Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | It turns out that all neurons of the primary visual cortex respond best to oriented bars or edges , though they still vary greatly among themselves as to the position their receptive field occupies in the visual field , as to the direction of preferred orientation , velocity of motion , size of bar and its polarity ( dark or light ) , and in other ways . |
| 3 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 4 | Puzzle Wood is an area which has remained unaltered since it was transformed into tranquil woodland walks in the 1800's . |
| 5 | Germany 's high-technology/ electronics exports in the early 1970s exceeded those of France and Britain combined . |
| 6 | Madeleine Albright , 55 , currently teaching at Georgetown University , was a political scientist specializing in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 7 | ( Had this kind of European provision existed in the 1920s and 1930s it might and probably would have made it much more difficult for the Fascist and other extreme forms of government to take hold . ) |
| 8 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 9 | Now , with interest rates on the way down , business will be able to expand once more — from the strong base achieved in the 1980s . |
| 10 | The bloody hook curved in the downy ruff … |
| 11 | I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos . |
| 12 | There was a second clattering of footsteps and Ian appeared , his tall figure framed in the sliding door . |
| 13 | In an extensive interview published in the leading news magazine Veja on May 24 , Pedro Collor had claimed that Farias had pocketed US$15,000,000 of the US$100,000,000 election campaign fund and continued to broker contracts between private companies and the government , sharing commissions with the President . |
| 14 | A strong wind blowing in the right direction can put a metre on a high tide in exceptional circumstances , and the wind can also prevent the tide from receding as much as it should . |
| 15 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |
| 16 | This mighty High Mage bound the fearsome dragons to his will , using harnesses of enchanted truesteel smelted in the fiery heart of Vaul 's Anvil . |
| 17 | Thinking of the frail figure sitting in the gloomy room at the sanatorium , trusting the great Bonanza . |
| 18 | Comparing the post-acute pancreatitis patients with the controls , the time taken for labelled total protein to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly ( p<0.05 ) longer in the post-acute pancreatitis patients ( Table II , Fig 3 ) . |
| 19 | A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought . |
| 20 | A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties . |
| 21 | In the 1960s and 1970s Brooke-Rose rediscovered the recycling of our cultural heritage condemned in The Dear Deceit as a form of parodic interrogation . |
| 22 | Once confined to chapels and minsters , stained glass now makes its shimmering presence felt in the secular world . |
| 23 | Some of the options for the future of British Rail outlined in the 1983 Serpell Report would , if adopted , leave the network effectively only inter-main-cities , and would make the decline of rural railways almost complete . |
| 24 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 25 | However , Trotsky also recognized that to effect the massive social change needed in the Soviet Union a professional , trained and expert apparatus was needed . |
| 26 | Beneath their discursiveness , these books exhibit a coherent social theory : the way to social progress lay in the rational wills of individuals , and true philanthropy consisted in supporting and strengthening that rational will rather than in the mechanical relief of poverty . |
| 27 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 28 | Each faction seems prima facie to have chosen a different side to support in the Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 29 | They follow a common scriptural tradition , Christians seeing what they call the Old Testament fulfilled in the New Testament , and Islam seeing both fulfilled in the Qur'an . |
| 30 | It was the custom of the train crews to make up the fish trains from empty stock located in the New Clee sidings , between Grimsby and Cleethorpes . |