Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( i ) the speeding up of routines which would otherwise be too slow and impractical to be used : this is particularly significant in the area of graphics where large figures can be produced at a good speed and some reasonably large-scale movement becomes possible ( ii ) the addition of extra facilities not generally available in BASIC : for example , different forms of character input instruction , including timing , displaying a pre-stored picture ‘ instantly ’ , and automatic device initialization ( see next section ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be that the Institute ought to take a stricter line in future and that more disciplinary action will be taken , ’ said Investigation Committee secretary Gordon Porter . |
| 3 | Occupational risk activities are those involving exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids . |
| 4 | To the right was a wall-mounted gas-fired incinerator , a row of clothes-hooks , a large wicker laundry-basket and two rather battered cane chairs . |
| 5 | ‘ On behalf of the association I would like to say how much we appreciate all their hard work and this very positive support . |
| 6 | first , the definition of infanticide is limited to the killing of the child most recently born , which means that when a mother in a disturbed state kills both her last-born child and another slightly older child , the one killing is infanticide and the other may be murder , whereas the defendant 's culpability is surely the same in both cases . |
| 7 | She was full of vigour and indignation and those rather pretty diamond ear-rings swung to and fro . |
| 8 | The minor one is that with the wing and two very heavy jet engines gone we have all that less to lift although I 'm certain we could have lifted the whole lot without trouble . |
| 9 | Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries , in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac . |
| 10 | There is the grudging recognition that , as it stands today , the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism and that only limited legitimacy ( and therefore power ) can attach to a second chamber whose membership is largely based on heredity and which has an overwhelming and permanent majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 12 | Our modes of dress and consequent loss of deference to the rigidities of rank and other previously respected apparatus of the hierarchical system were all influenced . |
| 13 | The first records of plantings are three M. campbellii mollicomata and two very majestic M. veitchii ( campbellii × heptapeta ) . |
| 14 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 15 | Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar , sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather . |
| 16 | Low coastline and some slightly boggy moorland . |
| 17 | The waterways are incredibly peaceful with a wealth of wildlife and some incredibly beautiful scenery . |
| 18 | The unlinked anonymous serosurvey of people attending genitourinary medicine clinics provided further data on the age specific prevalence of HIV infection and acute sexually transmitted disease among homosexual men . |
| 19 | Other groups are studying rural development opportunities , farm forestry and other environmentally sensitive farming practices , the economics of low input and organic farming systems , the optimal utilisation of agricultural investment and the creation of expert systems to aid in decision-making for the management of the natural and farmed environment . |
| 20 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 21 | So , on Thursday evening their production got off to a good start with its sparse but effective scenery , sympathetic lighting and some remarkably good costuming . |
| 22 | Champions ' Challenge prior to the Panasonic European Open at Walton Heath saw some spectacular golf and some equally spectacular scoring — not least from Nick Faldo , who aced his 6-iron tee shot at the 9th . |
| 23 | Tesco 's , they sent a letter out to them , and er , cos there open over Christmas period , er I think some of the stores and the letter says we all get two days off , cos , and then like , they , they wo n't Christmas day , twelve o'clock new , Christmas Eve and twelve o'clock new Christmas Day , they twelve o'clock |
| 24 | However , both the Turin police headquarters and the anti-terrorist squad said they knew of no particular cause for alarm and that only normal security measures had been taken . |
| 25 | Although large areas of ridge and furrow and numerous previously unrecorded field monuments were discovered , little of definite pre-Norman date could be indicated . |
| 26 | Other sections of the press , for example the Sunday newspapers , had always shown less interest in politics and devoted considerably less space to the staple diet of the ideal ‘ fourth estate ’ newspaper . |
| 27 | Fifteen minutes later , one very tired arm and one very happy angler . |