Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 500 turbulent years ’ in another epic . |
| 2 | Ostensibly designed to help poor African consumers , the beef programme is really aimed at helping rich European farmers . |
| 3 | His father was a farmer with advanced agricultural views who lived until the age of 88 , so that his son , who farmed with him , had ample time and restless energy to travel the country and buy pigs , sheep , horses and cattle with the aim of deliberately improving them . |
| 4 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 5 | With the exception of the penguins there are no specific feeding times . |
| 6 | Persistent total weedkillers will kill all plant growth , perhaps for six months or more . |
| 7 | The strange metallic noises continued at intervals , whenever he was in a position to hear them . |
| 8 | Western intelligence estimates range between 20,000 and 35,000 armed men . |
| 9 | The normal stabilising mechanisms are out of control and the whole cortex becomes involved . |
| 10 | With its extensive introductory articles and detailed references , emphasised by illustrations of comparative gold boxes or designs from major museums and private collections , the book represents a summary of present knowledge about the art of snuff boxes . |
| 11 | We note especially the deeply entrenched hierarchical roles in the health professions , the potential for conflict between health and social services personnel , who each control key resources which the other needs , and the effects of gender on individual interactions . |
| 12 | As well as these acute metabolic derangements found in diabetes producing acute effects on platelet function , other factors known to influence platelet function in non-diabetics may be operative in the diabetic population under study , such as the presence of vascular disease , ingestion of aspirin-like substances , exercise , smoking , and the use of the contraceptive pill . |
| 13 | Who is that munching cashews on the tape . |
| 14 | This is one of the four possible three-element models all of which are analyses in ( MP ) , Chap.3 . |
| 15 | In total nearly 400 data sheets were completed , which , with our questionnaires and the CRUS questionnaires , as well as further material supplied , provided very extensive anecdotal comments and examples of practice , as well as statistical information . |
| 16 | It is worth noting that there are few narrow political aims involved , and that repeated reference is made to ‘ our country ’ : East Germany . |
| 17 | All patients except one were women , aged between 24 and 59 years , who received low total doses of gold salts ( 74–485 mg ) before recognition of enterocolitis . |
| 18 | The administrators rely on threats of dire consequences for the firm as a whole but generally are more committed to the firm ( having weak professional institutes — if any ) and are less marketable should they want to change jobs . |
| 19 | Since they are analysts not practitioners , sociologists , writers and journalists all have relatively weak professional organisations in bourgeois democracies though , given their different working conditions , the NUJ is much stronger than the BSA or PEN . |
| 20 | It is important to remember that management techniques such as time and motion study , financial controls etc are used by high producing managers ‘ at least as completely as by the low producing managers , but in quite different ways . ’ |
| 21 | It is also unclear whether the increased apical membrane K + and Cl - permeabilities result from activation of latent transport systems or , alternatively , from insertion of a separate class of K + and Cl - permeable cytoplasmic vesicles into the apical membrane . |
| 22 | Aster x frikarti ‘ Mönch ’ , one of the finest perennial plants |
| 23 | The aquatic plesiosaur was first described in 1821 and soon afterwards an almost complete skeleton was unearthed from the rich fossil-bearing rocks of Lyme Regis in Dorset . |
| 24 | More than 75 modified nucleosides have been isolated ( 1 ) . |
| 25 | Intact cellular biolayers that have been used so far have lacked the organisational structure for a rapid , coordinated , amplified response that exists in natural intact biosensors such as retinal rods and cones and olfactory receptors . |
| 26 | The simplest cultural dimension is to use local authority administrative areas but these often lag behind significant changes in population composition , and although Robertson 's ( 1961 ) classification already outlined , defined 75 per cent of the areas as rural-urban , she was also able to comment that this reflected not only the extent of the outward movement from towns , but also the inadequacy of the census definition of rural population , namely all persons living in administrative Rural Districts . |
| 27 | Industrialists do not want to return to Labour party policies because they know full well that that would mean Front-Bench Labour Members taking decisions instead of them . |
| 28 | Order Code : 7460 Total Disks : 1 |
| 29 | The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty ( TCA ) — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Surinam and Venezuela — took place in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz on Nov. 7-8 . |
| 30 | If the UK government has not signed the Agreement on Social Policy by the time it comes into force , it will be possible for the Commission to present a revised proposal including those mentioned above , which could then be adopted by a qualified majority of the eleven signatory states [ see page 34 ] . |