Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weak banking structure of the USA was in imminent danger of collapse . |
| 2 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 3 | At present the use of colonic motility tests in clinical practice is limited and will remain so until normal ranges for colonic pressures can be defined and more effective treatments for the various motility disorders identified . |
| 4 | This technique has been utilised successfully in adults to elucidate the pathophysiology of constipation , diarrhoea , and as a clinical test to determine the severity of colonic motility disorder in symptomatic patients . |
| 5 | If the quality is n't high enough for the final product the flexibility gained by using industry standard coding or a page description language such as PostScript means the same file can be passed to a professional typesetting system without the need for re-typing . |
| 6 | British Bio-technology , which employs 70 drug researchers with PhDs , could be valued at up to £200 million . |
| 7 | The commemoration ( now annual ) involved the setting up of over fifty camp sites in the Dorset countryside , complete with tents and catering services . |
| 8 | When the camouflage of this praying mantis fails and a killer is closing in , the insect adopts the last-ditch defence strategy of flashing its wings open and rearing up with its front legs spread . |
| 9 | A full-time Blink line-up of Dermot , Robbie Sexton ( keyboards ) , Brian McLoughlin ( bass ) and Barry Campbell ( drums ) was put together — and then the fun began . |
| 10 | For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub . |
| 11 | And that Spitfire pilot in the photograph in Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 12 | Cheered and keyed up in expectation of the pleasant story-book sight in prospect , her hot hand squeezing the scone in her pocket , she followed the path as it passed under the line of windows , before it skirted the domed conservatory where flowers were grown for the house : cactus , geraniums , gloxinia , palms , bird of paradise , passion-flower , maidenhair fern , all throve here in damp and forceful luxury . |
| 13 | Doctors have given warning that drug abuse in East Lothian is developing into a major health problem with worrying signs of a high level of needle sharing . |
| 14 | His judgment was called into question earlier this year when he sang on a chat show just hours after an IRA bomb killed eight building workers in Co Tyrone . |
| 15 | Those countries that are not self sufficient , who ca n't afford to have erm , er , expensive agricultural support policies in place . |
| 16 | Has not he realised that the CAP is the only agricultural support system under which consumers pay a subsidy to farmers and end up paying more for their food than if they had not paid the subsidy in the first place ? |
| 17 | Agreement on agricultural support measures for 1990-91 |
| 18 | The main issues outstanding were : ( i ) the reorganization of the national finances and the respective allocations to Flanders and Wallonia ; ( ii ) voting rights for French-speakers living in the Flemish suburbs around Brussels ; ( iii ) the reorganization of agricultural support mechanisms along regional lines ; and ( iv ) the allocation of seats to the European Parliament . |
| 19 | Galluim Arsenide fets processed with a special surface deposition exhibit indeterminate switch-on thresholds at low frequencies but work like normal transistors at higher frequencies . |
| 20 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 21 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 22 | In his Lordship 's view , the wife should receive the full sum and in due course account to the Revenue for any tax due . |
| 23 | From the gently misleading acoustic opening chords of ‘ Power Missy ’ to the final screaming guitar frenzy of ‘ Peace ’ nothing is as it should be . |
| 24 | The other face of Milton Keynes … a young population … many feel isolated … crime and vandalism is high … homelessness a growing problem … ironic in a city that boasts a high standard of housing … low rise building with low costs … fuel conscious homes surrounded by green and pleasant land . |
| 25 | The data were acquired using ground-based differential absorption spectroscopy at Arrival Heights , Antarctica ( 78°S , 167°E ) . |
| 26 | EON aka Ian Loveday ( right ) releases his long-awaited debut LP on October 26 entitled ‘ Void Dweller ’ ( Vinyl Solution ) and features previous singles , ‘ Light , Colour , Sound ’ , ‘ Infinity ’ , ‘ Inner Mind ’ , ( featured in the soon to be released movie Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) and ‘ Spice ’ amongst others . |
| 27 | Since 1991 , the CIB has supported the Eastern and Central European banking section of the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 28 | This year , the company has brought out an enhanced system of Plexicushion , the Plexicushion Prestige , a new and innovative development which sees the use of more resilient base coats beneath the conventional Plexipave system . |
| 29 | Charles Dickens had something similar on his mind when , in an embittered flogging essay of 1860 , he accused ‘ The Ruffian ’ of making London 's streets as perilous as a ‘ solitary mountain-spur of the Abruzzi ’ . |
| 30 | The pungent AOR rockisms of ‘ Alive And Kicking ’ , the clod-footed thump of ‘ Sanctify Yourself ’ and the messiness of ‘ All The Things She Said ’ , coupled with wilfully obtuse witterings by Jim Kerr , will still wind up anyone who marvelled at the loneliness at the centre of ‘ Someone , Somewhere In Summertime ’ or the wistful catchiness of ‘ Promised You A Miracle ’ , the Euro-disco made flesh on ‘ The American ’ or even the neon womb-glow of the recent ‘ See The Lights ’ . |