Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes . |
| 2 | Jan Alexander Taylor and Patrick Thomas Hayes were arrested on Tuesday , hours after police released film of two men caught on security cameras five weeks ago walking along the street near the Knightsbridge store about 30 minutes before a small bomb exploded . |
| 3 | As the hon. and learned Gentleman is asking questions about the management of our prisons , what has he to say about the management of a prison service in which , 12 months after a learned judge advises the Home Secretary to move suspected and convicted terrorists from Brixton prison , they are still there ? |
| 4 | Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received . |
| 5 | You will find that many exploratory techniques require repeated steps before a final fit is found . |
| 6 | The broader phonetic representation used in the RM1 front-end will produce more homophones and homophonic phrases than a fine-class representation . |
| 7 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 8 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 9 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 10 | At the same time Lasky offered Out of Darkness in which a young heiress lives off the profits of a Florida cannery in which hundreds of working-girls earned 30 cents for a 13-hour day at the cutting-tables . |
| 11 | In our latest tractor assessment , we look at the Antares 130 , a tractor with more electronic features than a Royal Navy battleship . |
| 12 | The bacteria which produce leprosy are stylish as well as clever : ‘ Leprosy can dress the infected in as many different looks as an Italian fashion designer . ’ |
| 13 | The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately . |
| 14 | The Portuguese government succeeded in enlisting the aid of the European Communities after an 18-km oil slick washed up on the beaches of Porto Santo island in the ( Portuguese ) Madeiras on Jan. 16 , causing the deaths of large numbers of turtles , seagulls and rare birds . |
| 15 | When the case went to court Claire 's solicitor was granted an order allowing her to live with her foster parents until a full hearing . |
| 16 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 17 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 18 | Russia has made clear that it would like longer-term credits and money to help finance such programmes as a social safety net for workers who lose their jobs due to the reforms . |
| 19 | Not a great place to spend five or six hours if an early start is required , but it was Christmas and we were in celebratory mood . |
| 20 | Prima facie such a corporation has the power to do with its property all such acts as an ordinary person can do , and to bind itself to such contracts as an ordinary person can bind himself to . |
| 21 | Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 . |
| 22 | Detectives say they 'd have more chance of solving such cases if a national register of DNA samples was set up . |
| 23 | Detectives say they 'd have more chance of solving such cases if a national register of DNA samples was set up . |
| 24 | There is the possibility of a complaint being upheld by the Press Council , which functions in such cases as a poor person 's libel court . |
| 25 | It is quite clear that Rome did not have a policy on catholic schooling at this time , and certainly not one requiring attendance at such schools as a religious duty . |
| 26 | Whatever is good in the writings of others should be copied , and constant reference should be made to such books as an English grammar , Roget 's Thesaurus and a good dictionary . |
| 27 | They viewed such methods as a necessary evil , unavoidable yet somehow beneath their dignity . |
| 28 | Chief executive Tom Hughes said the reason for the delay was to inform the unsuccessful candidates before a public announcement was made . |
| 29 | The ‘ Delirium mix ’ is as much as could be expected — but not at all disappointing — with the original ingredients rinsed out through stringy synths and a shipment of cosmic awareness ( loads of that in our house ) whilst the ‘ In Dub Mix ’ works up through minimal effects before an unexpected dub bassline rumbles in and you realise you 're travelling at half-speed . |
| 30 | The regions of England , unlike the nations of Scotland and Wales , do not have their own Cabinet Minister , separate structures or , indeed , such elements as a separate Question Time in the House . |