Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 2 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 3 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 4 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 5 | erm I mean it 's a surely it 's a political decision is it not , I mean there 's been a lot of controversy as you I 'm sure are well aware about the Medley boat station ? |
| 6 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 7 | Thus the political decision was taken to keep all five major steel plants in operation , including the distinctly vulnerable plant in Ravenscraig in Scotland . |
| 8 | COHQ 's plan avoiding a frontal assault was changed when direction of the raid passed to the Army 's UK Home Forces Command , after a political decision was made to replace the marines with Canadian forces . |
| 9 | When it comes to taking time off for work , most of you feel unable to give a truthful reason to your employer , and the usual excuse is a stomach upset or migraine . |
| 10 | But as the debates over possible American intervention in Bosnia showed , there are many cases where such conditions are not going to be met ; where the political case is confused , the endgame a matter of guesswork . |
| 11 | Several case reports have suggested that oral cyclosporin is effective in inducing clinical and endoscopic remission . |
| 12 | However , the real point seems to be that the risk of an uninformed auditor 's being misled after a change imposes a greater cost than the benefit ( unquantified and intangible ) that a compulsory change would provide . |
| 13 | For this reason , the term non-stoichiometric solid is often preferred . |
| 14 | But good planning and advance preparation are the best way to ensure the move is as efficient and trouble-free as possible . |
| 15 | Progressive literature is consistently upheld by Nizan as a process of disclosure centred on reality , Marxism and realism , and designed to advocate the justifiable demands of an aspiring class . |
| 16 | Most individuals experience the urge to defecate on morning awakening and after meals , when colonic motility is known to peak . |
| 17 | Disorders of colonic motility are thought to play a part in several diseases , especially the irritable bowel syndrome , and also ulcerative colitis , diverticular disease , and constipation . |
| 18 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 19 | Unquestioning faith is not always rewarded . |
| 20 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 21 | In extract 15 , for example , Cheryl 's Creole response is to the London English part of Jane 's turn , while Jane 's next turn is an English response to Cheryl 's Creole turn . |
| 22 | In the rabbit population , on the other hand , the balance of economic advantage is shifted towards those individual rabbits that are big spenders on equipment for running fast . |
| 23 | It is important to note that the elimination of the conditioned response is not accompanied by any motor dysfunction ; the animals still blink normally to the air puff . |
| 24 | Usually the greater the similarity between a new stimulus and the conditioned stimulus , the stronger the conditioned response will be , e.g. if the conditioned response is a reaction to hearing the note middle C and you change the note response is weakened gradually . |
| 25 | A base-plate adaptor is available for all the above-mentioned pumps and so — if you need it — is a coarse foam pre-filter . |
| 26 | There is growing awareness that much existing mainstream provision is irrelevant to black and Asian communities . |
| 27 | ‘ A recent in-house survey showed that almost exactly 10% of the students in the mainstream provision were unemployed ( 1300 out of 13,000 ) . ’ |
| 28 | First , their ‘ basic ’ economic function is supplemented by a major role in economic restructuring . |
| 29 | THE station 's prime economic function was as a reception and distribution point for goods of all kinds . |
| 30 | They were largely economic interest groups — that is , their economic function was not yet differentiated from their aesthetic function . |