Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 3 examines in detail the characteristic logic of state enterprises and argues that the relationship of these enterprises to the state is marked by conflicting and changeable political objectives and an oscillation between pressures tor political control and enterprise autonomy . |
| 2 | Malawi has not been debilitated by localism , and experienced considerable economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s with a strong agricultural performance and an unusually effective civil service . |
| 3 | The City was not too deterred by the rights issue which was offset by strong interim figures and an improved dividend payout . |
| 4 | When we talk of the in-love state , we are usually including strong sexual passion and an intensity of emotion not experienced in other affectionate and loving relationships . |
| 5 | She was dressed in a sloppy brown sweater and an old pair of slacks . |
| 6 | You could see they thought it was so easy : - ) This after a complete fluky deflection and an OG . |
| 7 | A ladylike shoe in worn red velvet , with a wonky high heel and an ankle-strap fastened with a bone button carved into the semblance of a rose . |
| 8 | He 's obviously neglected his job and let the club go to pot and is generally a frightful old bugger and an excrescence . |
| 9 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 10 | In mid-November , however , Kurdish leaders were reported to be preparing for a fresh economic blockade and an imminent government attack on Kurdish strongholds . |
| 11 | An advanced version of Windows , called NT ( New Technology ) is due out next year for high powered workstations and an adapted version of Windows 3.1 for PCs is now available for pen-centric portable PCs . |
| 12 | On 30 January I took part in the Prime Minister 's discussions with President Yeltsin , following which the British-Russian joint declaration and an agreement on consular posts were signed . |
| 13 | The Australian-born son of an English naval man and an Irish mother , he was serving in the Royal Artillery in Java when , in 1942 , he was captured . |
| 14 | This shows a central , floral device , enclosed by a circle of simple guilloche , ( which , in turn , is enclosed by an arrangement of star-like interlaced squares and an outer circle of crowstep matched with three-strand guilloche ) . |
| 15 | Many plumbing fittings for use in the home are approved by the Water Research Centre under its voluntary scheme — look for this approval ( or a British Standard Kitemark or an approval mark to a relevant EC Directive ) when buying . |
| 16 | McGrath , a father of three , of Paisley , and Milliken of Glasgow , both members of the Strathclyde force , deny causing grevious bodily harm and an alternative charge of wounding and assault . |
| 17 | When new , consumption was 19.5 mpg so Fairey overdrive , free wheeling hubs and an electric fan were fitted giving 21,5 mpg on two star . |
| 18 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 19 | The point was well made some years ago by Hugh Maguire , a veteran of the English orchestral scene and an evident admirer or Karajan , when he said : ‘ He is too strong , too powerful , too rich — too much outside the general run . |
| 20 | For today 's ceremony , she is expected to wear a favourite broad-brimmed hat and an over the knee pastel coloured dress . |
| 21 | It seems incomprehensible that a chassis with such a marked front weight-bias and an inside-rear tyre that can jump six inches clear of the ground can also provide such superlative behaviour . |
| 22 | A few weeks after that incident we received a so-called hot tipoff that an illegal immigrant run was to be made the following night " somewhere between the Thames and Lowestoft ! " |
| 23 | On reinfection , this response is more marked , the nodules reaching 2.0 cm in diameter and containing greenish eosinophilic pus and an L4 . |
| 24 | Colbert had curly red hair and an aptitude for getting into scrapes . |
| 25 | Among newly-invented cheese dishes which seem to me worth a trial are a French Welsh Rabbit and an Anglo-Irish fondue . |
| 26 | Peering through the filthy window , they saw an empty room littered with small rubble , several pieces of broken dust-covered chairs and an old table , but no sign of life . |
| 27 | Each governing body selected will be expected to provide a top senior coach and an assistant coach . |
| 28 | This device is a spatial filter with two antagonistic inputs , an excitatory input from a narrow central region and an inhibitory input from a broader region that covers the centre but extends beyond its boundaries . |
| 29 | The developing countries with a surplus agricultural production but an energy deficit , such as Brazil , Sudan , and Thailand , are likely to have the strongest incentives to develop large biomass energy programmes in order to reduce their dependence on imported energy . |
| 30 | The Conservative government of Harold Macmillan responded with various novel proposals , including indicative economic planning and an application to join the European Economic Community . |