Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 2 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 3 | Environmentalists claim that there is insufficient evidence to argue that dioxins are not harmful and therefore the precautionary principle should be enforced , and a ban be placed on all chlorine bleaching . |
| 4 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 5 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 6 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 7 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 8 | The finish was as accurate as the rest of the Belgians ' efforts had been wayward and suddenly the numerical disadvantage Rangers were working under threatened to be a severe handicap . |
| 9 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 10 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 11 | Rolf Hüppi , Zurich 's chief executive since 1991 and once the prime mover behind its multinationals business , sees a day of reckoning ahead for Europe 's 4,000-plus insurance companies . |
| 12 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
| 13 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 14 | Mr. J. C. Walker was formally elected Treasurer and retained that role until 1929 and similarly the Pro-tem Secretary , Alfred Caldecott , was confirmed in the post , jointly with R. Lindsay . |
| 15 | Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown . |
| 16 | The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment . |
| 17 | An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
| 19 | He is of good family , educated , rich and therefore a perfect match . |
| 20 | More generally , prices could be sticky and yet the major implication of the flexible-price model developed in chapter 4 could still be true . |
| 21 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |
| 22 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 23 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |
| 24 | Each on its own seemed admirable and only a small addition to the government 's total expenditure . |
| 25 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 26 | Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " . |
| 27 | The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year . |
| 28 | It 's a lot more than that and quite a different fabric . |
| 29 | This persistence might be seen as an obvious contradiction of the prediction that deviations of output from its natural level should be random and hence a clear refutation of the rational expectations version of the aggregate supply and demand model developed above . |
| 30 | A trade conflict with Spain — allies of France — arose in 1734 and soon the old animosity between France and England came to the surface . |