Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designer attempts to reduce friction as far as possible , so most stepping motor systems have very little inherent damping and consequently a poorly.damped single-step response . |
| 2 | Although the Romans maintained a number of marching camps across the Lowlands such as those at Pennymuir , Roxburgh , and Glenlochar in Kirkcudbrightshire , signal stations on heights such as the Eildon Hills , and sentinel forts substantially reinforced at one time and another , these were subjected to repeated tribal attacks and occasionally a combined assault . |
| 3 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 4 | A broad constitutional framework is created , with a limited number of mandatory requirements , some optional features and then a range of matters on which the framework operates unless the related contract specifically provides otherwise . |
| 5 | However , there are still quite a few rather heavily marked White Parks and sometimes a completely black calf is thrown , which is never the case with the pure Chillinghams . |
| 6 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , in that case , ’ he replied , ‘ I shall certainly need some more piccolos and probably a couple of flutes ! ’ |
| 8 | However , a few clear intervals may develop , allowing some patchy mist and perhaps a touch of ground frost during the early hours . |
| 9 | Course adjustments may be put into effect immediately in the case of full-time courses , while , in order to protect the interests of part-time students locked into the Institution 's examination programme , adequate forward notice and even a transitional period with parallel diets , have had to be offered . |
| 10 | Mark Ogilvie-Grant , another Athenian pen-friend and later a friend of hers , echoed my thoughts when he said : ‘ … a good book , but she did n't write it ’ . |
| 11 | In Britain today we have different criminal laws and hence a different range of crime from those which once existed . |
| 12 | A flight of alarmed mallards rose and I counted 25 before a second similar flock and then a third took to the air . |
| 13 | Pickering 's second half goal seemed to be giving them three points , but the sending off of Mick Tait for his second bookable offence and then a defensive lapse allowed Stuart Rimmer to score the equaliser . |
| 14 | There are families in whom the two conditions coexist raising the possibility that they share a similar genetic predisposition and possibly a common transmissable agent such as a mycobacterium . |
| 15 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
| 16 | Many were sent to psychiatric hospitals and put in overcrowded wards with real mental patients and only a few overworked nuns to supervise them . |
| 17 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |
| 18 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 19 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 20 | In a company involved in a fast moving technology and consequently a continuous output of new products , this commitment can amount to 30 per cent of total R&D resources . |
| 21 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 22 | ( There are plenty of white working-class boys and even a few policemen who do not hold pronounced racist views . ) |
| 23 | Police on parade , in the absence of marches by a peacetime army , was both a major civic celebration and also a symbol of untrammelled power . |
| 24 | There is no serious dissent from the general proposition that we should have a system which combines a thorough examination of all individual claims , a clear exposition of the criteria against which they are being assessed , all proper speed and then a clear decision , whether positive or negative , and an effective right of appeal before removal for those whose claims have been rejected . |
| 25 | I managed to secure all three volumes and also a copy of the Miracles of our Lord , and learnt much about prayer , and trust in God . |
| 26 | Savary-Miller grading of the oesophageal mucisa was confirmed by biopy specimens taken from all macroscopic lsions and also a few centimetre proximal to them or , if no lesions were visible , from a site 3–5 cm above the oesophagogastric junction . |
| 27 | The government of George I and the Whigs never lost its credibility , but retained the support of a substantial proportion of the traditional ruling class and probably a higher proportion of the mass of the population than is usually realised . |
| 28 | His upbeat — you know how with many conductors this is a great upwards gesture and then a dreadful flop back down — with him there was none of this . |
| 29 | HEFTY IS N't the word for this ; it 's epic listening , all 54 tracks and scarcely a duffer amongst them . |
| 30 | HEFTY IS N't the word for this ; it 's epic listening , all 54 tracks and scarcely a duffer amongst them . |