Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course is designed to enable students who have taken a first degree in more than one European or Latin American language to extend their knowledge of European and/or Latin American literatures through a range of optional courses . |
| 2 | Tel-me is a software package that runs on 80386 or 80486 personal computers under Microsoft Corp Windows 3.1 . |
| 3 | For example , a researcher interested in the factors responsible for differing rates of absence from work may well interview groups of workers randomly selected from lists of employees in large factories and small ones , factories which have high or low overall rates of absence , or factories which involve different kinds of production processes . |
| 4 | The Council would welcome any comments or suggestions on these proposals , particularly with regard to the high or low level options for the route in the vicinity of the Baberton and Westburn housing developments , so that public opinion can be reflected in the design of the road where possible . |
| 5 | Conspiracies or strong personal relations between business and state elites , such as corruption , nepotism or clientelism , are syndromes of underdevelopment for arbiter theorists . |
| 6 | Using your rough pencil copy as a guide , commence the preparation of the artwork by placing down the mounting pads of the components , using either crepe tape circles or rub-down dry transfers of appropriate diameter . |
| 7 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 9 | To demonstrate the magnitude of changes wrought by man upon nature the book devoted chapters to vegetable and animal species ( chapter 2 ) , to woods ( 3 ) , waters ( 4 ) , sands ( 5 ) and to the projected or possible geographical changes by man ( 6 ) . |
| 10 | MUSICMAN Stingray bass , natural , pre-Ernie Ball , £525 , or possible part-exchange Precision plus cash . |
| 11 | They are uncommon in the tropical or subtropical molluscan faunas of the Tertiary . |
| 12 | You should never increase a long run , tempo run , speed session or total weekly mileage by more than 10 per cent over the previous week . |
| 13 | You can take a 12-mile or 20-mile circular walk around the village . |
| 14 | Epidemiological research appears to favour environmental explanations for declining mortality rates in infancy and early adult life rather than medical interventions or specific pharmacological innovations for preventive and curative purposes ( McKeown 1976 ) . |
| 15 | In the first place , its hypocrisy was not simply a lie , except perhaps among those whose sexual tastes were as powerful as they were publicly inadmissible , e.g. prominent politicians depending on puritan voters or respectable homosexual businessmen in provincial cities . |
| 16 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |
| 17 | The tank has never had more than seven or eight small species at any time . |
| 18 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 19 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 20 | Six or eight well-briefed farmers from different areas and different disciplines throughout Scotland should aim to find out how European farmers ae implementing the rules and regulations and how individual governments support their farmers . |
| 21 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 22 | It 's a full relational database with the capacities needed for heavy-duty work : 255 fields per record , 16 million records per table , 2,000 tables or 32 million records per database . |
| 23 | It should perhaps come as no surprise that the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) in England and Wales has some of the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ( NAEP ) in the US ; or that new moves in the UK to establish procedures to make incompetent teachers liable to sanctions ( reported in the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 24 | If the British governments of the 1980s had been elected by proportional representation , it is almost unthinkable that any party could have gained a sufficient majority to impose the sweeping reforms instituted by Mrs Thatcher — or that decisive government of any hue could be achieved in the future . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 26 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 27 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 28 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 29 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
| 30 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |