Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the institutions most usually approached for funding here ( The Arts Council , RTE , Commercial business ) are n't clamouring to pour money into film , both Giannaris and Gibbons feel that with persistence and imagination ( albeit in voluminous quantities ! ) the now microscopic organism may eventually become multi-cellular . |
| 2 | The vegetables most commonly grown in the garden were also grown in the fields : these were the bean and the pea , the basic ingredients in most medieval peasant recipes . |
| 3 | Among them was Roger Perks , head teacher of Taverstock School in Birmingham , one of the authorities most strongly opposed to opting out . |
| 4 | Consisting originally of 326 items , the collection was assembled by Thomas Coke , who acquired the majority of the drawings in Rome between 1714 and 1716 ; so they represent the work of artists most highly regarded in Italy at that time — dominant masters in Rome of the high Baroque . |
| 5 | Usually the classes and groups most adversely affected by soil erosion are politically weak , disunited and spatially separated . |
| 6 | Yet the poem stands apart from the attitudes most commonly expressed in her work , and , given its obscurity , it is necessary to be cautious with respect to its specific meaning . |
| 7 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 8 | In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer . |
| 9 | Other old foundations which were for locational or other reasons less well suited to the changing situation , stagnated or declined . |
| 10 | Old tattered flags hung from the ceiling , their patterns long since faded into the air . |
| 11 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 12 | Others , such as Morris ( 1972 ) , Panitch ( 1980 ) and Diamant ( 1981 ) , think that corporatism must be bureaucratic , but meaning that the state will be dependent on expert officials operating according to technocratic norms only loosely controlled by a political elite . |
| 13 | Not only will the specialist interest programme go but so too will the minority programmes so carefully nurtured by organizations seeking to satisfy a broad spectrum of interests and groups . |
| 14 | The LDDC has not given local authorities long enough to respond to planning applications ; some community groups have not been consulted ; until 1986 , all meetings were held in secret ; and the LDDC has paid only lip-service to local plans produced by the boroughs concerned . |
| 15 | * These are reprinted , along with other of Sickert 's writings in the invaluable booklet Walter Sickert ; Advice to young Artists so expertly edited by Lynda Morris , and published to coincide with the Norwich School of Art Gallery exhibition of works by Sickert in May 1986 , to which I am greatly indebted . |
| 16 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 17 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 18 | The committee of inquiry , composed of individuals with impressive antiracist credentials — Ian Macdonald , Gus John , Reena Bhavnani , Lily Khan — delivered a strong and , for some , an astonishing condemnation of the antiracist policies apparently vigorously pursued at the school , castigating them as doctrinaire , divisive , ineffectual and counterproductive . |
| 19 | Although this active altruism was said to wane in the final year at school when each pupil had a wide range of other preoccupations , the strength , the compactness and the self-reliance of student groups only occasionally had to be challenged by teachers . |
| 20 | Such contracts so far account for around 15% of most institutes ' funds . |
| 21 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 22 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 23 | Even a Board of Guardians so unusually influenced by Labour as that of Poplar was reluctant to pay out-door relief to the unemployed . |
| 24 | There are , to be sure , competing and contradictory images most clearly seen in militarized public demonstrations , but these are frequently and misleadingly labelled as the activities of student radicals or Red Army factions . |
| 25 | An adaptation to Labov 's methods rather differently motivated from those discussed in the last three sections may be found in Paul Kerswill 's recent work in Durham City ( 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The " mosaic units phenomenon , observed by Moore , and proposed as a " spontaneous occurrence of order from randomly selected particles " offers further corroboration : certain sizes of tesserae and motifs are shown to provide maximum adaptability of design , because they are proportional to the abstract units most frequently produced by " processes of spontaneous ordering " . |
| 27 | The rate of accumulation in those branches most closely tied to investment ( machinery , metals , construction ) reached 25–35 per cent per year , implying a doubling of the capital stock every three years or less . |
| 28 | If artists have to address the fact that AIDS-sufferers shuffle off this mortal coil faster than most of the rest of humanity , perhaps the arts most closely linked to the body can express the idea best . |
| 29 | The simplest large intestines , exhibiting a vestigial caecum and no sacculations , are found in the rat , cat , and dog , which are the animals most frequently used in studies on colonic motor function . |
| 30 | The birth control methods most commonly used by working class families were as readily available in 1870 as they were in 1950 . |