Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures which I have given , I hope , add up to a total for new accommodation of seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds . |
| 2 | The picture in Grampian region is even more pronounced with exports to the European Community accounting for 65% , and those to EFTA accounting for more than 10% of the total , giving a total for Western Europe of 75% . |
| 3 | However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery . |
| 4 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind prices prevailing for completed developments within the LDDC , developers and construction companies have gained enormous profits . |
| 6 | A few years later , Helen Gardner , in her inaugural lecture , lamented the ‘ pressure to publish ’ on people working in English studies : ‘ there is something peculiarly distasteful and peculiarly absurd about forced labour in my field . |
| 7 | GERMANS are not often polite about British managers . |
| 8 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 9 | Sex in private between consenting males over the age of 21 may have been legal since 1967 , but how far have attitudes really changed ? |
| 10 | AI now adopts as POC those ‘ persons who are imprisoned solely because of their homosexuality , including the practice of homosexual acts in private between consenting adults . ’ |
| 11 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 12 | Whatever the merits of Devlin 's position , of the crimes in private between consenting adults which he wished to retain , homosexuality , abortion , incest , pornography and prostitution have either been partially decriminalized or some proposals therefor have been put forward . |
| 13 | Burying her face in Luke 's chest to hide her blushes , Perdita asked him if he knew the Spanish for Super Tampax , and if they could stop for some on the way . |
| 14 | Jamie Delgado 's surname , roughly translated , is Spanish for slim . |
| 15 | It substituted Spanish for Austrian influence in southern Italy . |
| 16 | Blast is still going strong though , perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle . |
| 17 | Scotland 's only new acquisitions during the decade were twenty-one Class 318s , three-car versions of the Class 317 , to service the newly electrified Glasgow-Ayr/Largs routes , although 1989 also witnessed the first withdrawals proper ( apart from accident victims or asbestos units ) of the original Pressed Steel 1959 ‘ Blue Train' Class 303s , whose unrefurbished examples are due for early replacement by 100mph Class 321-type Class 320s . |
| 18 | ‘ … an ’ you 're due for Orderly Officer day after tomorrow . |
| 19 | But already operations on 35 patients due for orthopaedic surgery over the next two days have been cancelled , and more may follow . |
| 20 | ‘ He is due for immediate leave , I seem to remember . ’ |
| 21 | The results of the simultaneous state and local elections in the neighbouring state of Hidalgo were not due for official release until Dec. 2 , but preliminary results indicated that the PRI had won 81 out of the 84 municipalities . |
| 22 | UN force due for Central America |
| 23 | Also due for imminent release is the science fiction film Free Jack featuring Mick Jagger , and the Australian comedy Spotswood , starring Hopkins as a time and motion expert . |
| 24 | ROCKY ERICKSON is the subject of a tribute LP due for imminent release on Fire US . |
| 25 | ROCKY ERICKSON is the subject of a tribute LP due for imminent release on Fire US . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp Alpha and R , Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC and IBM Corp RS/6000 versions will follow , with an Santa Cruz Open Desktop version due for Open Desktop 3.0 later this year . |
| 27 | The record Jennifer refers to is called ‘ Above , Below And Beyond ’ and is due for British release soon . |
| 28 | At a meeting on the estate Darlington council housing officers explained that 37 houses and flats in Eggleston , Dryburgh and Fountains View are due for large scale revitalisation work costing £350,000 . |
| 29 | It was due for considerable internal reform . |
| 30 | They were ‘ overqualified and not cost-effective for small cases ’ . |