Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostensibly designed to help poor African consumers , the beef programme is really aimed at helping rich European farmers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the exception of the penguins there are no specific feeding times . |
| 5 | Persistent total weedkillers will kill all plant growth , perhaps for six months or more . |
| 6 | The strange metallic noises continued at intervals , whenever he was in a position to hear them . |
| 7 | The normal stabilising mechanisms are out of control and the whole cortex becomes involved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is one of the four possible three-element models all of which are analyses in ( MP ) , Chap.3 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that there are few narrow political aims involved , and that repeated reference is made to ‘ our country ’ : East Germany . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Firstly , the causes of mental handicap are clearly extremely — perhaps unceasingly — varied , covering genetic problems , diseases and infections , pure accidents , abuses of the body , inherent metabolic disorders , and many unknown causes . |
| 24 | While there he tried to form the Labour Church Settlement , a community to function as a centre of intellectual and cultural life for the surviving Labour churches . |
| 25 | He was the former Republican leader in the House of Representatives , and had been chosen as Vice-President for his reputation for honesty rather than for any outstanding political qualities . |
| 26 | Not renowned for outstanding political skills or vision , Obuchi was known principally for his antipathy to Ozawa and his unswerving loyalty to Takeshita . |
| 27 | Premadasa met with the leaders of anti-LTTE Tamil groups in Colombo on July 13 and 26 . |
| 28 | Eight escuelas normales ( for teacher training at primary level ) were created , twenty-one secondary schools were constructed with international help , along with two technical agricultural institutes . |
| 29 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 30 | Donald Dewar , Labour social security spokesman , said : ‘ How can the Government claim to be protecting the less well off when the rise in the number of those on income support is directly the result of its own failed economic policies ? ’ |