Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] 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 | However , a few clear intervals may develop , allowing some patchy mist and perhaps a touch of ground frost during the early hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | A flight of alarmed mallards rose and I counted 25 before a second similar flock and then a third took to the air . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough battled every inch of the way to gain a creditable 0–0 draw and only a second leg at Old Trafford now lies between Middlesbrough and their second Wembley Cup Final in two years . |
| 19 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |
| 20 | The Vesica piscis became an important emotional symbol and also a practical geometrician 's tool throughout Gothic architecture , sculpture and painting . |
| 21 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 22 | Next to it was a suit in plain grey worsted and then a mustardy one , a brown pin-stripe , and the dog's-tooth . |
| 23 | This study does not , however , offer any support for the idea that diabetic patients looked after exclusively in primary care have worse glycaemic control and therefore a poorer prognosis . |
| 24 | The general sequence of operation tends to be the same for all types with a pre-rinse , to purge the food residues , followed by a hot caustic wash and then a highly diluted cold acid rinse . |
| 25 | MICHEL ROCARD , the former French premier and currently a contender for the presidency , won support yesterday for a plan call to scrap the battered Socialist Party and build a new centre-left movement . |
| 26 | DNA sequencing , another fundamental molecular genetic technique and increasingly a vital component for identifying molecular pathology in patients , has also become reliant on the reaction . |
| 27 | five thousand pound and either a the diploma or a membership . |
| 28 | Do a range protect on that same range and then a range erase of that same range . |
| 29 | Several authorities have stated that malignant hypertension ( implying the presence of arterial fibrinoid necrosis and usually a diastolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg with retinal changes such as haemorrhages , exudates and papilloedema ) is rare in diabetics and that generally the degree of hypertension tends not to be severe ( Drury , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Identical twins have the same genetic constitution and usually a similar upbringing . |