Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't needed to offer such a weak plea as a scratched finger after all , Isabel remembered . |
| 2 | A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view . |
| 3 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 4 | I find it impossible to comprehend the scale of this arena , and that afternoon provided a great opportunity to relax in the mountains and let them have their effect on us . |
| 5 | This was a short-term measure while a major reconstruction of the North Promenade followed in 1923/4 . |
| 6 | Beggars ca n't be choosers : better to depend even on dubious private money than a criminal state |
| 7 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 8 | I suspect because Cecil , unlike David Mellor , worked out early on that appearing vulnerable was a far better ace card than a contrived display of clever-clogs defiance . |
| 9 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 10 | What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of placing a substantial number of political appointees at the head of each department when a new government assumes power ? |
| 11 | In practice , you will seldom find it easy to show that you have suffered in that way and , in particular , you are not entitled to compensation to reflect the emotional distress than an unjust dismissal may well cause both you and your family . |
| 12 | If a reinforcer is given every time an operant is shown there is an initial rapid increase in the occurrence of that operant until a steady level of behaviour is reached . |
| 13 | A positive effect means that application of the electrode elicits some vocalisation whereas a negative effect either disrupts ongoing speech or produces an inability to vocalise or to use words properly . |
| 14 | The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes . |
| 15 | Nevertheless there is an increasing tendency for such workers to regard this function as a separate job , not part of food production or handling , to be carried out by other unskilled people . |
| 16 | Jan Alexander Taylor and Patrick Thomas Hayes were arrested on Tuesday , hours after police released film of two men caught on security cameras five weeks ago walking along the street near the Knightsbridge store about 30 minutes before a small bomb exploded . |
| 17 | The accident happened in High Lane when an articulated lorry was in collision with a Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Astra . |
| 18 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 19 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 20 | In April-May 1931 , when conservative forces were at their most vulnerable , the Provisional Government , conscious of lacking a clear mandate until a general election had been held , shrank from attempting a ‘ revolution by decree ’ . |
| 21 | As the hon. and learned Gentleman is asking questions about the management of our prisons , what has he to say about the management of a prison service in which , 12 months after a learned judge advises the Home Secretary to move suspected and convicted terrorists from Brixton prison , they are still there ? |
| 22 | Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received . |
| 23 | You will find that many exploratory techniques require repeated steps before a final fit is found . |
| 24 | PC Andrew Ness , of Tayside Police , told how he had been on the road block looking for another vehicle when a white Cavalier had burst through . |
| 25 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 26 | She adds : ‘ I first became interested in this work when a young boy was referred to me . |
| 27 | It is difficult to see how the government can avoid further changes in the law in order to confront this issue before a major embarrassment occurs . |
| 28 | For the contemporary reality of homeworkers bears as much relation to this scene as a Dutch interior does to a squat . |
| 29 | After a linked exit at 11,000ft there are 45 seconds of free fall when a maximum number of relative flying positions are attempted . |
| 30 | It contains explicit commitments to Euro-federalism , as well as such anathematised pieces of social law as a European minimum working wage and maximum working week . |