Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 . ’
3 an enclosed glazed cab with two access doors
4 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 .
5 It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides .
6 Arrivals Volvo 's spirited but dated 940 SE Turbo 36
7 Yeah but it 's such a strange bloody house in n it ?
8 This basic pattern is illustrated by the following , complete four-sentence paragraph ( here split into parts and with sentence numbers added ) .
9 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 ] .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 A normal haematocrit after 24 hours was present in all subjects and indicated either sufficient oral liquid intake or insignificant fluid loss .
13 In the context of changing national and international social and economic conditions , the maintenance of an inflexible , narrow political framework became increasingly untenable .
14 Given this rather narrow political agenda the KJHG seeks , however , to address and overcome previous limitations primarily in the following areas :
15 Success is increasingly determined by quality , the breadth of the model range and low total system costs .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Serum samples were obtained from 12 patients with active coeliac disease and seven with non-active disease , and compared with serum samples of 17 children with gastrointestinal symptoms but with a small bowel normal unbiopsy examination and 33 normal controls .
19 But he only grinned , and stretched his legs out luxuriantly , leaning back on the narrow underwater bench that circled the edge of the pool and extending one casual arm behind her head .
20 Acute cellular rejection was treated by short courses of high dose corticosteroids or OKT 3 .
21 The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , paid a private five-day visit to the United Kingdom from March 17 during which he met Prince Charles , the Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern , and the opposition Labour Pary leader , Neil Kinnock .
22 They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets .
23 Oral caecal transit times were not significantly different in the two patient groups , whereas colonic transit was slower in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy compared with the group without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( p<0.02 ) .
24 But is it the same as the hypothetical hypothalamic growth hormone releasing factor ?
25 As I walked in the door I was greeted by a new son and a strange emotional mixture of delight and disappointment at not having been there .
26 The white throats ' singing was even louder , a monotonous scratchy sound .
27 Meryl walked away from the group , having handed the Sunday Shocker to a grateful Norman Pinder .
28 The Government was severely embarrassed by a similar action brought in 1988 by Harriet Harman , now a front-bench Labour MP , and Patricia Hewitt , formerly press secretary to Neil Kinnock , over covert surveillance of them by the security service , MI5 .
29 Signor fragolli was a large man with a deeply lined muscular face and a large hooked nose like a Roman Emperor .
30 You want to produce a high-flying soft-landing shot , so open your stance slightly and open the clubface ( photo 2 ) .
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