Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a helmet bearing a marking applied by the manufacturer indicating compliance with the specification contained in one of the British Standards mentioned in Schedule 2 ( whether or not as modified by any amendment ) ; or |
| 2 | Most people think of hot-rods as modified production cars . |
| 3 | Darren Wigg ( Newcastle ) won the award for 11–12-year-old boys with four first places , and Mark Bewick ( Sunderland ) topped the 13–14 group with a hat-trick of wins . |
| 4 | Apart from certain exceptional cases , a trustee is entitled to no remuneration for his trouble , unless the terms of the trust so direct , and is liable not only for dishonest dealing with the trust property , but for all loss due either to non-observance of the directions in the settlement and the general rules of law , or to failure on his part to act up to the high standard of care which equity and statute law require of him . |
| 5 | Correct forms are regular and simple , e.g. the English language usage by which straight is a metaphor for honest and crooked a metaphor for dishonest . |
| 6 | It is the same Brian Thomas Jackson who in 1982 was refused a credit broker 's licence because of previous convictions for dishonest dealing . |
| 7 | It can also be used in cakes instead of the usual solid fats — as in this wonderful recipe for tangy orange cake ( if you prefer , you could alternatively use soya , sunflower or any other vegetable oil ) . |
| 8 | Prayer , whether dramatised in a church or not , usually goes through futile-seeming passages . |
| 9 | As well as playing for Quintus , she is now also principal clarinetist with the City of Oxford Orchestra . |
| 10 | Honey face saver : legendary as a treatment for ailments such as sore throats and hayfever , honey has also been shown to heal burns and can sort out dry and spotty skin problems , so get stuck in ! |
| 11 | They say that by following basic advice illnesses , such as sore throats and diarrhoea , can be avoided . |
| 12 | But it ca n't do anything about dry or damaged hair . |
| 13 | Francis and Wollen have also contributed articles ( one each ) both of which appear in both books as introductory statements on the Situationist International . |
| 14 | 5 ) The main priority was to develop databases which could be shared between members of the group and used as introductory material for school librarians who had newly acquired microcomputers . |
| 15 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 16 | Although the available evidence argues against a role in germinal vesicle breakdown , these calcium spikes might control associated events such as cytoplasmic maturation . |
| 17 | Amateur Rugby League : Uphill battle for armed forces |
| 18 | The police also found Mr Mandela 's diary , documenting his travels to raise support for armed rebellion , and hundreds of documents which betrayed the plans of Umkhonto . |
| 19 | Police warned against approaching Richard Sean Hyland , 26 , from Kentish Town , London , who was serving four years for armed robbery . |
| 20 | All the mobile guns working for Armed Response are white . |
| 21 | The Court therefore excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police and went on to quash Samuel 's conviction for armed robbery . |
| 22 | Intruder jets from the aircraft carrier Ranger , and Cobra attack helicopters scoured the area for armed men . |
| 23 | Police have launched a nationwide hunt for Moore , who has served a jail sentence for armed robbery . |
| 24 | NATO will now plan opening up a land corridor to the beleaguered city of Sarajevo for armed relief convoys . |
| 25 | This time , the Daily Mail was reporting his conviction for armed robbery . |
| 26 | Once again the Party was preparing for armed struggle and the stunning German victory of 1940 would have appeared to many Vietnamese to be ‘ the moment of great opportunity ’ . |
| 27 | In 1967 , a progressive candidate , backed by the Communist Party , won the elections , but again the military fraudulently imposed their own candidate , The PCS split , with Salvador Cayetano Carpio opting for armed struggle . |
| 28 | Employers refused to recognize their right to negotiate and called freely upon the State for armed support against worker protest , as in the case of the Lena goldfields strike in 1912 . |
| 29 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 30 | What is often overlooked because of Cuba 's active ( although never particularly substantial ) support for armed struggle in Latin America later in the 1960s is that , initially , the Castro regime made consistent attempts to build diplomatic relations with its hemispheric neighbours . |