Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour .
2 Debbie Scott ( 19 ) , who is now training to be a hairdresser , says her education suffered because of the emotional upset caused by the bullies .
3 Each FOND refers to the members of a family that are present within a file , be it the System or a Font/DA Mover file — also called a Suitcase .
4 One line of evidence connecting manual activity and symbolic language processes concerns cases of " signing aphasia " in the deaf This refers to the deficit shown by those individuals who have learned to use their hands to communicate in sign language and subsequently sustain brain damage which impairs this ability .
5 I can remember hardly anybody 's names that I served with in the Signal section in eh in Colchester , ca n't even remember the officer 's name , the if people left somewhere erm , south of Colchester in Essex well it was quite quite and eh , he , we use to go out there and play , play a village team football , you know and have a , have a right have a right old do in the evenings .
6 There 's no budget provision , and as a consequence approval is being sought for that some to come from the contingency .
7 In the standard b -boundary construction , the Riemannian manifold is the bundle of frames over space-time having a positive definite metric induced by the affine connection .
8 The party 's total vote was just half that given to the Communists in a similar number of boroughs .
9 After correcting for this imbalance by the direct standardisation method , the recurrence rate in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients ( 15% ) was only half that seen in the other two groups ( 30% ) although this difference still failed to reach statistical significance .
10 For 1987 the statistics show that there were some 20,000 accidental deaths , of which some 7,000 occurred in the home , 6,000 at work , and 5,000 on the roads .
11 Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million .
12 Conventional , unconventional : in the last half-hour of 1979 several of Liz and Charles Headleand 's guests attempted to formulate what , for them , had seemed to be the conventions of an eclectic , fragmented , purposeless decade ; some attempted to prophesy for the next .
13 Taking people for a day on a yacht is infinitely more interesting that lunching in a hotel .
14 After some careful sifting on the basis of ability and experience , Muriel was eventually short-listed with two other applicants .
15 Erm I presume that the s are right in saying that this this relates to the display account at at Newark .
16 A central problem that an analysis of the concept of an ontological existent brings to the surface concerns the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity .
17 Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely .
18 Exports of natural gas to the US by pipeline and LNG exports particularly to Japan , are likely to increase to some 30 MTOE by the year 2000 , and even higher levels of export , particularly to the US , are quite possible .
19 A further 22 arrested in the raid on Friday , and 51 detained on the Tottenham estate in the week leading up to it , had been charged and would appear in court at a later date .
20 Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett .
21 I appeal to the people of Burma to economise as far as possible in the consumption of rice and foodstuffs ; so that we may have some surplus to send to a hungry world .
22 About the same size as our familiar British redshank , in breeding plumage it is almost black all over with some paler spotting on the back .
23 Four of Hills ' top six come from the BBC but Eldorado is well down the field at 50-1 .
24 OSF claims 75,000 OSF/1 binaries shipped this year ; 100 DCE source licences and 100 user-level application developers with a further 100 to follow by the end of the year , it claims .
25 We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist .
26 A sensible compromise would be first to use medians to set aside atypical behaviour , and then to apply some form of mean analysis to the median smooth to round off the corners .
27 In this stubborn bent towards the hopefully open-ended ( which he lost before the end ) , Pound may legitimately seem to us more indelibly American than his fellow expatriate , Eliot .
28 In Millom , four children between the ages of 15 and 24 died in the period 1974 to 1980 when only 1–2 deaths would be expected , and a further three died in the period 1971 to 1973 .
29 In addition Mrs scheme at page forty three provides for a further twenty eight hours a week to be provided in some other way , that it is suggested is parental care , but it seems to me that it would either be parental care or hired care .
30 From 1993 , however , the departments will receive their money directly , after the fund has been top sliced to pay for the hospitals ' infrastructure costs .
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