Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Networks of production and consumption relations , ossified in fixed capital and anachronistic infrastructure , share the same geographical location as the places mediated by the rich political symbolism invested in the notion of the inner city . |
| 3 | A tall slim man stood in the doorway to the bathroom . |
| 4 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed in the past few days the widespread support for our plans to seek better-quality services from councils ? |
| 5 | Of course , we are still receiving the odd British shell dropping in the orchard . |
| 6 | And can not last : Reliable figures are had to find , but there is little doubt that Sarawak — an area about the size of England and Wales — is today probably supplying about one quarter of the total raw hardwood exports in the world . |
| 7 | The GEC Initiative is expected to account for one-third of total social science spending in the l990s . |
| 8 | As far as the dynamic situation is concerned , however , there is a close parallel between the use of a small screw pitch and the high gear-down ratio discussed in the previous section . |
| 9 | He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular . |
| 10 | BGS is making geochemical tests on material from two deep boreholes at Dounreay , and investigating potential interactions between the alkali-rich cementitious material used in the construction of the repository and the saturated groundwater that would bathe it . |
| 11 | A charming Canadian town nestling in the eternally lush and fertile Orotava Valley , whose beauty and mild climate have attracted visitors for over a hundred years . |
| 12 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 13 | ( The English Electric number quoted in the October FlyPast may well relate only to a sub-section . ) |
| 14 | Although the moon had set , they could see Maldita 's ghostly white body slumped in the corner like a cast-off shroud . |
| 15 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 16 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 17 | The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads , goes through Saintbury Church , noted for its pagan survivals , through a Bronze Age round barrow , a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort , through a Saxon pagan cemetery , and an eighteenth-century beacon tower , ending at an ancient farmstead , Seven Wells — which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl . |
| 18 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 19 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 20 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 21 | There was a different harsh reality waiting in the lodge : I stood with chums , amazed at what looked like Som . |
| 22 | We scudded over the Dorus Mhor which was conveniently quiescent , its frothing tidal step lurking in the depths . |
| 23 | The unemployed Turkish waiter stood in the doorway and peered at him ; he was muscular and squat , and he was wearing only pyjama trousers that were creased and stained . |
| 24 | The heady fund of top level corruption hangs in the air and curdles the coffee . |
| 25 | Women heard about the different educational method used in the five phrenological schools that had beer founded by William Ellis in the 1850s . |
| 26 | It has been postulated by Hanna ( 1969 ) , adopting a suggestion made earlier by Bagnold , that these dunes are caused by the development of longitudinal helical roll vortices in the general air flow . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most difficult of all was Poland where , as a French secret agent complained in the 1670s , the court " ran about like a troop of gipsies " . |
| 28 | This and the friendly , English-speaking people , means that Acapulco has becomes one of the most popular action-packed holiday resorts in the world , frequented by the rich and famous . |
| 29 | As early as 1952 ( the first British atomic test occurred in the same year ) the defence planners produced a new and detailed analysis — the " Global Strategy Paper " . |
| 30 | Given the detailed lexical information used in the ANLT a morphological processor leads to a large reduction in storage space required . |