Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona .
2 The all-important top soil quickly disappears , and leaches into the rivers , making the water muddy brown and scuppering any chance of a new forest growing up .
3 Four Trix is a former winner of the Scottish National and has inconsistent form but Richards is more keen on the chance of On The Other Hand whom he bought out of the John Mulhern stable at the end of last month .
4 Erm Thinking now of all the different British philatelic and stamp related products that are currently on offer , how would you normally get to hear about them ?
5 When the pronostic impact of the different clinicopathological and flow cytometric variables on survival was evaluated in a multivariate regression analysis , radicality of surgery emerged as the most important factor ( χ 2 =22.5 ) followed by tumour grading ( χ 2 =7.1 ) , sex of the patients ( χ 2 =7.1 ) , and tumour stage ( χ 2 =5.0 ) .
6 She reportedly was injured in her quarterfinal match at the French Open and received pain-killing injections before her semi-final and final matches .
7 For a small-town , one-star hotel , the menu was more ambitious than anything likely to be found in its British equivalent and included such delights as scallops and sweetbreads .
8 Some years ago a newly-qualified private pilot , trained at a school which taught mixture-rich , did a quick conversion onto a smart 300 hp six-seat retractable and took three friends overseas for the day .
9 We are not , in fact , living through a distinct coherent and progressing moral panic about AIDS .
10 Aim for the highest standard possible and pay great attention to detail .
11 Did separatists really lift feminism from under the coat-tails of the male left and establish autonomous women 's political activity ?
12 Through their ( respective ) straightforward colonial and convoluted imperialist trajectories the transnational practices of these two countries etched the forms of capitalism onto the global system .
13 If we 've got to close homes , let's close them but make sure the homes that 's left are warm welcoming and give these people the dignity and the independence to which they are entitled to which they 've earned and which they thoroughly deserve .
14 These high mean ages at onset and the absence of difference in uptake between hypertensives and controls reflect the history of oral contraception , which became available in the early 1960s and made rapid progress in this village , with our support .
15 Thus , while the heavy organics industry — petrochemicals , plastics and fibres — went through a very bad period in the early 1980s and lost much money , many of the inorganic chemicals such as chlorine derivatives retained their traditional stability .
16 She was particularly stable downwind and reached 14 knots on occasions .
17 Party leadership was put in the hands of Rakovskii ( a Roumanian ) , who was instructed to make every effort to win over the support of the Ukrainian Left and make all concessions required to conciliate the Ukrainian peasantry .
18 He is an incredible workaholic and has amazing energy . ’
19 No porosity or permeability data has been published for the oolitic grainstones but these are known to be porous in the southern North Sea and Poland where they display both primary inter-granular and leached intragranular pores ( Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Peryt and Piatkowski 1977 ; Peryt 1978 ) .
20 These are , however , even inserted at positions identical to those of corresponding fungal and liverwort intervening sequences .
21 Porosity is found mainly in oolitic grainstones and is made up of both primary intergranular and leached intragranular voids ( Fig. 16a ) .
22 Taken together , the petrological analysis of the black cordoned and rilled micaceous wares recovered at Hengistbury Head and the known geology of the region leave no doubt that these wares were imported to southern Britain in the Late Iron Age .
23 It keeps baths , basins and taps sparkling clean and prevents costly limescale build-up in shower heads , water pipes and hot water cylinders .
24 We are referring to theories , based on detailed laboratory studies of both normal schizotypal and diagnosed schizophrenic subjects , about how the ‘ psychotic ’ brain processes information .
25 Both submarines were nuclear powered and carrying nuclear weapons .
26 A nocturnal sleeping unit of unprocessed cereal material , an exterior segment of medium calorie farinaceous comestible and attrited fragmentary clothing units .
27 Self-contained units of nourishment , such as Fisons new Tomato Gro-Bag , are formulated to produce better tasting fruit , they make growing easy and give splendid results .
28 The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net .
29 Studies in rats have shown that bile salts inhibit gastric emptying and prolongs intestinal transit time .
30 It has been reported that gastric infusion of bile salts in rats delays gastric emptying and inhibits small bowel transit time .
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