Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the 1983 election had been fought under a system of proportional representation instead of a Conservative landslide in the Commons , the Conservatives would have had roughly 285 seats ( and not 397 ) , Labour 180 and the Alliance 160 , resulting in a hung , three-party , parliament and a scramble to form a coalition . |
| 2 | Under pressure from the High Court some of the councillors subsequently voted to resume normal working but the action was undoubtedly a severe embarrassment to the central government . |
| 3 | For the record , John Browne 's polled 32,195 votes for the Tories in 1987 , Alliance candidate Jock Macdonald took 24,716 votes , Labour 4,028 and the Green party 565 . |
| 4 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 6 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 7 | Key features of geriatrics as a medical specialism are the concepts of assessment and rehabilitation , a concern with multi-disciplinary working and the recognition of the importance of social factors in disease onset and management . |
| 8 | In Poitiers are two churches in particular : S. Hilaire begun 1025 and rebuilt 1165 and the more famous Notre Dame La Grande ( 271 ) which dates from 1130 . |
| 9 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 10 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 11 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 12 | So Labour celebrated while the Tories got stuck in and won the election . |
| 13 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 14 | I 'm bloody authorised and no second thoughts . |
| 15 | And there was her key , its gun-metal grey shaft rusted brown but the handle still gleaming . |
| 16 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 17 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 18 | This was the theory that it kept a Long Kesh compound filled with loyalists as a propaganda exercise to impress observers outside Ulster that it was acting impartially towards both the British loyalist and the Irish republican community . |
| 19 | The key advantages were a very comfortable boot , with a grippy rubber sole and a dramatic reduction of the weight of boot and binding combined . |
| 20 | THE GREAT BRITISH EIGHT AND THE REST |
| 21 | It 's hoped to attract a top professional and a very big money tournament . |
| 22 | John Lukic is a top professional and the best goalkeeper I 've ever played with . ’ |
| 23 | All food is bought fresh daily and the management respectfully request a minimum of 24 hours notice on evening meals if required . |
| 24 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 25 | Hiding at ninth on the bill , beneath stars like Wet Wet Wet and The Christians , the band found themselves on a remake of The Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ , called , with a high degree of originality , ‘ Sergeant Pepper Knew My Father ’ . |
| 26 | Tonight winds will be calm inland but a light southerly breeze over the Clyde estuary and the Argyll coast will keep temperatures there around five celsius , that 's forty one fahrenheit . |
| 27 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 28 | On the handle are three bodies of animals he overcame , the Nemean Lion , the Keryneian hind and the Erymanthian boar , and at the base , the tree with the Golden Apples , two of the Stymphalian birds and the Lernaean Hydra . |
| 29 | Accordingly , where the landlord proves an intention to redevelop not immediately capable of implementation , the court will order the inclusion of a break-clause exercisable when the landlord is ready . |
| 30 | This is especially important when the job is quite high powered and the interview may be rather searching . |