Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 2 | His company , National Airways which he ran in the early 1980s provided great adventure too . |
| 3 | According to committee chairman Professor John Knill , it would be well into the early 2000s before sufficient evidence on the choice of site could be collected . |
| 4 | The first report on the wastage of ability in the early 1950s provided abundant evidence that girls , particularly those from lower socio-economic backgrounds , left school earlier than boys of similar class position . |
| 5 | After Precious Link had led turning for home in the Peter Cazalet Memorial to score by six lengths from Super Express , Simon Earle , rider of the runner-up , complained that his mount had got unbalanced and made a mistake at the second last because Precious Link had taken his ground . |
| 6 | For much of the period overmanning was absorbed at the cost of lower absolute levels of productivity ( despite the quite good record in terms of productivity growth ) , and the full extent of the burden was not revealed until the late 1970s as international competition drove sectors of British industry to the point of collapse [ Prais , 1981 ] . |
| 7 | Its shares dropped 5 p.c. on news that the problems , which stem from a big push in the late 1980s for free-trade business , have worsened significantly since chief executive Peter Jarvis expressed concern at the interims last year . |
| 8 | Colin was based at Linlithgow for 10 years — the first eight as Assistant Manager and the final two as Manager — and although originally from Edinburgh , he and his wife Joy and their two sons , Martin and Douglas plan to stay in the town . |
| 9 | In contrast to the Chilterns , the top people were sharply divided from the great mass of poor peasants who doubtless thought a combination of the two safer than exclusive reliance on either crops or livestock , just as many customarily sowed mixed seeds , such as maslin ( wheat and rye ) counting on one at least to come up . |