Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [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 | Night at any rate you had fine , as we had , with a high clear moon & just a few stars lost here & there among folds of cloud . |
| 3 | The idea of endowment paid to a mother ‘ on account of her motherhood and on behalf of each of her children … is ’ , it was asserted , ‘ entirely opposed to the idea of relief of distress or poverty , because it implies a universal national provision and not a means of making up deficiencies in the incomes of particular families ’ . |
| 4 | However , a few clear intervals may develop , allowing some patchy mist and perhaps a touch of ground frost during the early hours . |
| 5 | She was alone in this isolated house and not a soul knew she was here except that wretched Marie . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | A flight of alarmed mallards rose and I counted 25 before a second similar flock and then a third took to the air . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clearly , the ethical aspects of each preventive trial need consideration , but this should be the responsibility of a central ethical committee and not a matter to be considered separately by many ( perhaps over a 100 ) district research ethical committees that are , in the main , concerned with local clinical research projects . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I sort of pride myself on being a normal human being and not a rock caricature , not pandering to people 's expectations of being psychopaths or cray-ZEE ! people … ’ |
| 16 | Can afford a two- or three-bedroom semi-detached house but not a car |
| 17 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 20 | The home will usually be a converted older house or even a large council house on an estate , and the children will go to the schools , churches and clubs in the neighbourhood . |
| 21 | Because pregnancy was a natural physiological process and not a disease , many of the approved societies administering health insurance benefits felt that women ‘ disabled ’ by pregnancy alone were not entitled to sickness benefit . |
| 22 | John How was a solid good preacher but not a magnet to multitudes . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Vesica piscis became an important emotional symbol and also a practical geometrician 's tool throughout Gothic architecture , sculpture and painting . |
| 30 | 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 . |