Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who is that munching cashews on the tape . |
| 2 | Classes in the faculty are normally conducted in New College , a striking historic building on the Mound in central Edinburgh which includes the largest theological library in Britain . |
| 3 | It has golden eagles and wild cats , and a fabulous alpine flora on the high crags . |
| 4 | The book is non-mathematical and assumes little technical knowledge on the part of the reader . |
| 5 | The significant difference in the number of cells per crypt column needs further investigation with regard to its cause and its possible confusing effects on the analysis of labelled cell distribution . |
| 6 | However , Swallow was not optimistic regarding the prospects for the latter , arguing that administrative confusion on the border with the Czech Republic now made it easier to ship kit to Slovakia from a third country . |
| 7 | Sussex geology has imposed an extensive regional pattern on the agricultural crops . |
| 8 | These themes are the impact of national and regional economic performance on the cities ; labour-market considerations ; urban economic structure ; spatial explanations ; and the role of capital . |
| 9 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 10 | Finally , some adventurous youngsters began diving off low rocky outcroppings on the shoreline , a practice which was copied by other members of the troupe . |
| 11 | Mistakes like Golding 's are ‘ external mistakes ’ — disparities between what the book claims to be the case , and what we know the reality to be ; often they merely indicate a lack of specific technical knowledge on the writer 's part . |
| 12 | Maud lived on the ground floor of a red-brick Georgian house on the outskirts of Lincoln . |
| 13 | However , the Interim Technical Report on the Piper Alpha explosion , published last October , raised the strong possibility that the incoming shift were unaware that a vital valve had been removed . |
| 14 | Full-time reserve police on the whole are people who are disqualified from entering the regular force as a result of age , height , or physical health . |
| 15 | The initial whisker crystal or filament is often highly bent and the growth layers can be seen to exert a very strong straightening action on the bent filament , such that , by the time the sinuous initial thread has grown to a millimetre or so thick , it is in , variably straight . |
| 16 | This area has been subdivided into three broad geological provinces on the basis of Zechstein facies relationships . |
| 17 | Boy-scout amateurishness , they claim , is on the way out ; a professional command-and-control centre on the way in . |
| 18 | A glimpse of a tall black-haired man on the edge of the throng sent sudden excitement sky-rocketing . |
| 19 | Twelve of these children received previous antibiotic therapy for various reasons , with possible inadvertent effects on the diagnosis of H pylori . |
| 20 | It involves the separation of ownership from control and the growth of ‘ management ’ with an associated technical intelligentsia on the one hand , together with the increased organization of industrial workers on the other . |
| 21 | In the event the Act required simultaneous , across-the-board registration of both sectors , placing an unnecessary strain on the private sector , and ensuring the greatest possible public hostility to the legislation , and the greatest possible strain on the Registrar 's Office . |
| 22 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 23 | By the mid-seventies this had become one of the most controversial cultural events on the country . |
| 24 | Tim first met Princess Anne when he was an assistant navigating officer on the Royal Yacht Britannia in 1979 and received an unexpected invitation to dine with the royal family . |
| 25 | As yet there has been little public debate on the specifics of the options or the associated design choices . |
| 26 | Said he liked all that empty space on the right . |
| 27 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 28 | The attack would have petered out , leaving the Germans exhausted and weakened to meet the Allied sledge-hammer blow on the Somme . |
| 29 | And fancy telling me that there was an interesting stoup in that old church on the island . ’ |
| 30 | I agree with the right hon. Gentleman on the importance of forensic evidence in cases in Northern Ireland about which we are all aware . |