Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | Even if those who are living in institutions are excluded , it is estimated that half of old people under 75 and about two-thirds of those over 75 are suffering from a long-standing illness in addition to normal minor ailments . |
| 3 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 4 | Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants . |
| 5 | Some are based on a wrong premise : I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like : ‘ The day you forgot to vote , Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister . ’ |
| 6 | Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages . |
| 7 | But eventually the French are reduced to a small band , and Roland realizes that he did wrong to send his faithful followers to death by his proud refusal to blow the oliphant . |
| 8 | According to information just released , only a quarter of the unemployed are supported by a National Insurance benefit , while two thirds are forced to rely on means-tested schemes . |
| 9 | I have a Turner drum winch ( ex-MOD 1964 ) which i-powered from the starting handle dog Can this be fitted to a 90 County diesel ? |
| 10 | Consequently the question arises , do we wish married and single people to be treated equally regarding their pension benefits and , if so , how can this be achieved in a final salary pension scheme ? |
| 11 | But given that many conceptions of the good do not fit into the individualistic pattern , how can this be described as a fair choice situation for principles of justice ? ( p. 10 ) |
| 12 | I would therefore propose that September 1993 be set as a tentative deadline for the confirmation of events , dates and locations . |
| 13 | It recommended that Section 2 be replaced by a new Act that would define more narrowly the information that was to be protected ; restricted categories would cover confidential material about defence , foreign affairs and currency reserves , information concerning law enforcement and information provided for the government by an individual or private concern . |
| 14 | The English were taught in a different school to the Chinese . |
| 15 | ‘ We just see one leader being cheered by one lot of people , and another being cheered by a different lot . |
| 16 | The possibility that some were produced in a royal secretariat can not be totally excluded , although the evidence for the existence of such an office under Cnut is far from compelling . |
| 17 | There are hints that certain sets of dies were used to decorate pots made from specific fabrics , while some were retained for a later occasion and occur again on another fabric . |
| 18 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 19 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 20 | Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate . |
| 21 | This is bordered by a continental slope which inclines at an angle of around 3–6° towards the ocean basin and which is separated from it by a continental rise ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 22 | This is followed by a lavish one hundred pages of black and white photographs , all based on the set of bronzes owned by the Musée d'Orsay . |
| 23 | This is followed by a slower phase of subsidence promoted by cooling of this mantle material as heat is conducted up to the surface . |
| 24 | This is followed by a 12-minute session on the heavy bag and Davies gets his own back , hammering Eubank 's abdominal muscles with a medicine ball before the session finishes with 20 minutes skipping . |
| 25 | This is followed by a triumphant comeback by the acclaimed animator of the seventies , Caroline Leaf , in her work ‘ Two Sisters ’ ( 1991 ) . |
| 26 | This is followed by a fine performance of the symphony itself , not electrifying , but made satisfying by an unusually full recording made in the New York Manhattan Center in 1961 . |
| 27 | This is followed by a brief introduction and two short chapters on the theory and practice of homoeopathy , the potency to use and what dose to give . |
| 28 | This is followed by a brief and selective representation of the forms of racism identified within the education system . |
| 29 | This is followed by a brief outline of the continental legal system to which critics have turned for a solution to our problems . |
| 30 | This is followed by a decreasing rate of creep with a progressively increasing amount of stress being carried by E 2 until eventually none is carried by η 2 and E 2 is fully extended — diagram ( iii ) . |