Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 But is a set of .009s from one manufacturer really all that different to a set of.009s from another ?
2 In Knin , residents set up barricades on all approach roads to prevent Croat police arriving to stop the referendum , and local reservists carrying firearms ( some stolen from the town 's police station ) patrolled the streets .
3 Some concentrated on the sitter 's head , while others depicted clothing or background .
4 If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years .
5 The forlorn street scenes that ornament front and back , in black and grey monochrome , alleviated only by the red-brown used for the author 's name and title , return us to Minton 's scenes of devastation of the early 1940s .
6 The unit is powered direct from the computer 's 5V power line , which must be capable of supplying at least 80mA .
7 He was one of the very few left of the Bruce 's close company , even if no paladin .
8 And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain .
9 Moving on to the smaller lifeboats Mr Vernon referred to development work on a 22ft version of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable at the RNLI 's Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes .
10 The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race .
11 Is this true from the clients ' point of view ?
12 Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities .
13 Food comes pretty much free with the husband 's job working in the fields for the team .
14 to use its best efforts to manufacture Videos to a standard similar to the Publisher 's own work ,
15 In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back .
16 Now it was late afternoon and the headland lay enriched by the mellow afternoon light , the sea a wide expanse of wrinkled blue with a painter 's stroke of purple laid on the horizon .
17 Sub-lieutenant Bacci , very much aware of the Marshal 's enormous eyes fixed upon him , began his questioning rather hesitantly .
18 This is because benefits ( which are entirely fuel savings over the whole system ) are less valuable early in the plant 's life than they become later , as coal and oil prices are expected to rise continuously in real terms .
19 In truth , you need around two and a half to three feet ( that 's up to a metre in Blue Peter-speak ) of front-to-back space to site the beast , which may seem a little profligate for a printer 's footprint , but is worth it , believe me .
20 Cases of this type have been recorded in many vaults whilst another , of 1678 to Francis Osbaston , High Sheriff of Essex , was discovered in an earth-cut grave at Little Ilford , Essex , during excavations in 1984 prior to the site 's reordering .
21 Nevertheless , they did conclude an Agreement on 15 June 1905 to supply electric current to the Company 's Penge tramways at 2 pence per unit from Churchfields Road Power Station .
22 Since then , the debt crisis has been handled through a series of temporary rescheduling agreements financed partly by the IMF and partly by private banks , each guaranteed creditworthy by the country 's acceptance of an IMF adjustment programme designed to generate a foreign exchange surplus through cuts in imports and export production .
23 Well , by the end of the day this proved to be our only catch , but we were all three pleased with the day 's work .
24 The question which is perhaps left open by the Court 's decisions so far is whether a retention of the business 's identity can be found , say in the case of a franchise , where none of the employees , equipment or buildings used by the transferor in the activity pass to the transferee .
25 A Citalia favourite for over 30 years , this hotel sits in a square close to the lake 's landing stage .
26 Now 18 clear in the jockeys ' table , the Ulsterman has the Midas touch at present and he must be regretting that next week the seasonal festivities mean three days without racing .
27 A current flowing into the inductance L1 at the dot produces a voltage V2 = M(dI1/dt) as shown in Fig. 4.9 .
28 The mastery of a musical instrument , the ability to interpret notes , a feeling for rhythm , the disciplining of the body through formal physical education and informal dance are all central to a child 's needs in the transition from babyhood through adolescence to maturity .
29 The millionth customer , the millionth unit produced , the 200 per cent sales performance and a major project completed are all worthy of the Profitboss 's endeavours to achieve publicity for his team .
30 And so , in spite of our nostalgia for the days when Premier Harold Macmillan declared that Britain had ‘ never had it so good ’ , there was nothing at all unusual in the BMA 's diagnosis of the appalling state of morals in 1961 :
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