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 He lent considerable sums to the crown , perhaps as much as £50,000 between 1373 and 1376 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It is the same Brian Thomas Jackson who in 1982 was refused a credit broker 's licence because of previous convictions for dishonest dealing .
8 Over the period 1967-89 , average temperatures in the sea increased by between 0.03 and 0.04 degrees centigrade .
9 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 ) .
10 Prayer , whether dramatised in a church or not , usually goes through futile-seeming passages .
11 As well as playing for Quintus , she is now also principal clarinetist with the City of Oxford Orchestra .
12 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 !
13 They say that by following basic advice illnesses , such as sore throats and diarrhoea , can be avoided .
14 But it ca n't do anything about dry or damaged hair .
15 Francis and Wollen have also contributed articles ( one each ) both of which appear in both books as introductory statements on the Situationist International .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 Although the available evidence argues against a role in germinal vesicle breakdown , these calcium spikes might control associated events such as cytoplasmic maturation .
19 Amateur Rugby League : Uphill battle for armed forces
20 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 .
21 Police warned against approaching Richard Sean Hyland , 26 , from Kentish Town , London , who was serving four years for armed robbery .
22 All the mobile guns working for Armed Response are white .
23 The Court therefore excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police and went on to quash Samuel 's conviction for armed robbery .
24 Intruder jets from the aircraft carrier Ranger , and Cobra attack helicopters scoured the area for armed men .
25 Police have launched a nationwide hunt for Moore , who has served a jail sentence for armed robbery .
26 NATO will now plan opening up a land corridor to the beleaguered city of Sarajevo for armed relief convoys .
27 This time , the Daily Mail was reporting his conviction for armed robbery .
28 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 ’ .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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