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 | In public sector organizations , the distinction sometimes takes on a lesser and sometimes a greater importance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mixing different tartans is not easy and probably the best advice is to keep one colour common throughout . |
| 17 | Labour council leader John Williams said the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate and High Row was long overdue and just the first step in a town improvement strategy . |
| 18 | Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In medieval Europe and Islam , for example , the monetary stability of the coinage was adjudged paramount and consequently the same design was retained for long periods to maintain public confidence and implicitly offer reassurance about the unchanging quality of the coinage ; we have already noted in Chapter 2 the same sort of attitude in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC ( see figs. 9 and 3 ) . |
| 22 | Most changes are minimal and so a further proof is not necessary . |
| 23 | He 's mean , he 's moody and probably the coolest thing on the screen since James Dean thought , ‘ I wonder what it would look like if I pulled my collar up like this ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
| 25 | He is of good family , educated , rich and therefore a perfect match . |
| 26 | More generally , prices could be sticky and yet the major implication of the flexible-price model developed in chapter 4 could still be true . |
| 27 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 28 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |
| 29 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 30 | 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 . |