Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harness stank of dog , that unpleasant smell which big-dog owners never seem to notice in their own house . |
| 2 | For instance , there is a group of bronze-bound wooden vessels whose binding hoops were decorated with a distinctive repoussé ornament and which are found distributed over central southern England ( Arnold 1982a ; Davies 1984 ) . |
| 3 | We appointed some friendly stewards whose sole job was to encourage people from their point of arrival to their destination . |
| 4 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 5 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 6 | In the proposed research the potential contention and ambiguity in British social life which such matters entail are addressed through the study of self-consciously peaceful communities . |
| 7 | The essential point , however , is not what advantage any one party might derive from the WGMS : it is the assurance that unless you choose to give it to some tiny party your second vote will count . |
| 8 | These are public limited companies whose sole purpose is to invest their shareholders ' funds in the shares of other companies . |
| 9 | Time and time again your average punter gets ripped off by some incompetent half-wit whose main aim seems to be to sell as many boxes as he or she can . |
| 10 | The Muslim faith has many similarities to that of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church whose last stronghold is on the Isle of Lewis . |
| 11 | As the eldest girl among the twenty-one children , Isabella was her grandmother 's chief assistant , and in this unusual establishment her informal education began . |
| 12 | In this revised format you present material from your literature review , paradoxically , at the end ( under " relation to existing work " ) , where you examine implications and applications . |
| 13 | In my opinion it is this flexibility which has given English primary education its unique quality . |
| 14 | The creation of this literature in Latin involved men whose native language was either certainly or probably not Latin : Livius Andronicus ' first language was Greek ; Ennius had Oscan ; Naevius , being a Campanian , probably also spoke Oscan as a child ; Plautus must have been brought up on Umbrian , and Terence apparently started with Punic . |
| 15 | Another mental game which some people find effective is to try to think of a boy or girl 's name for every letter of the alphabet , then an animal for every letter , and then an item in the kitchen , etc . |
| 16 | The vole prefers slow-moving rivers , pools and marshy areas with some deep water whose level changes little , but there have been great changes to Britain 's wetlands during the past 40 years as a result of agricultural intensification . |
| 17 | The result is a sympathetic and charmingly balanced profile of this charismatic driver whose uninhibited spirit at the wheel made him so compelling to watch . |
| 18 | Barbs adhered loosely to some Eastern-inspired sect whose professed aim was universal love . |
| 19 | Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it . |
| 20 | Yet it is this very assumption which these writers call into question . |
| 21 | Included in the pack is a list of approved foreign legal professions , and a list of foreign regulatory bodies whose professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 22 | This meant that the clinics were run , in the main , by trained medical officers whose special interest and expertise could be concentrated on the sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 23 | The nature and quality of your basic training will determine to some considerable degree your future prospects . |
| 24 | In March , 1988 he uncovered the fossil remains of a 340 million year old lizard-like reptile which some experts believe could be the earliest known ancestor of dinosaurs . |
| 25 | " Let's see some super shapes you Blue Group , " Mr Lavender shouts down the hall . |
| 26 | The financing of local government is er again circumscribed , local government 's ability to respond to the needs of the community it serves as it and its electors deem appropriate is being curtailed yet again and of course local government is losing its independence to central government and this centralising tendency which this settlement further represents is one of the most pernicious and corrosive characteristics of the modern Conservative party . |
| 27 | Thus I am not disputing this vital fact which classical economists have ( rightly ) asserted as indefeasible . |
| 28 | This might be because building societies have developed some new product which personal savers prefer to National Savings certificates or it may simply be that interest rate differentials have changed in favour of the societies . |
| 29 | But for some other societies its explanatory value is rather more limited . |
| 30 | Some lesbian feminists saw the GLC as just another patriarchal institution whose Equal Opportunities policies would entrap women in another form of male domination . |