Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disease activity was assessed in 120 ulcerative colitis patients based on the criteria as outlined by Sutherland et al . |
| 2 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 3 | This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Was your betrothed Matilda 's man ? ’ he went on , still in that frigid tone . |
| 5 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 6 | Geoff Tulloch referred to her as ‘ that frigid bitch ’ . |
| 7 | Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’ |
| 8 | They will work so much better on the day if they are given that advance preparation . |
| 9 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 10 | Terry Eagleton came some way to acknowledging this , in a quasi-refutation of his Althusserian phase , when he included himself among the English Marxist intellectuals who ‘ managed the difficult dialectical trick of appropriating certain Althusserian concepts in blithe ignorance or disregard of their guilty political context . ’ |
| 11 | an enclosed glazed cab with two access doors |
| 12 | An enclosed glazed cabin was provided for the pilot and co-pilot , and a specious interior allowed for a navigation compartment complete with chart table , a wireless cabin , canteen , galley and sleeping berths . |
| 13 | It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides . |
| 14 | Arrivals Volvo 's spirited but dated 940 SE Turbo 36 |
| 15 | Yeah but it 's such a strange bloody house in n it ? |
| 16 | This basic pattern is illustrated by the following , complete four-sentence paragraph ( here split into parts and with sentence numbers added ) . |
| 17 | The position of the MPLA-PT government also appeared weakened by the imminent withdrawal of all Cuban troops under the December 1988 tripartite Namibian independence agreements which had failed to address the conflict in Angola [ see pp. 36380 ; 36479-81 ] . |
| 18 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 19 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |
| 20 | The insufferable Untermeyer in 1923 castigated the texture of The Waste Land as ‘ that formless plasma which Mr Ezra Pound likes to call a Sordelloform ’ ; and in the same year in London , Clive Bell , the voice of ‘ Bloomsbury ’ , said of Eliot that ‘ no aesthetic theory can explain his indiscreet boosting of … the lamentable Ezra Pound ’ . |
| 21 | The revised Investment Business Regulations may reduce the unnecessary administrative burden created by the original regulations , and relaxing the statutory audit requirement for small companies may provide firms with an opportunity to provide their clients with more valuable services , while at the same time reducing their professional risk . |
| 22 | There were frequent complaints that the limits were too low and should be increased more regularly to avoid unnecessary administrative waste , with increasing numbers of applications for extensions , delay , irritation and so on . |
| 23 | A normal haematocrit after 24 hours was present in all subjects and indicated either sufficient oral liquid intake or insignificant fluid loss . |
| 24 | Locally , for example , Thirsk ( 1973 , p. 262 ) notes that ‘ The nature of the farming economy in each agricultural region gave a certain bias to its bylaws ; communities inhabiting the same kinds of countryside upheld some regulations with great fidelity , while others did not ’ . |
| 25 | It was , however , after Mosley 's Olympia meeting on 7 June 1934 that public opinion in general began to harden significantly against the BUF . |
| 26 | In the context of changing national and international social and economic conditions , the maintenance of an inflexible , narrow political framework became increasingly untenable . |
| 27 | Given this rather narrow political agenda the KJHG seeks , however , to address and overcome previous limitations primarily in the following areas : |
| 28 | Success is increasingly determined by quality , the breadth of the model range and low total system costs . |
| 29 | For example , inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease or rheumatoid arthritis may lead to a spuriously high ferritin or low total iron binding capacity even in the presence of iron deficiency . |
| 30 | In the high grade group , 48% had raised erythrocyte sedimentation rates , 28% serum lactate dehydrogenase values over 500 U/l , 24% raised alkaline phosphatase activities , 24% low total protein concentrations , and 16% anaemia ; only 4% of patients in this group had all determinations within normal ranges . |