Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two further years of data will be added to the existing run of 35 years in the archive , a new manual will be prepared for databank users and the project will generate new long-run aggregate series of financial accounts for industries . |
| 2 | But it is seldom that junior staff complain about too much delegation as opposed to too little . |
| 3 | It has golden eagles and wild cats , and a fabulous alpine flora on the high crags . |
| 4 | John installed a filter and later added a waterfall , but a rapid drop in the water level one day spelt trouble and somewhere in the region of 180 assorted fish had to be found a new home . |
| 5 | That deaf people marry other deaf people was not , as could be supposed at that time , a new phenomenon — it will be recalled from Chapter I that John Dyott married a deaf girl after the Civil War in 1645 . |
| 6 | The results probably show that all subjects an relatively unfamiliar with a serial recall task involving signs and that deaf people tend to be sensitive to the language base of speech coding though they do not have a significant facilitation in overt rehearsal . |
| 7 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
| 8 | One manifestation of alienism is that deaf people are not seen by the various professions in education to have a professional view . |
| 9 | whites studying blacks , you know , all those other kinds of imbalances in , in psychology in the social sciences erm which might be interesting erm cos like Guy sometimes says about erm when he was er talking to some er deaf people , well perhaps not talking 's the right word but communicating with some deaf people about their , about their problems , I mean this bloke said you psychologists are all the same you just think that deaf people need cochlea implement |
| 10 | In its most heroic and grandiose form , it proposed no less than this : that working people should take over the industries which employed them and organise those industries into nationwide co-operatives , the whole to be in the charge of one , all-inclusive trade union . |
| 11 | They should thus be open in the evenings and at weekends as well as during ordinary office hours so that working people can attend without having to take time off work . |
| 12 | And that , that eight percent plus could then be paid into your account . |
| 13 | The main difference between them is that private media are used mainly to transmit commercial data and documents , often under conditions of extreme security , while public ( mass ) media are used mainly to broadcast ‘ entertainment ’ , always under conditions of the greatest visibility to the paying public . |
| 14 | Normally a control group and an experimental group are constituted deliberately by matching subjects on relevant characteristics and then randomly allocating one of each matched pair to the control or the experimental group respectively . |
| 15 | Accordingly , in allocating each of the matched subjects to either the control or to the experimental group , and to ensure that there is no surreptitious influence determining this allocation , the researcher randomly allocates one of each matched pair of subjects to one or the other group . |
| 16 | The Assessor 's Department has around 180 full-time staff and its main functions are to compile the valuation roll for non-domestic rates and the electoral register . |
| 17 | The previously-announced £1 billion cost of rationalising BAe 's heavily-loss-making regional aircraft division led to a £1.2 billion pre-tax loss at the aircraft and defence group in the year to December . |
| 18 | He might have to raise rates drastically , to convince sceptics at home and abroad that Labour means to uphold sterling 's parity in the ERM . |
| 19 | ft ) ; vacuum tumble dryers ( 3 to 70 cubic ft ) . |
| 20 | Nowadays his time is spent between his own project work and his team of eight technical staff . |
| 21 | In the early hours of 18 July , Franco sent a telegram from Las Palmas to the eight regional headquarters of the army in mainland Spain and to thirty-one other garrisons . |
| 22 | The North Korean Interim People 's Committee ( NKIPC ) developed in February 1946 as a reaction to the trend of events in the south ; it was meant to assist in the process that would lead to a government for the whole of Korea . |
| 23 | The theme of the drama — that timid people are apt to lead empty lives — must have appealed to Dustin , who was determined to overcome an inherent timidity and lead a fuller existence . |
| 24 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 25 | Massoud Barzani , leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) and of the eight-member coalition of Kurdish opposition groups , the Kurdish Democratic Front ( KDF ) , secured agreement from Turkey and the UK at the end of February that allied aircraft would continue their protection of Kurdistan against a possible attack by Iraqi forces . |
| 26 | It occupies an area of approximately 20 hectares and includes an administration block for the courts and associated administrative staff . |
| 27 | Kiki Smith , known for her often shocking figurative papier-mâché works , has selected four artists who also work with paper for a show on until 15 August at Fawbush . |
| 28 | The eight 500 ft masts are no longer in existence but the rest of the station remains with its 18 inch thick walls and three ft thick concrete floor , beneath which the vital equipment was housed . |
| 29 | First half profit before tax , helped by strong European sales , rose by 21% to £51.1m at Rentokil . |
| 30 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |