Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course this became a grievance and from early days , no doubt , it could be commuted for payment in money . |
| 2 | The poverty index is the ratio of the total income of the household and a multiple of the total income necessary to maintain a family with given characteristics on a nutritionally adequate food plan . |
| 3 | It was in nineteen seventy seven that the European parliament first passed a resolution on voting rights in European elections . |
| 4 | Under STV there are multimember constituencies , with each elector able to indicate a preference on the ballot paper , putting the number 1 beside the name of the candidate most preferred , number 2 against the name of the elector 's second choice , and so on . |
| 5 | Each capacitor first receives a sample , and then passes it on . |
| 6 | It seemed as if , after eighteen months of complete stalemate on the Western Front , with neither side able to make a breakthrough , the subordinate German commanders at Verdun had lost confidence to succeed where so many others had failed . |
| 7 | Institutions established outside the normal administrative structures having broad responsibilities for regional or area development provide at least a theoretical framework able to ensure a degree of coordination between sectoral government agencies . |
| 8 | The sceptical arguments which would have this effect all require a move which the anti-realist would disallow , and hence never reach the annihilating conclusion . |
| 9 | Social Anthropology 2 addresses a range of current issues in social anthropology including symbolic classification , witchcraft and magic , environment and society , gender , and ethnicity and conflict . |
| 10 | Tip : If you want to make this dish hotter add a teaspoon of chilli sauce . |
| 11 | The Foundation 's Annual Report for 1946 outlined its policy on the aged poor : ‘ As machines replace muscles as the motive force , the possibilities of extending useful employment could bring new purpose and new hope to those who have reluctantly accustomed themselves to being a burden ’ ( p. 47 ) In that year the Foundation founded the Nuffield Research Unit into Problems of Ageing , at the University of Cambridge , with the purpose of studying ‘ those changes of human performance in middle and old age likely to have a bearing upon capacity for work in industry ’ ( Nuffield Foundation 1953b : 160 ) , a ten-year project . |
| 12 | This project first develops a methodology to enable the annually-published data on levels of expenditure and provision to be used , freed from distortion by inflation and changed definitions . |
| 13 | The spies were about and a Dominican in some way unknown secured a copy and sent it to the Inquisition at Rome . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the foregoing does express the nature of the situation as it really is and people should be very well aware of it before they decide to start a family or indulge in sexual activity likely to produce a child . |
| 15 | Perhaps to some extent this represents a legacy from Seebohm , a queasiness at what may be inaccurately interpreted as a retreat from the generic ideal . |
| 16 | To some extent this emphasized a definition of community care , used particularly in relation to people with mental health problems , which came to mean a form of care which was non-hospital care and therefore included residential care . |
| 17 | Elaborate wood and iron work , overhanging eaves , portes cochères , and all sorts of architectural ornamentation all conveyed a sense of the romance of travel , identified the station as landmark , and offered the various companies the opportunity to distinguish themselves by particular ‘ house ’ characteristics . |
| 18 | The hypothesis that HMG-box proteins can recognize specific DNA shapes , or some combination of shape and sequence , is strengthened by recent evidence that the HMG-box protein LEF-1 induces a 130° bend in the double helix ( 40 ) . |
| 19 | Other provisions enable police officers to enter private property forcibly without a search warrant if they deem such action necessary to prevent a breach of the peace , reach someone who has committed an arrestable offence or search for evidence of an offence by someone they have already arrested . |
| 20 | Pluto wait : A Japanese freighter due to ship a cargo of highly radioactive plutonium from France is waiting for the material to be loaded . |
| 21 | Class 45 No. 45128 takes a Nottingham bound local past the south exit of Darnall sheds in 1988 . |
| 22 | The standard form 1980 provides a procedure where the client puts forward three specialists whom he would be happy to see used . |
| 23 | Private referral rates among non-fundholders , however , stayed at the same level in the two phases of the study : 27.8 in phase 1 ( 26.7 to 29.0 ) and 27.8 in phase 2 ( 26.7 to 28.9 ) , although as NHS referrals increased in the second phase this represented a reduction of 2.7% ( 1.2% to 4.2% ; χ 2 =12.89 , p<0.001 ) in the proportion of total referrals . |
| 24 | One six year old painted a picture of a strawberry in a murky green in spite of the bright red of the original fruit , and it is usually the red/green part of the spectrum that is affected , although blue/yellow deficiency may occur or there may even be a total loss of colour perception . |
| 25 | In practice however it would appear that PGCE courses do resemble each other in many significant ways , no doubt because they have the same ultimate purposes and because the limited time available enforces a focus on fundamental issues leaving little opportunity for additional , idiosyncratic areas of study . |
| 26 | Chosen Heritage Ltd. has a scheme whereby a firm instruction can be given for a guaranteed price funeral which can be paid for at today 's prices . |
| 27 | ICAM-1 , the intercellular adhesion molecule-1 represents a cell surface bound glycoprotein of 70 to 110 kilodaltons ( kDa ) . |
| 28 | The Inland Ionian Sea is the ideal place first to sail a yacht . |
| 29 | On this occasion the lack of odour can be detrimental , as several light gases , notoriously carbon monoxide and methane are toxic and the human nose unable to provide a warning of their presence . |
| 30 | The survey schools which have , for a variety of reasons , decided to operate a formula-based approach all took a number of points into consideration when devising their own particular scheme . |