Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidelines , due for later this year , will assign electronic equipment into four categories depending on its susceptibility to RFI . |
| 2 | ‘ Bond has been one of the walking wounded for so long that most people have seen this coming and should have provided against it , ’ a banking executive said . |
| 3 | They have produced evidence that the Antarctic ice cap has remained stable for over 11 million years , despite fluctuations in global temperature . |
| 4 | All had been clinically stable for over three weeks . |
| 5 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 6 | The only severe check came in 1625 when plague killed one in twelve people and raised the death rate to three times the annual norm ; after that the population remained stable for almost 150 years . |
| 7 | You need to understand how to get your Mainframe to talk directly to your customers ' PCs , how to integrate voice , data and image systems , that OSI is the international standard with 7 vital layers which makes it possible for previously isolated systems to talk to each other , and that GOSIP is the US and UK Governments ' OSI profile . |
| 8 | The second component was to create educational and health services as rapidly as possible for as many people as possible , and the third was to achieve some fairer distribution of income between expatriate companies and individuals , and the local indigenous population . |
| 9 | Within a large warren complex it is possible for as many warreners to work independently as there is surface space for them to use . |
| 10 | Yet such interference was possible for only one ruler of Imperial Russia : Peter the Great . |
| 11 | A second conclusion is that despite the findings from small-group research it is possible for relatively large primary work groups of up to fifty members to operate successfully . |
| 12 | This will make it possible for more informed advice to be given to parents of mentally handicapped children about how they can best assist their children 's language development . |
| 13 | Writing on a touch sensitive computer screen with a ‘ stylus ’ just like using a pen and paper has been possible for quite some time now . |
| 14 | One day I started crying because I was so upset about how poorly he was . |
| 15 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 16 | ( That 's why it gets used for only small and specialized purposes , not for things like spaceships hulls ) . |
| 17 | The main reason for pursuing archaeology is , of course , to find out as much as possible about how recent and remote societies lived and operated . |
| 18 | The skua is astonishingly agile for so big a bird , but can not keep up among the throng and gives up . |
| 19 | For this reason , both the GCSE and records of achievement are likely to require a much wider range of assessment techniques to be employed than was normal for more knowledge-based examinations , with oral and practical components figuring significantly . |
| 20 | Of the rest of the pack she says : ‘ I would n't want to be definite about how many of then will be around in five years ’ time . ’ |
| 21 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 22 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 23 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 24 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 25 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 26 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |
| 27 | ‘ Hopefully we will be able to make history come alive for the children , ’ Mr. Callaway said , adding that the school would still be grateful for as many old photographs and bits and pieces of memorabilia as possible . |
| 28 | And if , for some reason , he has really chosen to drop out for a while , he would n't be grateful for too much fuss , would he ? ’ |
| 29 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |
| 30 | I ran through the fields , laid low for about two hours , then I made my way to the motorway and hitched it to Birmingham . |