Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are as divorced from experience as they seem , the only explanations for their regular occurrence in a variety of people must be either , following Jung , that these are archetypal dreams with some allegorical significance , or that they represent an attempt to make sense out of experiences really occurring during dreaming sleep — an attempt to make a coherent story out of some pattern of the highly active discharges from the hindbrain which are a feature of REM sleep . |
| 2 | Moreover , as we shall see when we discuss collaborative teaching later in this chapter , it is much easier for two teachers than three or more to undertake the shared planning on which the success of classroom collaboration depends . |
| 3 | Somehow Shadwell contrives to create a more or less coherent narrative out of all this , and Lloyd 's manic production , which combines Restoration costumes with kitsch trimmings from the 1950s , moves at a pace which leaves the audience breathless . |
| 4 | Whilst we believe in our biologically-determined nature , there will be no possible utopia apart from these two : a matriarchy run by morally superior women , where desire is excluded , and where our innate niceness means that we can all live happily ever after ; or , we let the chaos out , and we rule fiercely and savagely for a short-lived reign , our ferocious and insatiable desire destroying everything around us . |
| 5 | Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else . |
| 6 | There is nothing wrong with that — in fact , without such precautions it would be hard to get a coherent programme together at all . |
| 7 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 8 | Mr Davison said : ‘ We are aware that they are taking a fairly careful look again at all the information . |
| 9 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
| 10 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 11 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 12 | Certainly they impute to the accused a degree of mystical malevolence just like that implied in witchcraft charges . |
| 13 | The contrasts which can be drawn with foreign industry even with such a tradition-bound country as France — are often stark . |
| 14 | While this hypothesis was systematically studied in the USA , British research specifically into this area was negligible . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the possible ground for distinguishing between the two cases , therefore , there remains a fundamental doubt as to just how much policy innovation can reasonably be expected from the British judiciary especially in such a politically sensitive area as defence policy . |
| 16 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
| 17 | • time-of-day tariff perhaps with several different charge bands applying to different times of day . |
| 18 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 19 | In such cases the employer is not liable in general for any wrong which consists in the improper carrying out of such work , though he will , of course , be liable if unlawful acts are done which he has actually authorized . |
| 20 | In fact there is a direct continuation inland for several miles of the algal mat that can be seen forming on the beach at the present day . |
| 21 | That sort of experience binds boy and rod together , and I used my old greenheart happily for many years to come ; but in time , the top section broke , then the middle section , and eventually , I had the rod redesigned . |
| 22 | I 've worked for German Intelligence twice in this war . |
| 23 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 24 | And there was cotton gingham at two shillings a yard , you 'd have a smashing blouse out of that at six shillings , maybe four of them to go with each of the skirts . |
| 25 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
| 26 | In addition , even though a fifth of total income is derived from occupational pensions , the vast majority of pensioners rely on social security either for all or for a significant proportion of their income : two-thirds of them receive 80 per cent or more of their income from this source . |
| 27 | At such points we can observe the spectrum of the unstable product together with that of any stable products , carrier materials and so on . |
| 28 | They 're top shelf up in that warehouse and they 're ten twelve foot up . |
| 29 | ‘ Indeed , yes , ’ agreed Dotty , breaking a digestive biscuit carefully in half . |
| 30 | Zips : a strong two-way zip runs very freely — a series of pleated stitching close to each side of the zip preventing any loose fabric catching . |