Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 2 | Indeed , tighter financial targets increasingly conflicted with the consensual political decision to maintain a certain size of railway system . |
| 3 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 4 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 5 | These allowances , plus a few others , are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income . |
| 6 | That way we shall have a good idea of all the different kinds of rose , where to look to find the right variety to suit a particular purpose , and more importantly , where not to look , and what to leave alone . |
| 7 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 8 | Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present . |
| 9 | As did the Harter Act , COGSA also required that carriers exercise due diligence to provide a seaworthy ship . |
| 10 | Because log-normal distributions follow linear trends on the cumulative probability plot he considered each segment to represent a separate sub-population whose character was determined by the dynamics of transport : traction , saltation and suspension . |
| 11 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 12 | Each subject was asked to use each technique to solve a simple problem , having two constraints and one objective . |
| 13 | When the diagnosis of the illness is made , think around your clients and your relatives , because that opportunity to generate the financial security and the friends you need , is threatened by the guilt . |
| 14 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |
| 15 | The other , which seems to be an obsession for the Prime Minister , was his odd crusade to get a fair deal for the oppressed users of motorway service stations . |
| 16 | For all its brilliant rhetoric and endearingly dishonest struggle to regain a masculine integrity , Norman Mailer 's defence of D. H. Lawrence in The Prisoner of Sex conveys finally a certain desperation in the face of apprehensions similar to those which Bersani explores . |
| 17 | If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack . |
| 18 | IS IT REALLY ONLY three years since the infamous incident when drunken revellers used champagne to flush a broken nightclub toilet ? |
| 19 | I would capture a fresh wasp that afternoon to use the following morning . |
| 20 | An alternative to attempting to deal with such matters by a policy of continuous and possibly unsettling adjustment ( by moving departments and personnel around ) would be to allow each branch to become a separate partnership under the aegis of a superimposed managing firm . |
| 21 | In the first half of the nineteenth century , the age-old struggle to reconstitute an ancient text from imperfect manuscript copies was , for the first time , given a proper basis : methodical study of the manuscripts ' interrelationships . |
| 22 | It is a refreshing experience to follow the hon. Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) and I hope that the level of debate on the European Community that we have attained today will be reflected in our two-day debate on 20 and 21 November . |
| 23 | For those weary of collecting paintings or objets d'art , this dispersal of the John Willett Collection of African Ungulates offers that long-awaited opportunity to purchase the complete skeleton of Megaceros Hibernicus ( est. £30,000–40,000 ; $15,500–20,700 ) . |
| 24 | Her unnecessary decision to do the dirtiest work in the place struck them as alarming . |
| 25 | The TRANSAID team will write the outline documents and then get a professional writer to produce the final manual . |
| 26 | British fascism was born of the failure of economic conservatism to check the rapid decline of Britain in the inter-war years . |
| 27 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 28 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 29 | 2 × 40 minute Video Cassettes , divided into a total of 8 episodes , with a review section at the end of each episode to reinforce the essential language points |
| 30 | It 's easy to get set yourself and with heated curlers , tongs and styling products better than ever before , all you need is a little practice to create the perfect style . |