Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | an enclosed glazed cab with two access doors |
| 2 | It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides . |
| 3 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 4 | As I walked in the door I was greeted by a new son and a strange emotional mixture of delight and disappointment at not having been there . |
| 5 | Its magnetism is not only spiritual — in some quarters the rock pegmatite has a strange distorting effect on compass bearings . |
| 6 | His mistake was to assume that the Labour party would provide a more receptive political vehicle for his ideas than the Conservatives . |
| 7 | Classes in the faculty are normally conducted in New College , a striking historic building on the Mound in central Edinburgh which includes the largest theological library in Britain . |
| 8 | The strong rural support for the Party is recognized by a call for ‘ a realistic return for the farming community , with special measures to offset the disadvantages , especially in the intensive livestock sector , resulting from our isolation from Great Britain ’ . |
| 9 | Unless the leaky Government machine has failed to function by spewing out the usual advance warning of announcements in the pipeline , it seems unlikely that the deadline will be met — reflecting the complexities of trying to make rational long-term decisions in energy markets dominated by short-term thinking . |
| 10 | She found him behind a tall potted plant in the far corner where , she suspected , he had been deliberately steered by the proprietor in order that as few people as possible should be aware of his presence in the establishment . |
| 11 | Top price in the dairy section was £1,340 for a calved Friesian heifer from W J Kirkland , Dungannon . |
| 12 | And when he suspected that among his askaris , there existed ‘ turned ’ terrorists whose hearts were not with their new masters , he showed no compunction in disposing of the ‘ problem ’ , favouring his tested method : ‘ drops , shot and burnt ’ , otherwise referred to in his absorbing unpublished testament as ‘ the usual manner ’ . |
| 13 | And they got the usual terse rejection-slip to that effect . |
| 14 | Quiet holding notes and fairly stationary filling-in parts constitute the main part of the duty of the horns , as any score will show , but we shall see later on that they are also very useful in doubling other instruments when it is desired to give ‘ body ’ and prominence to a broad melodic line in the tenor register . |
| 15 | They always first-named each other in the bank , part of the family atmosphere New York insisted on . |
| 16 | It followed from this that real international peace could be attained only through far-reaching political reform within the European States and the weakening or destruction of the monarchical , aristocratic and military influences which had hitherto dominated them . |
| 17 | ‘ Naturally we at the centre are very pleased at having developed the most advanced bionic arm in the world . |
| 18 | Two million cells in 3μl were slowly injected under ether anaesthesia through the right frontal skull into the subarachnoid space using a 10μl Hamilton syringe . |
| 19 | ‘ The interior of the carriage is lined throughout with delicate blue satin , wadded and tufted , and the angles finished with broad fluted pilaster of the same elegant material . |
| 20 | I start up the engine again and move on , staying within fifty metres of the shore , which is the usual feeding range of the local otters . |
| 21 | Talks between Israel and Lebanon focused on conditions for a possible Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon . |
| 22 | By May 1946 a constitution had been drafted which suited the Communist-Socialist approach to politics , with a strong lower house of parliament . |
| 23 | Gen. Aoun suffered a serious setback on Feb. 17 when LF militiamen overran Adma base ( north of Jounieh ) , the sole Army-held pocket in the northern LF territories . |
| 24 | A bicycle wheel fitted into the rail slots perfectly , with disasterous results as Yanto had often discovered after the odd liquid lunch at the Sharpness Hotel . |
| 25 | It meant a person who was not paid , was probably a close relative and had a strong emotional involvement with the person receiving care . |
| 26 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 27 | Some of the women with a high specification of standards and routines in the present sample did , indeed , demonstrate a strong emotional involvement in housework and their ‘ guilt ’ , ‘ worry ’ or ‘ anxiety ’ about failures to meet housework standards does suggest some of the obsessional symptoms manifested by the patients in Cooper 's survey . |
| 28 | We know this because sometimes we may use a word which we ourselves consider innocuous , only to find that it produces a strong emotional response in someone else . |
| 29 | He said that we had proposed setting up , through the Western European Union , a European reaction force but that a number of our partners within the member states had a strong emotional attachment to the idea of a common European defence policy associated with the European Community . |
| 30 | However , it was possible to invoke a strong emotional reaction by drawing attention to the obvious fact that the paying patient could get a better and faster service than his National Health counterpart . |