Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course adjustments may be put into effect immediately in the case of full-time courses , while , in order to protect the interests of part-time students locked into the Institution 's examination programme , adequate forward notice and even a transitional period with parallel diets , have had to be offered . |
| 2 | There are families in whom the two conditions coexist raising the possibility that they share a similar genetic predisposition and possibly a common transmissable agent such as a mycobacterium . |
| 3 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
| 4 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |
| 5 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 6 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 7 | In a company involved in a fast moving technology and consequently a continuous output of new products , this commitment can amount to 30 per cent of total R&D resources . |
| 8 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 9 | Police on parade , in the absence of marches by a peacetime army , was both a major civic celebration and also a symbol of untrammelled power . |
| 10 | The government of George I and the Whigs never lost its credibility , but retained the support of a substantial proportion of the traditional ruling class and probably a higher proportion of the mass of the population than is usually realised . |
| 11 | His upbeat — you know how with many conductors this is a great upwards gesture and then a dreadful flop back down — with him there was none of this . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough battled every inch of the way to gain a creditable 0–0 draw and only a second leg at Old Trafford now lies between Middlesbrough and their second Wembley Cup Final in two years . |
| 13 | The Vesica piscis became an important emotional symbol and also a practical geometrician 's tool throughout Gothic architecture , sculpture and painting . |
| 14 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 15 | Next to it was a suit in plain grey worsted and then a mustardy one , a brown pin-stripe , and the dog's-tooth . |
| 16 | The general sequence of operation tends to be the same for all types with a pre-rinse , to purge the food residues , followed by a hot caustic wash and then a highly diluted cold acid rinse . |
| 17 | DNA sequencing , another fundamental molecular genetic technique and increasingly a vital component for identifying molecular pathology in patients , has also become reliant on the reaction . |
| 18 | Several authorities have stated that malignant hypertension ( implying the presence of arterial fibrinoid necrosis and usually a diastolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg with retinal changes such as haemorrhages , exudates and papilloedema ) is rare in diabetics and that generally the degree of hypertension tends not to be severe ( Drury , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | One of the popular books at the very outbreak of war captured the mood , Mrs Miniver ( 1939 ) ; an American best seller and subsequently a most successful film , it is said that it hastened America 's entry into the war . |
| 20 | There is , of course , a heater and a heated rear screen and even a wash/wipe mechanism fitted to the hard top but once that has been removed , a five minute , two man job , the driver is at the mercy of the elements unless he is willing to pay extra for the folding soft top . |
| 21 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |