Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
| 2 | At the end of August , Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust had its portfolios invested as follows : 0.9% Mexico , 2.6% Chile , 14.2% Brazil , 11.6% Hong Kong , 3% Indonesia , 9.6% Philippines , 8% Singapore , 8.1% Thailand , 7.6% Malaysia , 1.8% South Korea , 0.2% Hungary , 9.3% Turkey , 5.8% Greece , 5.7% Portugal and 11.6% liquid investments and cash . |
| 3 | The 5ft 6ins victim had a weak heart and ‘ a toddler could have robbed him ’ — but his death was still a case of murder , the officer added . |
| 4 | Some can also help to strengthen thin and weak hair whilst others help hair look fuller and healthier . |
| 5 | This locks the bricks into a solid mass that can be walked on as soon as it 's finished , providing a surface over which you can barrow more bricks . |
| 6 | Cities are the inverse , containing individual blocks , streets but few voids , lungs : an excessive impression of solid mass and a zero expression of space . |
| 7 | Until well into the reign of Augustus the display of Greek art in Rome was more closely linked to political advancement and military might than to religious belief and aesthetic appreciation . |
| 8 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 10 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 11 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 12 | Any political decision that could lead to the closure of either Devonport or Rossythe would also put the defence of this country at risk . |
| 13 | It would be , in fact , in the nature of a political decision and as such one which Civil Servants are accustomed to leave to their masters . |
| 14 | He might well exclude old statutes like those forbidding contraception , however clear and precise these might be , if they are only the relics of long-abandoned policies , if they represent no contemporary political decision and therefore serve no useful role in coordinating social behaviour now . " |
| 15 | When a woman is politically involved , the decision to have or not have a child becomes a political decision as well and not just a question of personal wishes . |
| 16 | It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal . |
| 17 | But it 's whether , whether the officers do that and start the consultation or whether it 's done by P A G , I 'm getting a shaking of the head here , I think it needs a political decision as opposed to anything else . |
| 18 | In terms of funding , there 's going to have to be some political decision as to how we allocate those resources . |
| 19 | Rather silent , but has a low bark or grunt . |
| 20 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 21 | We thus formally define equivalence of normal forms as follows . |
| 22 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 23 | I said that asymmetric arms races were more likely to lead to interesting progressive improvements than symmetric ones , and we can now see why this is , using human weapons to illustrate the point . |
| 24 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the fabric of mid-Victorian hegemony was shattered by a series of structural contradictions , from economic retardation and industrial unrest , to growing socialist and feminist political militancy and intensification of anxiety over a whole range of social issues . |
| 25 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 26 | Uniface says each of the GUIs are supported by a specific driver that provides applications with all the features of the particular environment . |
| 27 | This is one of the best Basque villages , twistier than others in its layout , and the home of the red pepper , a fiery vegetable that now has an annual festival in Espelette in the autumn . |
| 28 | John Major 's inquiry should be held in public , not behind closed doors or with the usual excuse that publication would ‘ not be in the public interest ’ . |
| 29 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 30 | Many health professionals were strongly attracted to the idea because it put them in touch with the community in a quite different way from their private clinics or hospital services . |