Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it would be a solid mass of grey serge and flat caps , blue pipe-smoke mingling with the breath of 1,000 workers in the chill air . |
| 2 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |
| 3 | To see this , we must develop the idea of Biomorph Land as a mathematical " space " , an endless but orderly vista of morphological variety , but one in which every creature is sitting in its correct place , waiting to be discovered . |
| 4 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 5 | The Economist that bastion of left wing thinking commissioned an actuary to estimate the likely number of vacancies during a parliament ten point seven three sorry to be precise about this colleagues Tory MPs can be expected to die over a full five year term , I 'm sorry for being morbid . |
| 6 | They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse . |
| 7 | So he 's saying , it 's a kind of complete kind of lateral thinking . |
| 8 | But not , as the blinkered writer of that article implied , necessarily her own independent choice . |
| 9 | North America provides , of course , the most striking instance of European settlement on a grand scale . |
| 10 | His ideal was ‘ the complete sympathy of complete detachment ’ , but in practice he distanced himself from his subjects and stressed his severity over the underlying sympathy . |
| 11 | Or a political writer of great eloquence . |
| 12 | First , if Mars acquired volatiles during accretion then the interior could be less thoroughly outgassed than that of the Earth , and this is in accord with the evidence for the lower level of geological activity on Mars . |
| 13 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 14 | These margins exhibit a much lower level of tectonic activity than the active margins located along convergent plate boundaries and are consequently termed passive continental margins ( or simply passive margins ) . |
| 15 | This was not only caused by the lower level of economic activity . |
| 16 | However , in the later 1970s these problems were exacerbated by the rundown of the New and Expanded Towns programme and the lower level of public-sector house-building . |
| 17 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |
| 18 | There is a lower level of initial margin on straddle positions . |
| 19 | The initial interferon course induced a reduction of the serum HBV-DNA and HBeAg levels of 87% and 18% , respectively , leading to a significantly lower level of viral replication activity at the start of the second longterm course compared with baseline . |
| 20 | One agreement stipulated that provision of enhanced responsibility and autonomy with a view to job enrichment " would not constitute a basis for job upgrading " . |
| 21 | A schedule historic building of great character . |
| 22 | Whenever she thought of James Halden a shameful wave of physical longing washed over her until she remembered he had used her and discarded her . |
| 23 | In language , as well as in social life and predator-avoidance tactics , the broad base of behavioural strategy is common to all horses , domestic and wild , though they are inventive and adaptive about the details . |
| 24 | Their powerlessness originated partly in ‘ internal ’ factors — inadequate organizational skills , fatal reliance on labour aristocrat values , failure to mobilize a broad base of political support — but chiefly in their inability to resolve several crucial externally imposed dilemmas associated with the idea of retirement . |
| 25 | These findings suggest that the rearrangement of the PGC gene may reflect the atrophic change of gastric mucosa . |
| 26 | Is not the constituency of the hon. Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) in the middle of the area of the United Kingdom which gets the largest level of outside investment into this country and , indeed , into the European Community ? |
| 27 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 28 | Further , the broad experience of published accounting reports warrants the distinction being drawn . |
| 29 | By the mid-century , the novelist 's art has entirely changed in this respect : extensive description of living space is no longer the rare exception but the rule . |
| 30 | For example , the striking color of Prussian Blue is an indication that electronic spectra may have unusual features . |