Example sentences of "[adj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You was in a right moody the other day when I told you |
| 2 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the December inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher intervened and said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 3 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 4 | Though the weapons and equipment are constantly modernised ( the Micks got the new design of helmets two years ago , the new rifles last year , and we are due the new webbing next year ) , Napoleon 's generals would still have recognised the discipline and aggression , as would the Kaiser 's , and Hitler 's . |
| 5 | The killing of Estrada , who had been captured but released unharmed the previous month [ see p. 37372 ] , was believed to be the work of the Medellín drug cartel ; however , as in the previous killings of three leading presidential candidates [ see pp. 36844 ; 37312 ; 37371-72 ] , right-wing paramilitary groups were also suspected . |
| 6 | Broadly speaking , the less social closure there is , the less cohesive the social class grouping will be . |
| 7 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 8 | " One of them went to Australia , " said Clara , " and the other one is married , and lives right the other side of town . |
| 9 | There are two general principles involved in putting right the unsatisfactory situation we have gradually disentangled and thus clarified . |
| 10 | Putting right the poor performer may need an approach from several directions . |
| 11 | But , having said that , there is no system in the world , whether it be in government , outside it , public-sector , private-sector , wherever it may be , which is going to get everything right the whole time . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you help me put right the wicked thing I did to you ? |
| 13 | The relation in Lowland Amerindian societies between power , knowledge , scarce resources and social action is increasingly recognized as a key theoretical area for debate ; and for many investigators who specialize in South American studies they see a critical need for the elaboration of a theory of power ( or various of them ) that would make understandable the non-centralized authority structures of Tropical South America . |
| 14 | The ordinance envisioned a common and compulsory branding system which would make possible the easy identification of cattle from anywhere in the island . |
| 15 | If possible the new pasture should have a good nutritional value ; alternatively some supplementary feeding may be given . |
| 16 | Training will be given and wherever possible the new representative will be thrown in at the deep end . |
| 17 | Exon amplification methods offer an alternative strategy by making possible the selective amplification of functional exons from cloned genomic DNA . |
| 18 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 19 | Hitachi says it has already done a lot of work on the application of image recognition techniques , including the development of a method of automatic Table of Contents generation , which uses the detection of changes in colour distribution to distinguish different frames , thus making possible the automatic analysis of camera work . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman I 'll try and be as brief as brief as possible the economic development strategy programme for nineteen ninety four , ninety five has been reduced in the light of the review of the activity concerned with the prosperity and consultation and with widely increased organisations and public agencies . |
| 21 | So Marion , back on the boards after the death of her boring solicitor husband some years ago , compressed her lips and maintained as well as possible the stately calm that so well suited her part as the Balkan Countess whose family jewels were stolen in this season 's Salt and Pepper offering ( Robson the butler was the master crook , in league with the Countess 's French maid ) . |
| 22 | Consider the statement that good weather in c ] de possible the early appearance of my snowdrops . |
| 23 | One measure of a successful department will be its primary/secondary links in terms of the frequency of consultation between phases , the level of joint planning between them and where possible the coherent management of a cross-phase unit of study . |
| 24 | ‘ Digital technology makes possible the simultaneous transmission of multiple conversations and other data over the same lines . |
| 25 | But with the assistance of a Warrington watchmaker , John Kay , he invented improvements to machinery used in the local cotton industry , and in 1769 patented a spinning frame , which made possible the mechanical spinning of the warp , whereas the early Spinning Jenny was only suitable for spinning the weft . |
| 26 | Reflect as closely as possible the normal reporting structure of the organisation . |
| 27 | The time was ripe for such an approach , because progress in chemistry was just beginning to make possible the effective study of very large molecules such as those that formed the main constituents of chromatin . |
| 28 | It had been Conneau who , in fact , had made possible the famous escape in 1846 by maintaining the pretence of his patient 's illness on the appointed day , thereby preventing the prison governor from making his daily visit . |
| 29 | It is this width of opinion and preference , and the infinite variety and ability of the rose to supply and please all tastes , that makes possible the incessant striving to breed , introduce and sell something new . |
| 30 | Stamp duty on most house sales was effectively suspended for eight months ; building societies and banks agreed to put up some £750-£1,000 million for rent-back or similar schemes to help mortgage payers who were in difficulties ; and legislation was to be introduced to make possible the direct payment of mortgage interest by the government to lenders where borrowers were in receipt of ( social security ) income support . |