Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the leaky Government machine has failed to function by spewing out the usual advance warning of announcements in the pipeline , it seems unlikely that the deadline will be met — reflecting the complexities of trying to make rational long-term decisions in energy markets dominated by short-term thinking . |
| 2 | Yeah but you may spend that bloody standing at end of a bloody airfield here thinking nothing 's been done . |
| 3 | This hope turned out to be mistaken , but this was because of a new feature of the situation which was barely visible in 1072 : the Hildebrandine vision of a unified administrative system of government under papal direction was the real enemy of the primacy , as we can see from the history of the next fifty years . |
| 4 | She pounded into the frost-rimed chamber , breath freezing in front of her face , checking each possible place of concealment for a figure , dreading what she might find . |
| 5 | Ottakars , the eight strong chain of bookshops in the south of England , has opened its first stand-alone children 's bookshop in a property next door to its branch at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | They have achieved this by replacing the usual initial-value problem in terms of the Ernst equation by an equivalent 2 × 2 matrix homogeneous Hilbert problem in the complex plane . |
| 7 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 8 | I glance into my glass and hand her back the J ; her eyes close as she draws on it and I put my lips to my glass , slipping that sucked-on sliver of ice into my own mouth and rolling it around there , pretending it 's her tongue . |
| 9 | The bang as it bounces may be picked up by a hearing-aid or by a vibrator , thus avoiding that sticky mess on top of the stove . |
| 10 | Fig. 2.12 Rich picture for part of a district health authority ( from Avison & Wood-Harper , 1990 ) |
| 11 | To win Objective 1 status , the regional economic output per head of population has to be less than 75 per cent of the EC average . |
| 12 | That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) . |
| 13 | Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 14 | We reported recently that colonic mucosa from patients with ulcerative colitis produce high values of platelet activating factor ( PAF ) , a potent proinflammatory lipid mediator . |
| 15 | Cricket had the fourth largest aggregate audience on television in 1988 , according to the figures of AGB Sports Watch/ BARB , but over so many hours that its audience at any one time is insignificant . |
| 16 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 17 | Barnett 's account of the Cabinet meeting of 1 February shows that matters had improved little in the command and control post of the British system of government since that awful day at Chequers in November 1974 when gloom descended : |
| 18 | In order to protect the interests of all people with care needs , of all people with dementia , who might end up in a private home , might end up in a voluntary home , might end up in Part 4 or might end up in a health service bed , it is necessary to look across that range of services at the general issues raised and see what can be done constructively in the interests of that total group of people with defined needs . |
| 19 | The changes in the classic agricultural structure of Spain between 1750 and 1850 were achieved by rearrangement of the traditional economy , by its expansion in space , not by any fundamental change . |
| 20 | Such ‘ abuse ’ on the list so far has n't overstepped the bounds of general footie fan decency etc ( with the possible exception of that memorable bout of Humphries v Donnelly a month or so back : - ) |
| 21 | On Jan. 23 , representatives of Hungary , Poland , Romania , Slovakia and Ukraine established the Carpathia-Tisza Economic Working Community at Nyiregyhaza in Hungary , along the lines of the Alpen-Adria Economic Community [ see p. 38508 ] ; a formal document was due to be signed by member states in April . |
| 22 | He 's a seasoned American decentralist in that broad tradition of dissent from Thoreau to Mumford , who , in a series of books , notably Human Scale ( a thoroughly documented US equivalent of Schumacher 's Small is Beautiful ) , Dwellers in the Land ( about regionalism ) , and The Conquest of Paradise ( about the European exploitation of the Americas from Columbus on ) , has attempted to contradict received opinion . |
| 23 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 24 | The implementation of the National Curriculum in the nineties will lead to an extension of that broad span of ability up the age range . |
| 25 | So a hummingbird that specialises in feeding from Heliconia has to patrol a whole group of plants , visiting each hanging spike of blossoms in strict rotation on a carefully timed schedule . |
| 26 | The Commission 's thinking about a wider European organisation was set out yesterday by its vice-president , Mr Frans Andriessen , in a report about the proposed European economic space with Efta in which capital , people , trade , and services would move freely . |
| 27 | He had thus had achieved the greatest practicable measure of independence without squandering resources on strategic missile development . |
| 28 | Welsh success : Wales continues to lead the UK out of recession , enjoying the largest regional increase in orders over the last four months , says the Bank of Wales . |
| 29 | This code enables users to produce a complete working Agent for installation in an System V.4 environment in minutes . |
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