Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential for future economic growth depends partly on innovations in production technology , to reduce costs and , crucially , on innovative products which create new markets in themselves . |
| 2 | Presidential elections on March 20 brought into focus the conflict between , on the one hand , Taiwan 's claim to embody the legitimate government of mainland China , and , on the other hand , the problem that the ossified political institutions which sustained that claim lacked credibility and acceptance among the younger population in particular . |
| 3 | Then there is a group of more technical reasons which make statistical modelling and extrapolation more difficult , and inhibit attempts to overcome a shortage of resources for direct measurement by statistical estimation of soil losses . |
| 4 | The opposition also accused the government of being corrupt and of promoting economic policies which benefited neighbouring India more than Nepal [ see pp. 38681-82 ] . |
| 5 | However , the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons . |
| 6 | Here , is a procession of large mammals , with the birds ( seen at Barton Farm and Woodchester ) seemingly despatched to two narrow strips which lie either side of the main design . |
| 7 | The final document stressed the relationship between political pluralism and market economies and committed the 35 member nations to " endeavour to achieve " ( i ) free and competitive market economies with prices based on supply and demand ; ( ii ) fiscal and monetary policies which promoted economic growth and enhanced the ability of markets to function efficiently ; ( iii ) policies aimed at expanding the free flow of trade , capital and investment ; and ( iv ) the repatriation of profits in convertible currencies . |
| 8 | They identified two distinct social problems : the ‘ low , loafing class ’ , the ‘ residuum ’ at the bottom of society , the very poor and irregularly employed who constituted a permanent problem ; and the élite of respectable labourers who suffered occasional problems of poverty due to unemployment , sickness and old age . |
| 9 | Of course , this is not the same as saying that the rich and powerful never get prosecuted : there are many specific cases which illustrate this point , and which are generally well publicised . |
| 10 | The wheel is more aerodynamic than traditional spoked wheels and avoids the problem that dogs many professional cyclists who use solid disc wheels — that of being blown sidewards by crosswinds . |
| 11 | However , the instruction manual , though extremely comprehensive , is written in that awful Americanese which makes similar pamphlets printed in Japan almost a pleasure to read ! |
| 12 | There are , for instance , mnemonic devices in oral cultures which offer some resistance to this process : ‘ formalised patterns of speech , recital under ritual conditions , the use of drums and other musical instruments , the employment of professional remembrancers — all such factors may shield at least part of the content of memory from the transmuting influence of the immediate pressures of the present ’ ( 1968 , p. 31 ) . |
| 13 | To characterize the DNA-binding specificity of the divergent pou[c] protein we expressed pou[c] cDNA in E.coli as a fusion to glutathione S-transferase ( GST ) and performed gel mobility shift assays ( GMSA ) with the affinity purified fusion protein ( 52 ) . |
| 14 | When Insurers settle a total loss they acquire two types of rights — the entitlement to take over the Policyholder 's interest in the subject matter insured , and all the Policyholder 's rights and remedies in respect of the casualty which caused the loss . |
| 15 | In 1912 he was a founder of the Independent Labour Party of Ireland , forerunner of the Irish Labour Party , and proposed in the Irish Worker a political programme which included proportional representation and women 's suffrage . |
| 16 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 17 | The new regime ruthlessly crushed all semblance of armed opposition which threatened national unity . |
| 18 | To assess the potential contribution of lamina propria lymphocytes to measured metabolism we obtained peripheral blood lymphocytes from the heparinised blood of a patient having colonoscopy for polyp surveillance with centrifugation in Lymphoprep ( Flow Laboratories , Rickmansworth , UK ) . |
| 19 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 20 | The ‘ lobby ’ is the shorthand term for the club of political journalists who attend off-the-record briefings with the prime minister 's press secretary . |
| 21 | A rather vicious English GHOST which haunts ancient sites of keeps and cases along the Scottish border . |
| 22 | As detailed examinations of mother-infant interactions show , from the beginning the baby is active , not passive ; his behaviour is organized , not ‘ absent ’ ; and even to the earliest social interactions he brings certain characteristics which will affect the behaviour of other people towards him . |
| 23 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 24 | One recent instance was an enquête orale into the French Resistance which interrogated 2,000 witnesses in a standard manner under central direction.6 Nor , for all the abundance , is the evidence of recent history without its gaps : historians can still argue about the nature and origin of Hitler 's decisions on policy . |
| 25 | Belonging to a generation of British artists who make biomorphic compositions , MacIlraith has not made paintings for six years , although he exhibited his drawings with Anthony Brown in 1991 . |
| 26 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 27 | He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract . |
| 28 | But as countries move into much needed economic reform programmes we know that children may be the losers in the very short term and that 's why in the O D A we are concerned with helping governments develop social policies which provide adequate safety net provision for children during this process of adjustment . |
| 29 | This will require an attack on pension inequalities and social policies which stigmatise older people . |
| 30 | Semantic interactions which involve this sort of meaning are not usually channelled through the syntactic structure , hence there is no syntactic dimension to any lexical dissonance which may arise . |