Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 2 | The other is the right to treatment as an equal , or , as Dworkin puts it ‘ the right to equal concern and respect in the political decision about how these goods and opportunities are to be distributed ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 273 ) . |
| 3 | In four patients with positive hydrogen breath tests treated with oral metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) for seven days , fasting and post sucrose breath hydrogen excretion decreased to normal values of less than 12 ppm , which was associated with a reduction in faecal fat excretion in all four patients from 77.5 ( 8.4 ) ×10 - 3 to 57.7 ( 15 ) g fat/g stool/24 hours×10 - 3 ( p=NS ) . |
| 4 | The initial indication was , in all cases , CBD stricture associated with at least persistent cholestasis ( alkaline phosphatase concentrations greater than twice the normal values for more than three months and not decreasing for more than two weeks ) . |
| 5 | Well this provided some very interesting information I think , because I was very surprised the degree to which men were involved in decisions about what to put in the home and had very strong opinions about quite small details of colour and this kind of thing as to what went into the home . |
| 6 | And when Cardiff had shot Duvall , he had turned in helpless horror to where Rohmer sat , hands spread wide in appeal . |
| 7 | Herein lie the origins of a fundamental dichotomy that has dominated Japan 's recent history ; the simultaneous existence of both ‘ indigenous ’ and Western modes of thought and behaviour has resulted in acute cultural conflict . |
| 8 | But they offer three conflicting accounts of how different tiers of government operate . |
| 9 | As to which chair to which to start , a more rectangular , less curved style will be easier , and you can progress in due course to more ornate and complicated styles . |
| 10 | For the purposes of completing this project and covering some grand skylines in Snowdonia , the Lakes and Scotland — I had to take time out from my more usual pastime to actually walk those mountain crests . |
| 11 | ‘ In addition , the training gives you a broad base in actually running an organisation . |
| 12 | Behind my back the four smokestacks of the power station pointed upwards , the threshold of an unfinished building of inconceivably vast and dreadful size . |
| 13 | From now on , we shall use the term utterance for a unit of language used by somebody in context to do something — to communicate — and reserve sentence for grammatically complete units regarded purely formally , in isolation from their context and their function . |
| 14 | From now on , we shall use the term utterance for a unit of language used by somebody in context to do something — to communicate — and reserve sentence for grammatically complete units regarded purely formally , in isolation from their context and their function . |
| 15 | Socialists must incline towards a comprehensive system of education ‘ under which all children would ideally share the same broad experience at least up to the school leaving age ’ . |
| 16 | But possibly because of his broad experience of both the public and private sectors , Cuckney rode out the storm calmly . |
| 17 | The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill . |
| 18 | ‘ If Scotland 's opposition MPs were all prepared to work double time on a Friday , they could form the basis of a representative recalled parliament without even having to boycott Westminster . ’ |
| 19 | Where the aim is to sustain cost leadership over the longer term , rather than to gain a short-term advantage through temporarily having , say , more modern equipment , one must look ahead over the life-cycle of the market ( however narrowly or broadly defined ) . |
| 20 | It instead designates the imagined field from where we can never be fully seen . |
| 21 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 22 | Mike Atherton helped Gooch to lay solid foundations in both innings , but contributions of 19 and 25 are not compelling reasons for re-selection . |
| 23 | Beginning in 1991 , the government was authorized to allocate up to $500 million a year until the total liability of approximately $1,250 million was paid in compensation for losses incurred in the forced relocation of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans in camps throughout the American west . |
| 24 | The 48-year-old special project teacher from Aislaby near Yarm , is hoping to overturn Stuart Bell 's Labour majority of almost 15,000 . |
| 25 | It goes in the right direction in so far as it does aim to re to continue to reduction in migration , but it does n't go far enough . |
| 26 | As well as the chatty bit about not forgetting the urine sample , both sides carry advertising . |
| 27 | The PLO itself published a communiqué in Tunis on June 8 attributing responsibility for the killing to the Israeli secret service , Mossad — a charge which was in turn dismissed by the Israeli authorities as not meriting a response . |
| 28 | The clawback mechanism has reduced the 18.5 per cent water holding intended for Japan , US , Canada and European institutions to around 12 per cent . |
| 29 | The clawback mechanism has reduced the 18.5 per cent water holding intended for Japan , US , Canada and European institutions to around 12 per cent . |
| 30 | The negotiations continued into 1991 [ see pp. 37658 ; 37716 ; 37861 ; 37919 ; 38195 ] , but the situation was abruptly altered when Mount Pinatubo began erupting in June , causing extensive damage to both the Clark and Subic bases [ see p. 38294 ] . |