Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disease activity was assessed in 120 ulcerative colitis patients based on the criteria as outlined by Sutherland et al . |
| 2 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 3 | ‘ 500 turbulent years ’ in another epic . |
| 4 | Ostensibly designed to help poor African consumers , the beef programme is really aimed at helping rich European farmers . |
| 5 | His father was a farmer with advanced agricultural views who lived until the age of 88 , so that his son , who farmed with him , had ample time and restless energy to travel the country and buy pigs , sheep , horses and cattle with the aim of deliberately improving them . |
| 6 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 7 | With the exception of the penguins there are no specific feeding times . |
| 8 | Persistent total weedkillers will kill all plant growth , perhaps for six months or more . |
| 9 | This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Was your betrothed Matilda 's man ? ’ he went on , still in that frigid tone . |
| 11 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 12 | Geoff Tulloch referred to her as ‘ that frigid bitch ’ . |
| 13 | That frigid November of ‘ 81 — or was it ‘ 82 ? |
| 14 | Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’ |
| 15 | They will work so much better on the day if they are given that advance preparation . |
| 16 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 17 | Terry Eagleton came some way to acknowledging this , in a quasi-refutation of his Althusserian phase , when he included himself among the English Marxist intellectuals who ‘ managed the difficult dialectical trick of appropriating certain Althusserian concepts in blithe ignorance or disregard of their guilty political context . ’ |
| 18 | an enclosed glazed cab with two access doors |
| 19 | An enclosed glazed cabin was provided for the pilot and co-pilot , and a specious interior allowed for a navigation compartment complete with chart table , a wireless cabin , canteen , galley and sleeping berths . |
| 20 | It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides . |
| 21 | Yeah but it 's such a strange bloody house in n it ? |
| 22 | The strange metallic noises continued at intervals , whenever he was in a position to hear them . |
| 23 | This basic pattern is illustrated by the following , complete four-sentence paragraph ( here split into parts and with sentence numbers added ) . |
| 24 | Western intelligence estimates range between 20,000 and 35,000 armed men . |
| 25 | The normal stabilising mechanisms are out of control and the whole cortex becomes involved . |
| 26 | With its extensive introductory articles and detailed references , emphasised by illustrations of comparative gold boxes or designs from major museums and private collections , the book represents a summary of present knowledge about the art of snuff boxes . |
| 27 | The position of the MPLA-PT government also appeared weakened by the imminent withdrawal of all Cuban troops under the December 1988 tripartite Namibian independence agreements which had failed to address the conflict in Angola [ see pp. 36380 ; 36479-81 ] . |
| 28 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 29 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |
| 30 | The insufferable Untermeyer in 1923 castigated the texture of The Waste Land as ‘ that formless plasma which Mr Ezra Pound likes to call a Sordelloform ’ ; and in the same year in London , Clive Bell , the voice of ‘ Bloomsbury ’ , said of Eliot that ‘ no aesthetic theory can explain his indiscreet boosting of … the lamentable Ezra Pound ’ . |