Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor had earlier demanded in vain that Libyan troops should be included in the ECOMOG peacekeeping force . |
| 2 | The top 30 regional entrants will be invited to the final which will be held in London on June 4 , 1993 . |
| 3 | It was also agreed that the USA would supply South Korea with Patriot missiles , and that enhanced joint military exercises would be staged in 1992 . |
| 4 | Digressing momentarily , it is interesting that those creatures which pass through various metamorphic stages , however different these outward forms may be , remain of essentially the same ‘ psychological ’ nature throughout their cycle . |
| 5 | Clear deep well waters can be treated in this way , but . |
| 6 | The plans had been strongly opposed by environmentalists , who warned that the project would damage the richly-diverse Lacandona rainforest , and that nearby Mayan archaeological sites might be flooded . |
| 7 | Part of the explanation for the slow and uneven progress of Soviet — Latin American economic links can be found in the nature of the Soviet economy . |
| 8 | The old Soviet armed forces should be split up between the new states , not consolidated under the flag of St Andrew . |
| 9 | The SDLP and the DUP council leaders are both playing their cards close to their chests in the run-up to the June 7 AGM at which the top two mayoral posts will be decided . |
| 10 | It filed for a $300m offering of convertible debt and says that proceeds from the sale of the convertible junior subordinated notes will be used to repay part of its existing 9.5% subordinated debentures . |
| 11 | But it is currently unclear how comprehensive these new procedures will be . |
| 12 | Certainly , in terms of the volume of waste generated in the UK non-nuclear hazardous industrial wastes should be high on the environmental agenda ; while less than 1 million tonnes of all nuclear wastes were generated in 1985–86 , 10 times that amount were generated of hazardous wastes ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 13 ) . |
| 13 | Some slight insight into early local agricultural practices may be obtained from such things as Anglo-Saxon charters , details of which have been published ( from 1961 onwards ) in a series of volumes called The Early Charters of … , and commentaries on land usage such as in The Domesday Geography of … , each volume of which deals with a particular region . |
| 14 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 15 | Firstly , it was not entirely unexpected that giant multinational German companies would be committed to providing a comprehensive language training service . |
| 16 | As part of a journalistic and sociological school of film-viewing , Haskell 's work tended to ask ‘ why this film now ? ’ ; this approach assumes by and large that unambiguous answers can be given , that ideology ( sexism ) can be ‘ read off ’ the film text , as , for example , in Haskell 's well-known argument that the violence against women and the absence of big female leading parts in the films of the 1970s was a matter of a backlash against an emerging women 's movement . |
| 17 | The Company was not really interested and explained that their powers had long since lapsed and costly new Parliamentary Powers would be needed . |
| 18 | In the final stage of EMU , reached via " a lengthy transitional process " , he envisaged that the European central bank system into which existing national central banks would be integrated , would enjoy guaranteed independence and could impose sanctions on governments which breached budgetary discipline . |
| 19 | But changing entrenched ways of doing things and challenging powerful financial interests will be difficult , whatever the intentions of the government . |
| 20 | A great many theoretical physicists would be prepared to express some unease about the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics — in particular , about Copenhagen orthodoxy — but only a tiny fraction of them ever direct serious attention to such questions . |
| 21 | Good practical administrative abilities must be secured in order to make a successful career out of conveyancing . |
| 22 | Complex statistical multivariate procedures can be used to correlate and group market research data so as to give a statistically accurate identification of : * the size of segment groups and their similarities ; * the differences between the various groupings of attribute sets ; * the relationship of these groups to important consumer , market or product/benefit requirements . |
| 23 | In inter-continental collision orogens major sustained horizontal stresses can be generated which give rise to recumbent folds . |
| 24 | Examples of possible syllabic velar nasals would be ‘ thicken ’ ( where and are also possible ) , and ‘ broken key ’ , where the nasal consonant occurs between velar consonants ( again , or could be substituted for ) . |
| 25 | How depressed those tough pioneers would be to see their descendants , who had not only lost their pioneer spirit , but the ability to walk ! |
| 26 | It remains true , however , that it is still deeply contentious to suggest the possibility of points of view in philosophy , let alone that substantial conclusions might be drawn from them . |
| 27 | We suggest that the favourable results in respect of severe diabetic acute complications can be explained by the careful counselling of patients before the implementation of intensified insulin therapy and by the quality of glucose self-monitoring . |
| 28 | The most important prime ministerial appointments will be those of the members of Cabinet . |
| 29 | People usually recorded these performances ; indeed sometimes two or three glittering stereophonic radio-cassette recorders would be placed within microphone distance . |
| 30 | Therefore some of the clinical retinoic acid-treated phenotypes could be explained by alterations in Hox expression similar to those reported here . |