see the hare and never weary of the chase until they have their quarry with those who run simply because others in the pack do so . |
| 22 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 23 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 24 | The units have a built in prefilter to prolong the life of the reverse osmosis membrane and nuclear deionisation , organic adsorption , ultra-filtration and ultra-violet sterilisation and also available depending on the purity of water required . |
| 25 | Described by his owner-trainer as ‘ a long , leeky , plain-looking horse ’ , Norton 's Coin ambled along quietly while the fan club squeaked its excitement at the appearance of Desert Orchid , striding jauntily around the parade ring and clearly eager to get on with the business . |
| 26 | Even though Frodo was also under the spell of the Ring and clearly unable to throw it away , Gollum 's own greed released Frodo from his torment and ended his quest for him . |
| 27 | The National Union was then hostile to coalition and quite determined to use its independence if necessary to protect the interests of the party . |
| 28 | The research assesses the success of the course , providing long-term feedback and also case-history material for tutors and organisers and also more general data on the problems and opportunities currently facing small businessmen in attempts to develop their markets . |
| 29 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 30 | Generally , it is agreed that whatever the magnitude of the effects of the soot plumes on the monsoon , it will have been within the range of natural interannual variability and very difficult , if not impossible , to substantiate . |