Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My daytime look is very Nicole Farhi — natural fibres , understated , elegant . |
| 2 | The pastry cases are cooked blind ( do not forget to prick the base with the tip of a sharp little knife ) protected with paper ( it burns easily , like all pastry containing sugar ) and filled with dry beans or rice . |
| 3 | Indeed one of the frustrating phenomena many pressure groups of this kind experience is continuing assertions by politicians that they do matter , which is accompanied by minimal concrete action . |
| 4 | Heavy teaching loads are another fact of life for the modern German academics and are often quoted as a bad influence on research . |
| 5 | Understanding of the total care of a patient is not helped by references such as S.O.B. , N.B.M. or T.L.C. In addition , the care plans and progress notes are professional records . |
| 6 | Also arrested in connection with drug smuggling were former OEK senator Hokkans Baules and former House of Representatives member Francisco Asanuma . |
| 7 | A thinner blanket of uranium oxide is one technique being considered to reduce the reactor vessel 's diameter . |
| 8 | The target for income support is five days . |
| 9 | The longest period for which an order book can be issued to an asylum seeker who makes a successful application for income support is 20 weeks . |
| 10 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 11 | For the striped dolphin , until recently the most commonly eaten species in Japan , the mean mercury level was 12 times the maximum allowable level . |
| 12 | The Medical Research Council and National Radiological Protection Board are both contenders . |
| 13 | Britain 's standard recommended by the National Radiological Protection Board were many times lower than some other European countries . |
| 14 | One of the most serious consequences of excessive noise exposure is partial deafness which may progress to a substantial hearing loss and constitute a severe social handicap . |
| 15 | SIB 's concern appears to be that the OTC market is almost completely unregulated and , perhaps more important , that OTC futures are non-standard contracts which can not therefore easily be closed out . |
| 16 | The because clauses that required the more complex inferences were , in general , longer than those that required simple inferences , so the combined reading and judgement times were longer overall for these sentences . |
| 17 | The key lesson of this case study is that order can not be coercively imposed , and that some form of political consensus is necessary if escalation is to be avoided . |
| 18 | Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients — users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates , the company admits . |
| 19 | Erm liaising with the operations manager route speed potential , since we know the route speed is twenty miles an hour , er I felt that probably was n't really a vital item . |
| 20 | Now the first main subject if you like or part subjects is personal allowances because they affect everything that er I 'm going to say . |
| 21 | Although a number of minor Victorian novelists continue to weave romances round great houses ( the popular Heir of Redclyffe [ 1853 ] by Charlotte M. Yonge is one example ) , in the view of the major Victorian writers , Disraeli excepted , the great house had had its day . |
| 22 | β-Thromboglobulin ( MW 35 000 ) is the most abundant specific platelet protein and its platelet concentration is 30–104 times higher than in other tissues ( Ludlam , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Ludwigia perennis is another species from Sri Lanka and India which does extremely well under submerged conditions . |
| 24 | The majority of National Certificate candidates are 17 years old or less ( 61% ) . |
| 25 | Surplus radio and electronics shops are another source . |
| 26 | They are paid vast amounts of cash , to wear a little sticky label on their shirts ; even getting a hair cut is big money . |
| 27 | The voltage equation is re-arranged to give the following expression for At : In this example the current excursion , the resistance R is 5.0 ohms , and it is reasonable to approximate the phase current by its average value of 2.0A . |
| 28 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |
| 29 | THE Private Greens League and the Northern Ireland Bowling Association are one win away from a showdown in the IBA Under 25 Inter-Association championship . |
| 30 | The mean duration of ranitidine therapy was four weeks ( SD 3 weeks ) . |