Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1960s , partly through its own inner uncertainties and weakness , partly through a torrent of satire and journalistic exposure , the stable base of British public leadership , the pivot of civic culture for generations , was being undermined in government , industry , religion , neighbourhood , and family life . |
| 2 | Soon after work began however , it was found that there were serious problems in making a secure , stable base for the embankment and thus progress was brought to a halt . |
| 3 | It was agreed that retail/service jobs provided neither a stable base for the economy nor decent jobs for the people of the area . |
| 4 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 5 | Out of the newly desperate and ruined petit bourgeois , and those faced with crushing poverty on the dole , Le Pen , the Lombard League and the German neo-Nazis have refound the classic base of racism and fascism . |
| 6 | Although there were no differences in faecal bile acid concentration in those patients with colorectal cancer , total daily excretion was significantly lower than in patients with polyps , an increased colonic absorption of bile acids may in part account for this . |
| 7 | The presence of vitamin D 3 receptors in normala nd malignant colorectal tissue , together with the increased colonic absorption of calcium after small bowel resection , had previously suggested that the colon could be a target organ for 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 . |
| 8 | It is not known whether there is an increase in colonic absorption of PEGs with age in humans such as is seen in rats , and whether this could have influenced the results . |
| 9 | As luminal SCFA maintain normal colonic absorption in acute diarrhoea , the decrease seen in faecal SCFA output may be of clinical significance . |
| 10 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 11 | New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts . |
| 12 | Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 15 | Originally a sial crust had enveloped the earth , but it then split on one side and compressed into the solid mass of the present-day continents . |
| 16 | There is a limit to the size of picture that you can create in this shape , as a solid mass of flowers can lose all sense of size or identity when it becomes too large . |
| 17 | The walls had long ago disappeared under a solid mass of posters and playbills , some of them so old that they 'd faded completely . |
| 18 | Deep in the solid mass beneath her , she heard the laughter . |
| 19 | It is certain that the vice-chancellor in the chair gained the impression from what was said at the meeting that they were forced to elect from a weak field of candidates . |
| 20 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 21 | The staining of the epithelial cells is cytoplasmic , involving the basolateral and , to a lesser extent , the apical surfaces of the cells and EGF can also be seen in the mucus derived from the glandular ducts in many cases ( Fig 3C and D ) . |
| 22 | ( e.g. the polite formality between bank manager and client ) but there is always some scope for challenging and redefining these and hence helping to redefine rules of appropriate behaviour . |
| 23 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 24 | And there were strange parallels in the patterns of their childhood . |
| 25 | In the role of clients , these local leaders bring in their own supporters behind their patron , in return receiving political advancement for themselves and small benefits for the union ( Rothstein 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 27 | The Labour government was bound to take action : indeed there was a coordinated response through the Council of Europe . |
| 28 | It will further be argued that initial teacher training can not be treated as separate from other areas of teacher education and that changes in any one sector will inevitably influence all teacher education provision , initial , probation support and in-service and that in the light of this interdependence , strategies should be established for a coordinated response across the spectrum of teacher education provision . |
| 29 | — Although the flight of insects has been referred to on p. 64 , the coordinated activities of the skeletomuscular system of flying insects need further brief discussion ( Tiegs , 1955 ; Pringle , 1957 , 1965 , 1968 ) . |
| 30 | Reports continued of tacit Iranian support for the Soviet Moslem republics [ see p. 38409 ] . |