Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normal values encourage some patients to opt for less drastic treatments . |
| 2 | Sunken continents remained popular until better soundings of the ocean floor in the 1870s revealed the sheer extent of the elevation that would be needed to create dry land across the Atlantic and other major oceans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Labour proposals to extend urban boundaries to take in surrounding suburban and rural areas in a pattern of unitary authorities threatened the traditional Labour dominance in the major cities in the non-metropolitan areas . |
| 5 | Work done outside normal hours means extra costs . |
| 6 | Example 78 is a simplified version of these three chords , showing the orchestration : Note that the lower notes form tenths , without foreign notes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In so far as they encourage greater police intervention on picket lines or at demonstrations , and enable them to impose their authority on many aspects of community life , the 1984 and 1986 Acts have profound implications for the possibility of disorder . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The deterioration of relations between the two Korean states diminished any faint hopes of securing a compromise and Rhee ruled out using trade to improve contacts , UNCOK being left to reflect on the unstable internal situation and the combustible nature of the border along the 38th parallel . |
| 16 | A year or so later his professional technique scored another success . |
| 17 | Because chromatic notes have this power to create tension as they approach points of resolution , they are frequently used by improvisors to highlight the transition between two adjacent chords . |
| 18 | On July 25 the Croatian parliament approved 12 constitutional changes which in turn provoked a serious Serbian backlash . |
| 19 | It is such a pleasant change to have such a loyal employee . |
| 20 | Only a last-ditch struggle saved that fragment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr Freeman last week told the committee of MPs considering the Railways Bill that they will not ask private operators to guarantee off-peak services in areas such as Strathclyde covered by passenger transport executives . |
| 26 | The ending of the metropolitan top-tier authorities destroyed one of the advantages that led Redcliffe-Maud to support the Conservative reorganisation in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | More stable groups have multiple goals and review and renew their goals , giving them greater permanency . |
| 28 | The answer I believe continues to be that our economic and monetary authorities have less of an appreciation than others of the lags in the economy in particular between changes in interest policy and business investment . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the changing world of the late twentieth century , not even professional groups remain static and unitary . |