Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basketball : Roberts walks tall to fell Giants |
| 2 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
| 3 | Children should be enabled to understand the codes and conventions by which meanings are represented in documentary and fictional accounts , narrative and argumentative texts , and so on . |
| 4 | In the first place , by juxtaposing novelists with social commentators , it becomes evident that fictional accounts are not exaggerated , but often the reverse . |
| 5 | New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts . |
| 6 | At the end of August , Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust had its portfolios invested as follows : 0.9% Mexico , 2.6% Chile , 14.2% Brazil , 11.6% Hong Kong , 3% Indonesia , 9.6% Philippines , 8% Singapore , 8.1% Thailand , 7.6% Malaysia , 1.8% South Korea , 0.2% Hungary , 9.3% Turkey , 5.8% Greece , 5.7% Portugal and 11.6% liquid investments and cash . |
| 7 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 8 | One of the problems facing physicists who sought to apply general relativity to these newly discovered or hypothetical objects was to make it compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 9 | The staining of the epithelial cells is cytoplasmic , involving the basolateral and , to a lesser extent , the apical surfaces of the cells and EGF can also be seen in the mucus derived from the glandular ducts in many cases ( Fig 3C and D ) . |
| 10 | . a short drive from the capital , is one of the Punjab cities where Nawa Shariff is strongest . |
| 11 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 12 | And there were strange parallels in the patterns of their childhood . |
| 13 | From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial . |
| 14 | After Cambrian times , most of the sediments were derived from within the Welsh Basin . |
| 15 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 16 | This set in motion a host of coordinated activities , among which was the study of grassroots/traditional communication for the Intercultural Panel . |
| 17 | — Although the flight of insects has been referred to on p. 64 , the coordinated activities of the skeletomuscular system of flying insects need further brief discussion ( Tiegs , 1955 ; Pringle , 1957 , 1965 , 1968 ) . |
| 18 | Its influence in the United States was largely the result of the work of C. S. Peirce , William James , and John Dewey who , by challenging the prevailing conceptions of knowledge , tried to redirect the course of philosophy . |
| 19 | Still others have argued that women 's oppression in capitalist societies is to be explained primarily at the ideological level as a result of the prevailing conceptions of passive and dependent femininity . |
| 20 | This process , whilst seemingly disruptive , is more akin to unravelling or undoing a complex structure in order to better understand its make-up , but in doing so to express differences in terms of juxtapositions or comparisons , rather than seeking a unitary , univocal dimension based on hierarchical values . |
| 21 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 22 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 23 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 24 | Old perennial herbs should also be dug up , and only the youngest parts , at the edge of the crown , replanted . |
| 25 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 26 | Measurement of faecal excretion of Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been used to assess disease activity and has been shown to effectively distinguish active from quiescent Crohn 's disease and to correlate with other clinical and laboratory activity indices . |
| 27 | After injection of the labelled leucocytes , radioactivity on the abdominal scan was distributed so that spleen>liver>bone marrow ; in some cases , urinary bladder activity also appeared . |
| 28 | Variations in the uptake of labelled leucocytes in these organs have been reported and patients with inflammatory bowel disease may have associated hyposplenism which may affect the splenic uptake . |
| 29 | In many parts of the world , we have developed innovative policies on quality and customer service . |
| 30 | Innovative policies during the campaign raise doubts over existing policies , and raise questions over why reforms were n't introduced earlier . |