Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Dennis Hopper 's crazed murderer — together with Isabella Rossellini 's tortured spouse , Kyle MacLachlan 's clean-living small-town kid and his belle , Laura Dern — make Blue Velvet an alarming and disturbing film .
2 Why , cos I got stuck there that 's why , it was a bloody awful day if you ask
3 got up and went to work and had this bloody awful throat and I thought ,
4 The extreme complexity of the enteric nervous system with its non adrenergic non-cholinergic neurones and its connections with the autonomic nervous system and higher neural centres precludes a simple explanation for the effects of autonomic neuropathy on constipation .
5 We have a need for regional economic initiatives and what help do we get from the British Government , right ?
6 Describing the homes and environment of rich Spanish counts and their sisters is not my style .
7 This represents in our view a major gap in the strategic policy framework for such an extensive rural county and one which is becoming increasingly in need of filling .
8 She said it courteously , using the same polite professional tone that he was using himself , all the time hating the fact that he never teased her now .
9 The powder was a pretty strong absorbent mixture and I felt sure it would do the trick , but a week later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again .
10 Her features were too irregular — large brown eyes , a small tip-tilted nose and a wide mouth which broke into an odd lop-sided smile when she was happy .
11 Ignoring the foundation of the European Economic Community until it was too late to join on favourable terms , Britain lost its position as a first-class trading power without even noticing .
12 When these aspects of Nonconformity , its inherent political bias and its identification with Victorian values , led ministers into the political arena , it was not surprising that critics complained : ‘ The men whom the churches care to hear … are the men who speak most loudly upon the current political topics , and who … ‘ play to the gallery ’ and , echoing the gallery 's political watchwords , rouse the gallery to re-echo them in its turn . ’
13 Thus Skocpol sees the state 's autonomy as deriving from the specific political functions that it performs .
14 Increased oesophageal alkaline exposure has been previously demonstrated in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus and it has been suggested that this might be secondary to increased duodenogastric reflux using discriminant analysis in a small number of patients .
15 Nevertheless their rebellion is paradoxical — it may mean a baby and a home and an income , but it also means exile from the culture of their own generation and the political resources available to the employed , respectable working class and its representatives .
16 Joseph Chamberlain as Chairman of the Local Government Board in 1885 was responsible for the Medical Relief ( Disqualifications Removal ) Act which removed the pauper stigma — disfranchisement — from inmates of Poor Law infirmaries who made no other demands on poor relief and increased both use of the infirmaries by respectable working people and their willingness as ratepayers to finance them .
17 Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility .
18 They will rightly look to a Labour Government who will not look at the matter in the narrow economic calculus that we have heard from Conservative Members but will recognise that , unless we are prepared to accept the role of women in the labour force , we will fail as an economy to receive and achieve our full potential .
19 The whole sea seemed alive that night and there was little sleep for the crew , needless to say .
20 Well though the European Monetary System and its Exchange Rate Mechanism were working , economic discipline was lacking in several Member States , causing distortions in the market and upsetting the full and fair play of competition between industries and providers of services .
21 Ignore for a moment the contradiction in the Prime Minister 's simultaneous espousal of an essentially unaccountable German Bundesbank system for future European monetary union and her insistence that the Delors plan for EMU violates Parliamentary control of EC decision making .
22 But give them a solid economic recovery and they 'll forget it ever happened . ’
23 The tall and ever-cheerful Norman Teacher and his paddler Lieutenant Noel W. Cooper RNVR , were launched in a strong onshore wind but got away successfully from the submarine .
24 The village is surrounded by rich agricultural land and there are five farms all bearing the village name — Humbleton Manor , Humbleton Hall , Humbleton House , Humbleton Moor and Humbleton Grange .
25 The Sikh pattern-cutter 's abdomen is examined with a distinctly shaky hand that tries to elicit the signs of a possible perforated ulcer as his family of six stare on with fixed incomprehension .
26 Porter ( 1985 ) , for example , concludes from his extensive economic analysis that there are just three forms of strategy : cost leadership , product differentiation or a market-focused strategy .
27 Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) wo n't happen , nor will the progress towards European political union that it was supposed to advance .
28 In particular , the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty which lies at the root of British democracy can not be squared with European political union as it is currently proposed .
29 What was the total total money that you , that you put on ?
30 We do not know whether those who have received an agricultural education run more profitable agricultural businesses but I imagine most people assume they do .
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