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

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1 Energy was the release of such power that 2.2 pounds weight of the material , plutonium , could in the event of complete fission produce violent strength in the muscle of physics that was equivalent to the detonation of 20,000 tons of conventional explosive .
2 GST-pou[c] was bound to 32 P-end labelled 143 bp fragments containing either the ICP4 motif ( lanes 1–7 ) or the Ad2 motif ( lanes 8–13 ) at different positions from the ends of the fragments and the complexes formed were analysed by gel electrophoresis .
3 Of 11 rebleeders , three received a second epinephrine injection and two of them achieved haemostasis ( the failed case had successful surgical intervention ) ; six received epinephrine injection followed by pure alcohol injection and all achieved haemostasis ; two received surgical intervention directly ( one emergency operation because of massive bleeding and one elective operation because of adenocarcinoma of the stomach as well as a bleeding duodenal ulcer ) .
4 The pendant or hanging variety give good overall light but tend to flatten shadows and do not provide enough light by which to read or work comfortably .
5 The Jane Asher dinosaur cake was introduced recently and buyers inform us that dinosaur shaped canned pasta is now a possibility , together with existing canned lines of this kind .
6 During the spring and summer of this year the Chairman and members of the committee have invited presentations from a wide range of suppliers of financial services products and it is hoped in due course to publish both recommendations as to the type of financial services products members of the Bar should consider taking up and details of advantageous group insurance schemes .
7 Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs .
8 Scott-Kilvert showed his affection for Greece by serving for many years on the council and executive committee of the Anglo-Hellenic League , in due course becoming honorary secretary .
9 A year or so later his professional technique scored another success .
10 On July 25 the Croatian parliament approved 12 constitutional changes which in turn provoked a serious Serbian backlash .
11 It is such a pleasant change to have such a loyal employee .
12 Only a last-ditch struggle saved that fragment .
13 Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule .
14 The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 .
15 He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales .
16 The levels of NC protein used were chosen such that the higher level completely retarded DNA migration on an agarose gel while the lower level gave intermediate retardation .
17 A specific grant allows central government to encourage local authorities to pursue particular policies by making money available only for programmes of which they approve .
18 The paper details SNP ideas for a recalled parliament involving 150 members sitting on a Friday to discuss issues previously agreed by consensus .
19 I think you ‘ ll agree that his right as to what he does with that money supersedes any thoughts I may have , in the final analysis .
20 Thus in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , Dixon C.J. clearly had doubts as to whether it was right that money paid pursuant to an unlawful demand of the Crown should not be recoverable .
21 The oral shield is irregular in shape , the proximal edge is rounded and the distal edge may be produced and this region may be depressed ; in some specimens the oral shield looks pentagonal , again with the distal portion depressed .
22 Do you believe that Halloween has any kind of place with the devil or not ?
23 For example , if V I were twice V N inequality would decline as a result of the redistributive tax on capital as long as the share of capital in total income exceeded 20 per cent .
24 Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB .
25 This makes the hollow stem go rubbery for a few seconds , but then it just stiffens up straight as it cools .
26 MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 .
27 That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London .
28 The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built .
29 In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery .
30 Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses .
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