Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A finer brush is required to depict the intellectual debates of the period , as distinct from merely documenting achievements or contrasting new with old cosmologies . |
| 2 | Higher for manufactured goods , or high relative to agricultural goods |
| 3 | Others will go ‘ skippering ’ or sleeping rough in derelict buildings . |
| 4 | The indications for TIPSS were bleeding from gastric varices ( six patients ) or recurrent bleeding from oesophageal varices that had not responded to repeated injection sclerotherapy ( 10 patients , number of bleeds two to more than 10 before TIPSS ) . |
| 5 | SAILABILITY , the organisation which co-ordinates and promotes sailing for disabled people , has just published a set of Keynotes for handicapped sailors , sailing clubs and other groups offering sailing opportunities for disabled people or those interested in developing facilities . |
| 6 | Three uniformed men were there with spades and sieves , and three or four more in plain clothes , with George Felse at the head of operations . |
| 7 | Belemnites vary from small fossils a centimetre or two long to large specimens tens of centimetres long : of course these are only a fraction of the size of the living animal , with their tentacles extending well beyond the guard . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't let your moral standards go lower and lower due to naked animals ’ , he told the interviewer . |
| 9 | Sensation was tested by measuring threshold electrosensitivity of the anal mucosa by means of a bipolar constant current stimulator probe , lubricated with a solution of KY Jelly ( Johnson and Johnson , Ascot , Berks , UK ) and normal saline in equal quantities . |
| 10 | The buccal cells were deposited by vacuum onto a membrane filter ( 5 µm pore size , Millipore Ltd ) and washed free of unbound bacteria with phosphate buffered saline . |
| 11 | For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West . |
| 12 | Placements , April to August a hundred and fifty nine in nursing homes , two hundred and eight in residential homes in all sectors . |
| 13 | The effects of job change and mobility on individuals and organisations have been investigated through cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of 200 graduate entrants to university , 120 police inspectors , and 2,300 middle to senior managers . |
| 14 | A quick survey was made of the various functions in the 1992–93 calendar of events and some allocated to different members of committee . |
| 15 | A quick survey was made of the various functions in the 1993 -93 calendar of events and some allocated to different members of committee . |
| 16 | In 1981–2 , there were 133,000 full-time and sandwich students in the thirty polytechnics , together with 65,000 part-time students and some 85,000 on short courses . |
| 17 | She made Cumberland sauce to go with the turkey , translucent and clear wine-red in little pots , with fine gold strips of peel lying in it . |
| 18 | The two new prisons were in addition to the eight new ones opened since 1985 and another 18 at various stages of completion . |
| 19 | Offline will always take two copies of Offlined material , seeking one media item available for Primary copies and another available for Secondary copies . |
| 20 | The offline system will always take two copies of requested material , seeking one media item available for Primary copies and another available for Secondary copies . |
| 21 | There were two entire sections of medical works , mostly in French , including many — they hardly seemed to go with spiritualism — on psychiatry , and another two of scientific books of all kinds ; several shelves of philosophical works , and also a fair number of botanical and ornithological books , mostly in English and German ; but the great majority of the rest were autobiographies and biographies . |
| 22 | It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London 's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation . |
| 23 | 1,674 Associates were elected in 1992 , 1,413 resident in the UK , the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man , and 261 resident in other countries . |
| 24 | Professor Hawkridge quotes , for example , a 1981 prediction that the number of installed microcomputers in the United States in 1984 will be 3 million of which 750000 will be in homes and 300 000 in educational institutions . |
| 25 | Industrial unrest followed , culminating in the great hand-loom weavers ' strike of 1825 , when 5,000 weavers and countless thousands of allied workers were out of work for three months . |
| 26 | Fast-paced , exciting , and packed full of red herrings , this latest thriller from the master craftsman will keep audiences poised on the edge of their seats ! |
| 27 | But despite this he was placed in a cell by himself and left unchecked for long periods . |
| 28 | And all this with made-over wings at fullback . |
| 29 | The same proportions were apparent in Primary PGCE courses , 12 out of 15 with 30+ hours , and all 15 with compulsory courses ( though one only had between 10 and 20 hours ) . |
| 30 | Indeed , in retrospect , the thought of Stanier and Fowler 2–6–4T 's and Black Fives on local trains , and Super D's , Stanier 8F 's , and Austerities trundling along with freight parcels trains of considerable variety is positively mouth watering . |