Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Energy was the release of such power that 2.2 pounds weight of the material , plutonium , could in the event of complete fission produce violent strength in the muscle of physics that was equivalent to the detonation of 20,000 tons of conventional explosive . |
| 2 | In so far as they encourage greater police intervention on picket lines or at demonstrations , and enable them to impose their authority on many aspects of community life , the 1984 and 1986 Acts have profound implications for the possibility of disorder . |
| 3 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 4 | Mr Freeman last week told the committee of MPs considering the Railways Bill that they will not ask private operators to guarantee off-peak services in areas such as Strathclyde covered by passenger transport executives . |
| 5 | From intensive trading arose changes in the life style , values and population structure of local communities , massive over-use of resources , and the need for new economic inputs to maintain northern communities at even a minimal standard of living . |
| 6 | Do you believe that Halloween has any kind of place with the devil or not ? |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , the Prince of Wales ' unprecedented public denunciation in April 1989 of Ceauşescu 's demolitions in Bucharest and his plan to ‘ systematize , rural Romania represented genuine revulsion at the human consequences of the Conducator 's policies . |
| 8 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 9 | Anticipating land reform , poor peasants and agricultural labourers occupied large estates in a number of southern provinces ; several villagers , as in Yeste ( Albacete ) , perished in the attempt at the hands of the Civil Guard . |
| 10 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 11 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 12 | That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London . |
| 13 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 14 | Dahl points out that a person with a low income faces greater difficulty in fighting a campaign than a wealthy person but that money is not the only factor when it comes to winning an election . |
| 15 | The houses and parks in Georgian Sussex represented leisured society at its peak ; their owners lived essentially on the basic work of others but paid for their cultivated sensibilities and elegance with a carefully defined series of public responsibilities . |
| 16 | But the existence — and the prevalence — of this rich variety raises important questions about how children 's reading competence can become a match for the challenge it presents . |
| 17 | These differences between American and European views have ominous implications for deinstitutionalization since , as already pointed out , many chronic patients are poor . |
| 18 | More likely , Sir Patrick 's business will be to continue Mr Peter Brooke 's painstaking attempts to find common ground among Ulster 's politicians . |
| 19 | There is , according to Quinn , no single moment ( or relatively short period ) in which all the different aspects of the company are considered together and then each part given precise goals for the foreseeable future according to some tight , analytical , holistic master plan . |
| 20 | Each part covers one aspect of your beauty and has a wide selection cosmetics and beauty products selected individually for you by our Experts , and a Beauty Report showing how to use them . |
| 21 | Britain 's most destructive storm swept southern England in November 1703 . |
| 22 | Two other political phenomena deserve brief mention in this context . |
| 23 | The introduction of a pressure transducer to determine the temporal variations of weight in the water column above a specific level permitted electrical recorders to be used . |
| 24 | Political proscription drove more Tories into the arms of the Pretender ( amongst them leading figures such as Bolingbroke , Ormonde and Sir William Wyndham ) as their only hope of political salvation . |
| 25 | PHOTOGRAPHER Beth Davidson is among professional artists spending two months in local schools in a brand new arts initiative . |
| 26 | These highly professional artists presented popular programmes of light opera and semi-classical works that seemed to please the thousands who flocked to hear the concerts . |
| 27 | Colchester Borough Council has employed professional artists to produce giant murals on the gable ends of two shops on the town 's Greenstead estate . |
| 28 | With such examples in mind , it is small wonder that developing countries feel equally free to use countertrade when short-term necessity over-rides any sense of the longer term and less certain consequences . |
| 29 | At the 2½ hour meeting , private shareholders raised persistent questions over the auditors ' and the directors ' actions . |
| 30 | The declaration committed NATO members " to support reforms undertaken in the central and eastern European states to establish democratic systems of government " and to " related efforts to create modern competitive market-orientated economies " . |