Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chapel 's striking chancel arch was another matter . |
| 2 | But perhaps more typical of European electronics companies were those with revenues of between one billion and a few billion dollars that experienced an ‘ identity crisis ’ in the 1980S . |
| 3 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 4 | The total fighting force is some 18,000 , which would probably mean a figure of about 72,000 for the whole migration . |
| 5 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 6 | More common than purely basaltic lava volcanoes are those comprising a mixture of tephra and lava . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The Cambrian Coast Express is all but full while other trains are reporting that the first-class accommodation is full while other facilities are filling up . |
| 8 | Old computer printout is another possible source . |
| 9 | Between 1547 and 1552 , a series of parliamentary statutes ushered in major doctrinal and liturgical change ; restrictions on the reading of the scriptures were ended ; the fifteenth-century heresy laws were rescinded ; all remaining chantries were dissolved ; and clerical marriage , communion in both kinds , and the use of a Protestant English Prayer Book were all authorized . |
| 10 | One example : French and British aerospace exports are all invoiced in dollars . |
| 11 | RIGHT Intelligent and loyal , the German Shepherd dog is another breed which , like the Rottweiler , has gained a bad reputation in the popular press . |
| 12 | The social action programme is another example of the Labour party 's naive employment policies . |
| 13 | Like Ruhleben , one British internee camp was another racecourse , Lingfield . |
| 14 | A reason why a pattern of vertical stripes might have been selected as a social bonding device is that attachment takes place most strongly during periods of grooming ( right ) and this involves a zebra bending its neck creating vertical folds in the skin ( below ) ; the bold stripes could have evolved to augment and elaborate these dark lines . |
| 15 | Theoretical transfer pricing is all very well , but in practice not many companies will know their marginal cost and revenue functions . |
| 16 | Theoretical transfer pricing is all very well , but in practice not many companies will know their marginal cost and revenue functions . |
| 17 | In the heart of Vienna 's most popular shopping area is this traditional four-star hotel . |
| 18 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 19 | The English Tourist Board 's half of that erm is designed to persuade us , to persuade the British that erm is the year that we should discover Britain , this is the year that we should stay at home and take our holidays in the view of everything that 's happened , and in view of prices overseas . |
| 20 | The medieval craftsman tradition was such an important part of Northern painting . |
| 21 | The exciting skiing jobs are few and far between . |
| 22 | As the high water mark was half up to what we call the outer bogs at Houseby . |
| 23 | ( 1987 ) in their efforts to provide training that would maximize the effectiveness of indigenous paraprofessional social service workers was that such training should specifically seek to strengthen those very attributes that enable them to maintain contact with and work effectively in their own communities ( p. 15 ) . |
| 24 | An interesting example of a different type of social service institution is that concerned with the provision of livelihood for those unable to earn by reason of sickness , disablement , lack of work , or above all , age . |
| 25 | Some news in brief now — an English High Court judge is this afternoon visiting a farm at the centre of attempts to sue chemicals firm Re-Chem . |
| 26 | Consequently urban-fringe farmers find themselves taking unusually thorough measures to defend their land against intrusion — extra barbed-wire fencing along boundaries and footpaths , an unsightly rash of warning notices and even electronic detection devices are all employed . |
| 27 | Anti-racist training is one such area and training for social policy work is another . |
| 28 | However the nature of selling in industrial , commercial and public authority settings is that long-term relationships are established and both parties become dependent upon each other , one for reliable supplies and the other for regular custom . |
| 29 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 30 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |