Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after !
2 — Although the flight of insects has been referred to on p. 64 , the coordinated activities of the skeletomuscular system of flying insects need further brief discussion ( Tiegs , 1955 ; Pringle , 1957 , 1965 , 1968 ) .
3 The reason is not clear , but must be the result of some subtle change in the genetic information in the nucleus .
4 The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that .
5 It was thus a political decision in the strictest sense , but it was taken , not in response to any kind of popular pressure , but in response to a narrowly but powerfully based pressure-group campaign in which those who stood to gain most from it financially , such as the makers of television sets , played a prominent role .
6 The range of normal values for the oesophageal pH environment has been derived from previous study of 30 asymptomatic control subjects in this laboratory .
7 It is possible to analyse possible interactions between the syntactic cue and description type also , but these are best understood on the basis of the data .
8 Product stability is , by definition , the inherent stability of the product independent of possible interactions with the immediate container or of questions of the adequacy or otherwise of the protection afforded by the sales package .
9 They followed him through a narrow passageway into the old town .
10 Although no pyramid has been found with its original contents present , the recent exploration of a narrow passageway within the Great Pyramid built for the pharaoh Cheops has led archaeologists to hope for an undisturbed chamber at the other end .
11 Those countries are co-ordinating their industrial and economic strategies at the regional level .
12 For 1993 Mr Fothergills again lead the way in revivals with ‘ Night and Day ’ after spotting just one plant of this white-throated , crimson flowered variety in a four-acre field of ‘ Black Prince ’ .
13 Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia .
14 ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone .
15 Accepting this as a broad description of the current state , we now examine some real-time data in order to confirm the direction of change .
16 In order to locate the variables that might be worthy of study , and to define the variants of the variables , a broad description of the phonological system has to be prepared beforehand .
17 Thereafter , however , he was in regular attendance , being recorded as present at nine out of twelve private meetings in the Painted Chamber and at all four sessions of the actual trial in Westminster Hall , including the final session on Saturday 29 January , in which the sentence of death was passed by all present ( though he did not sign the death warrant ) .
18 Solicitors are increasingly becoming the dominant branch of the profession despite the historical recognition that they are the junior part of the legal profession .
19 And the technical reliability of a crucial design feature of the plant — its steam-generators — remain a matter of conjecture .
20 Chartism articulated experience within a complex rhetoric that interpellated radical working-class support at a national level .
21 He was probably as tough as old leather , cycling his rural route with a heavy sack every morning .
22 The traditional costume of the men is white baggy knee-length trousers , a white long-sleeved and open-necked shirt with a soft collar and a red sash at the waist .
23 She was immediately conscious of every line of the taut muscular body , from his shoulders beneath the open-necked shirt to a slim waist and lean thighs beneath the dark trousers he was wearing .
24 Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers .
25 The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company .
26 We have seen in this chapter how a dual structure of production has been maintained in Japan through the interconnected activities of private business and a state which has supported the simultaneous existence of a limited number of larger companies and a massive network of smaller ones .
27 In Chapter 1 , we defined inflation as a persistent rise in the average level of prices and we pointed out that in the UK the rate of inflation is normally measured as the annual percentage increase in the Retail Price Index .
28 They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed .
29 This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts .
30 The fact that several provincial towns reported pope-burnings in November 1714 and 1715 should make us question how extensive support for the Jacobite position was at this time .
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