Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14.7.4 Professional negligence of experts generally |
| 2 | He was crowned European indoor champion in Genoa early in the year and went to Barcelona believing he could reach the 100 metres final and challenge for a medal . |
| 3 | That 's why he is fielding a strong reserve side at Liverpool tonight . |
| 4 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 5 | Well can you put that that tine of biscuits away . |
| 6 | True , it is an altruism grounded in selfishness , but that need not bother us ( it can only lead into the usual teenage casuistry about altruism always being ultimately selfish ) . |
| 7 | At these levels , the complex variation which encodes rich social meanings to insiders simply becomes progressively more and more redundant : it is no longer functional for these mobile people . |
| 8 | Eleven free kicks for fouls already . |
| 9 | Does a disorganised clothing industry with little commercial interest in quality simply reflect our own limited needs and aspirations ? |
| 10 | He took no notice of us , just standing there , gazing at the swirling brown tide of water almost lapping his sandals as though lost in the wonder of such a happening . |
| 11 | Given that sexual selection in birds usually acts more strongly on males than females , we predict that the reduced role of sexual selection in the evolution of long forked tails should mean that these generally exhibit lower sexual dimorphism in length than do long graduated tails or pintails . |
| 12 | So he got the barn and he he had it in a peedie pail you see and he was on his road home and he was coming by this that hillock at Yensetter there . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've seen some awful things in Britain recently . |
| 14 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |
| 15 | Having survived these and further political turmoil at home today 's DGSE has emerged remarkably unscathed . |
| 16 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 17 | The recent trend towards ‘ super-ministries ’ taking on several different but related areas of policy has made this political division of labour particularly important . |
| 18 | In his April 2 speech dos Santos accused the rebel Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) of violating the May 1991 peace agreement [ see p. 38180 ] , saying that UNITA members had carried out " acts of barbaric and gratuitous violence " , and that UNITA had prevented free political activity in areas still under its control . |
| 19 | Firstly , the results may simply be due to chance since a search for clusters is likely to reveal some spatial aggregations of cases even if there is no causal explanation : this is particularly true if the age groups , areas , calendar periods , and diagnostic groups to be studied are not specified in advance . |
| 20 | Hughes took the British junior team to Austria earlier this year , and the BJA has agreed to employ her as a part-time coach when she retires after the Commonwealth Games . |
| 21 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 22 | And I 'll show you basically The the theory is that you go inside In fact I can show you with this this kind of window here . |
| 23 | By and large , planners were associated with incomers in that they wished to control the way things were done , viz to impose rules where there were none before and to replace the old social norms by fiat instead of the usual agreement between households . |
| 24 | Mr Beveridge told my colleague Bryan Rostron : ‘ I think from time to time one is brought in for overseas work in parts of the world where the old English system of justice still applies . |
| 25 | With plenty to read , I hope you enjoy this week 's issue and , as a tantalising PS — look out for news of more smashing free gifts in WOMAN later this month . |
| 26 | There are very few French employers in Scotland apart from tyre giant Michelin , which has a large factory in Dundee , Pernod Ricard which owns several distilleries and drilling rig builder , UIE Scotland , which is a subsidiary of Bouygues Offshore . |
| 27 | So this some sort of deal perhaps there which we think is a reasonable an and fair balance in the end of the committee . |
| 28 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , at the age of 34 , is unofficial favourite to win back the National Top 12 title at Clacton-on-Sea today from Alan Cooke . |
| 29 | ( There may be some different restrictions on usage here in different varieties of English , and there are also some interesting ambiguities ; see Chapter 2 below and Fillmore , 1975 . ) |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll sort through some old copies of Stage then , ’ Mr Stanley replied , ‘ see what I can find . |