Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This two-track approach was seen by the press in member countries as reflecting continued manoeuvring over the role of the United States in the alliance , against a background of US troop reductions in Europe and Franco-German proposals for a European military force . |
| 2 | For 1993 Mr Fothergills again lead the way in revivals with ‘ Night and Day ’ after spotting just one plant of this white-throated , crimson flowered variety in a four-acre field of ‘ Black Prince ’ . |
| 3 | The Rational Audio Aura 01 is a Czech-made deck with a parallel tracking arm ( which moves across the record on rails instead of pivoting from one end ) , bizarre retro-styling and an idiosyncratic sound . |
| 4 | ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone . |
| 5 | And the technical reliability of a crucial design feature of the plant — its steam-generators — remain a matter of conjecture . |
| 6 | Chartism articulated experience within a complex rhetoric that interpellated radical working-class support at a national level . |
| 7 | He was probably as tough as old leather , cycling his rural route with a heavy sack every morning . |
| 8 | The traditional costume of the men is white baggy knee-length trousers , a white long-sleeved and open-necked shirt with a soft collar and a red sash at the waist . |
| 9 | She was immediately conscious of every line of the taut muscular body , from his shoulders beneath the open-necked shirt to a slim waist and lean thighs beneath the dark trousers he was wearing . |
| 10 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 11 | The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company . |
| 12 | We have seen in this chapter how a dual structure of production has been maintained in Japan through the interconnected activities of private business and a state which has supported the simultaneous existence of a limited number of larger companies and a massive network of smaller ones . |
| 13 | It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise . |
| 14 | It is also clear that the renewal and extension of the non-proliferation treaty , hopefully leading in due course to a comprehensive test-ban treaty , depends crucially on the actions of the existing nuclear weapons states . ’ |
| 15 | If endorsed by the cabinet and the ANC 's national executive committee , and in due course by a multi-party conference , it would effectively postpone majority rule until the year 2000 . |
| 16 | Fomalont and Sramek ( 1976 ) used radio-telescopes on a 35 km baseline at Green Bank , West Virginia , to study radio-sources close to the Sun at frequencies of 2.7 and 8.1 GHz . |
| 17 | The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day . |
| 18 | In his first pleasure at being admitted to this inner circle of learning he had compared it to Dante 's Paradiso , in which the saints and patriarchs and virgins sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation , a huge rose , and also the leaves of a huge volume , once scattered through the universe , now gathered . |
| 19 | Information on living standards in the FES and GHS is to be linked at the aggregate level of a given household type and income level . |
| 20 | She looked like some grotesque statue in a pagan ritual . |
| 21 | Owners of a historic building on a valuable site who are determined to realize substantial sums on the property often allow the building to decay during the years of indecision . |
| 22 | Having won in Bratislava on Monday with an impressive 17.18 metres , the Commonwealth silver medallist is laying strong foundations for a serious medal bid in Spain . |
| 23 | If the interim payment was specifically assigned to one head of damage ( eg on account of nursing services or the cost of a specially modified bungalow for a quadraplegic ) there is no difficulty , and the note at para 29/11/2 of the 1993 White Book encourages the court to assign the payment to special damages to simplify the calculation of interest at trial . |
| 24 | For these reasons , ‘ the task of the left , in relation to the ‘ regional question ’ , should be to demonstrate the class nature of regional problems and state policy and institutions , and expose the use of spatial ideology as a dominant class strategy to split the labour movement . ’ |
| 25 | Advanced RISC Machines Ltd , Cambridge , UK has licensed Apple Computer Inc 's partner on the Newton personal digital assistant , Sharp Corp to manufacture and market its ARM processors and associated products on a worldwide basis . |
| 26 | Perhaps paradoxically , it is argued that the money supply should not be manipulated by the monetary authorities on a short-term basis because the existence of such lags would make the effect of monetary policy uncertain , although powerful . |
| 27 | The regulationist approach explains periods of structural change such as the ‘ crossroads years ’ of the 1970s and 1980s in terms of the breakdown of one mode of regulation and the possible shifts toward a new one . |
| 28 | At Bluff he designed a charming two-storey half-timbered building with a wide cantilevered canopy . |
| 29 | The Presidency and the leaders of the six republics agreed measures on Aug. 20-21 to keep the federation functioning at a minimum economic and political level for a further three months , with trade continuing between the republics and a monetary policy which would allow the country to pay its foreign creditors . |
| 30 | By now Haslam was firmly on the management ladder at ICI and his broad experience of a wide variety of jobs and functions under the company 's rotation scheme was clearly paying dividends . |