Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] and [adv] [art] " 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 | The answers are , I suppose , the largest possible tank and therefore the most stable environment for my fish ; ease of maintenance ; an attractive living picture ; and the chance to experiment with the latest equipment . |
| 3 | It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters . |
| 4 | His two-day visit was the first by a French Prime Minister and also the first by any European Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan in January 1957 [ see p. 16042 ] . |
| 5 | In some ways , however , these disputes have been contained because certain scholars have written books on the constitution that have endured to be widely regarded as so authoritative that they define the parameters of acceptable constitutional debate and almost the very constitution itself . |
| 6 | However , a few clear intervals may develop , allowing some patchy mist and perhaps a touch of ground frost during the early hours . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | In the mid-eighties there was the building and opening of this lovely Cathedral and therefore the Guild was again very busy making 13 sets of cream vestments together with 52 Stoles — 13 of each of the four liturgical colours . |
| 10 | For example , if a new part is made from an existing part the new part 's attribute refers to this original design and only the alterations need be stored as the new drawing file . |
| 11 | It also figures prominently today in the work of Michel Tournier , one of the most esteemed voices in contemporary French culture and probably the single most important novelist France has produced since Proust . |
| 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 | This is particularly so in homoiotherms , whose constant body temperature ensures a steady level of functioning in the central nervous system and hence the possibility of extensive exploration in varied environments . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However the lack of any real on-screen help and virtually no graphics capability , the latter is supplied by another module , puts InteCalc about a year behind the times in terms of user friendliness and features . |
| 18 | He was anxious to offer his advice , reasonably and concisely , to the ‘ generality ’ so that the average small gardener and even the collector of herbs might all have their ‘ Miller ’ . |
| 19 | Immediately after the war the Muslim religious leadership and then the communists and leftists , as a National Guidance Committee , attempted to organize a political resistance together . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They reduce the average branching factor and hence the potential combinatorial explosion of paths through the graph . |
| 23 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 24 | His wife , Mary Ann , responded well to the challenge of her changed social position and soon the convict 's daughter was a highly respected hostess . |
| 25 | These later die and so the carbon dioxide eventually finds its way to the sea floor as sediment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 28 | If you touched a picture , there was a brief humming noise and then the food dropped on to a tray in a slot . |
| 29 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 30 | The graph line will at first rise steeply but then start to level off , and one can compute the likely final level and hence the number of dies . |