Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOFFERT AND COVEY REPLY — Lindzen challenges our derivation of global climate sensitivity by suggesting that large climate changes could have resulted from changes in poleward heat flow and/or the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of sunlight , that is , by moving heat from one location to another . |
| 2 | The economy will deteriorate further and be unable to support either the military establishment or the civil and political movement toward a free and democratic country . |
| 3 | On the first ground , ‘ knowing assistance ’ in the breach of trust or the dishonest and fraudulent design , it necessary to prove from the outset knowledge of the existence of a trust . |
| 4 | And we are seeing in eighteen thirty a significant gap between on the one hand erm the western powers and on the other hand the east european or the central and eastern european powers . |
| 5 | Whether you are attracted to the beauty and tranquillity of Lake Saimaa or the historic and cultural wealth of Leningrad , perestroika can be thanked for having opened up a fascinating new cruising ground accessible to those looking for fresh places to visit , as well as being a potential charter area . |
| 6 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 7 | Divisions in the book are unusually clear , separate chapters being given to topics such as function , the market , or the historical and political background of the subject . |
| 8 | Quite often things will not go to plan because of the variability of people 's behaviour in situations of stress or the unusual and horrific nature of some of the calls the police have to attend . |
| 9 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 10 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 11 | In practice , the result might well have been either a collapse of the new procedure or a perfunctory and rapid processing which would deny the public participation which Dobry wished to increase . |
| 12 | The type of cultural intervention envisaged by the Committee involves not just a preaching mission , but also active cultural transformation of a kind which requires a certain degree of " love " , or a liberal and sympathetic attachment not only to " folk " cultures but even to urban industrial cultures : " The ambassadors of poetry must be humble , they must learn to call nothing common or unclean — not even the local dialect , the clatter of the factory , or the smoky pall of our industrial centres " ( 238/260 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Injury ’ includes shock , or a hysterical and nervous condition ( R v Miller [ 1954 ] 2 All ER 529 and Hay ( or Bourhill ) v Young [ 1943 ] AC 92 ( 115 JP Jo 250 ) ) . |
| 14 | Watson also deserves credit for lifting the veil from Braidwood 's secret teaching methods by publishing after Braidwood 's death in 1806 a book entitled The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb : or a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language , which made the early technique of such teaching in this country public knowledge . |
| 15 | It may be an incremental addition to the sum of human knowledge , or a fundamental and radical change in the way in which the universe is viewed ; the personal revelatory experience of scientific discovery is its own reward , and it forms a major motivating force for many researchers . |
| 16 | In this event you will be offered the choice of an alternative holiday of at least comparable standard where available , or a full and prompt refund of any monies you have already paid . |
| 17 | Neither the decaying seapower of Venice , which after the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718 was used only in unsuccessful punitive expeditions against the Barbary States ; nor the insignificant squadrons of Tuscany and Naples ; nor the small and inefficient navy of Portugal , were factors of much significance in the balance of European naval power . |
| 18 | During the Giscard Presidency : the news and current affairs coverage satisfied no-one : neither the President , who thought — and said — that the journalists of the state television had been better disposed toward his predecessors ; nor the socialist and communist opposition which periodically ran campaigns in favour of the freedom of news broadcasting . ’ |
| 19 | The worry in Washington is that the economy and national defence are suffering because young Americans have neither the technical skills of the Japanese nor the linguistic and scientific proficiency of Russian students . |
| 20 | Neither the continent-wide surge in the cost of living in 1853–4 nor the dramatic and world-wide slump of 1858 brought any serious social unrest . |
| 21 | Nor a sweet and tragic husband who , despite everything , still loved them both dearly . |
| 22 | The determinants of the time value component are primarily the volatility of the underlying shares and the prevailing and expected interest rates in the money markets . |
| 23 | In the passage quoted from Whatever Happened to Sex ? when Richard Neville was discussed above , Mrs Whitehouse described his book Playpower as ‘ the handbook of the international drop-outs ’ , the purpose of the underground as ‘ not so much to dissent as to disrupt ’ and the implicit and explicit goal contained in OZ editorial policies as the overthrow of society . |
| 24 | The idea of a friend dying in battle is featured here as in all the narratives and the hopeless and despairing feeling also can be felt throughout Owen 's poetry . |
| 25 | Its appraisal must be made by reference to the market position and the economic and financial power of the parties ; to alternatives available to suppliers and users ; to access to suppliers or markets ; to the structure of the markets affected , to take account of international competition ; to consider legal and factual barriers to entry ; and the interests of consumers and the development of technical and economic progress ( provided that the latter is to the consumers ' advantage and does not form an obstacle to competition ) . |
| 26 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 27 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 28 | However , this Proposal was originally issued in 1972 , and was re-issued in 1983 following discussions with the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee ; its lack of progress reflects its controversial nature , and its future advance is unlikely to be rapid . |
| 29 | The Parliamentary Assembly and the Economic and Social Committee were primarily or wholly advisory in nature , with very little checking power , while the Court of Justice could interpret the provisions of the treaty and the decisions of the EEC . |
| 30 | At a lower rank come the Acts adopted , not by the Member States , but by the institutions established by the founding treaties , that is , the Council and the Commission in collaboration , as appropriate , with the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee . |