Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear to the right hon. Gentleman that for him the banner of rights and freedoms that he would wave represents a very different set of outcomes from those in which Conservatives believe . |
| 2 | The only ball that seemed to find the pocket was the white , in a bad dream of in-offs and in-withs — plus , from Julian , a world-class in-instead , the cue-ball struck with such prodigious unintentional sidespin that after a deadened impact it ambled on grimly into the corner bag . |
| 3 | I was appalled to note in Peter Jones 's report today of the Scottish Labour conference that in opposing the proposal to give the Scottish party greater autonomy the North Aberdeen MP , Bob Hughes , could warn delegates against the danger of ‘ being dragged down the back alleys of silly little constitutional issues ’ . |
| 4 | In that sense Britain was not an active opponent of the new attempts at sectoral economic unification that in the early 1950s began with coal and steel . |
| 5 | He could see the longer teeth at the sides of her mouth and the folds of wet black skin that at any moment would draw back in a threatening snarl . |
| 6 | The population has been increasing so fast in most Latin American countries that despite out-migration , the numbers of the peasantry are still on the increase . |
| 7 | And with him comes Ciullo d'Alcamo , whose ‘ Rosa Fresca aulentissima ’ was translated by D.G. Rossetti : ‘ Thou sweetly-smelling fresh red rose/ That near thy summer art … . ’ |
| 8 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |
| 9 | The amount left in the client account in respect of the bill of costs after seven days should only be , therefore , unpaid professional disbursements that from the date of receipt earn deposit interest subject to the de minimis rules . |
| 10 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 11 | She was eleven years old , with a smooth oval face , and deep , dark brown eyes that at the moment seemed far too big for her face . |
| 12 | Players on tour are normally paired together as room-mates , a simple organisational expedient that over the years has created an explosive chemistry of scandal and misbehaviour . |
| 13 | The first is a simple logical point that without some model of how the system might work , there is no way of deciding which of the millions of possible stimuli available to use in testing a particular celt . |
| 14 | Walls and floor and ceiling and benches were all covered in grey soft smooth plastic that against all odds still managed to look grubby . |
| 15 | She ate placidly , acknowledging to herself with her customary good sense that at the moment , as at any time since her brother William had died , she and Penelope were getting no pleasure at all from each other 's company . |
| 16 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 17 | But it 's a problem accentuated in a white ruled society that for decades regarded migrant blacks as temporary sojourners in urban areas , and little was done to accommodate them until influx control laws were removed four years ago . |
| 18 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |
| 19 | Mensheviks in general adhered more strictly to the traditional Marxist assumption that in so backward a country as Russia the impending revolution would bring the bourgeoisie to power . |
| 20 | Fiscally it signified little , for the total tax liability ( inclusive of the loan payment ) remained unaltered at 20 per cent , though there is the important social difference that from this point the proportion of subsidy assessments on landed incomes increases sharply . |
| 21 | Margaret examined the pale-blue Breton sailor hat with the enormous upturned brim that by sheer luck exactly toned with my dress and jacket . |
| 22 | It was part of the same southern European pattern that at the same time Greece shook off one more episode of military dictatorship , and with it the monarchy , and established a democratic republic . |
| 23 | Second , what is the molecular genetic mechanism that in monkeys leads to a near 1:1 ratio but in man to a strong bias in favour of long-wave cones ? |
| 24 | The negative views B. S. Johnson expresses above are fairly widely shared : Malcolm Bradbury points to the existence of a general critical assumption that after the work of the modernists , the ‘ experimental tradition ’ in Britain may simply have lapsed ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 25 | In 1905 J H M Wedderburn proved that every finite division ring is a field , a result which provides the only known proof that in a finite projective plane Desargue 's theorem implies that of Pappus [ 13 ] . |
| 26 | Two separate grounds were advanced in support of the claim , namely , ( 1 ) the broad constitutional point that as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise had no authority from Parliament to impose the charges and the corporation were under no legal liability to pay them the latter should be entitled to recover , and ( 2 ) that the condictio indebiti applied where there was error in the interpretation of a public general statute . |
| 27 | He had small shrewd hazel eyes that as a rule missed nothing . |
| 28 | Editorials regularly refer to the magazine being produced by an all-women team , from the Editress and her fair , brilliant and chivalrous staff , down to the merry-faced ruddy-cheeked little lassie that in quainter and ruder hives of literature would be represented by a grim-visaged imp in paper-cap and corduroys yclept a " Printer 's ( This was typical of its style . ) |
| 29 | He wrote an exposition of Jesus ' saying to the rich young ruler that to be perfect he must sell all . |
| 30 | With a maximum hull thickness of 22cm these boards have a distinctive round underwater shape that at first sight resembles a canoe . |