Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some can also help to strengthen thin and weak hair whilst others help hair look fuller and healthier .
2 I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air .
3 Persistent microalbuminuria — that is , urinary albumin excretion between normal values and values giving positive results with test strips — predicts diabetic nephropathy and is an early sign of kidney disease .
4 Activities included developing economic strategies and initiatives ; providing business support services ; improving the environment and removing barriers to economic development .
5 Texture was a matter of personal preference — some panel members relished heavy , sticky puddings while others preferred a lighter touch .
6 There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow .
7 Only because of Labour proposals and actions have schools managed to deal as well as they have with L M S. Congratulations , I say , go to the Labour Group .
8 It had n't been his fault that Bill Morgan , the vehicle examiner , had chosen to come in open-necked shirt and corduroys ; neither he nor Dom had cared a damn what their guests chose to wear .
9 Wearing a blue blazer , a white open-necked shirt and jeans , Newall listened intently as his lawyer battled to stop him being sent for trial in Britain .
10 Blufton had carefully manicured his image as a man of the people over the past couple of years , the sergeant went on , preferring to give interviews in an open-necked shirt and jeans — both with designer labels — rather than wear a suit .
11 Hence they are traditionally identified as the combined houses and workshops of resident craftsmen .
12 The Comoros presidential guard yesterday used teargas and clubs to disperse about 1,000 student protesters demanding that the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men go home .
13 The Comoros presidential guard yesterday used teargas and clubs to disperse about 1,000 student protesters demanding that the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men go home .
14 NORWICH In between screenings of such classic nasties as Teeth of Death , The Belly Film and Die Baby Die , comedians John Erwin and Geoff Green will be expected to gag ( comically speaking ) and the Norwich Women 's Soul Choir to sing .
15 ‘ I daresay you will , ’ said Nerina , waving cheerfully to the group of smiling students , brightly wrapped in woolly hats and scarves , who now approached her .
16 All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage .
17 The agenda for these meetings will be issued in due course and members are asked to retain their copy of the Draft Structure Plan to take to these meetings , as appropriate .
18 Even the popular teenager who rebels against parental values and goals is likely to return to them by the age of thirty or so .
19 Consideration of parental views and feelings , the need for a mutual relationship and negotiation , the sharing of information are all given low priority .
20 Coun Suzanne Fletcher , prospective Social and Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Stockton North , is pressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce VAT on environmentally friendly products and products made from recycled materials .
21 Over the years , however , the tribes have become increasingly marginalised and their rich cultures and traditions have barely survived .
22 Even here , as the fact of policing came to be established , opposition was not to the police per se , but to specific operations or tactics .
23 IDENTIFY RECEPTIVE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS
24 The most frequently perceived losses or problems are : 1 GP fundholding ; 2 The greater administrative complexity and costs associated with contracting ; 3 The effects of rapid timescales ( stress , information uncertainty ) ; 4 Some commercialisation of values ; 5 Uncertainties surrounding future restructuring and the intense politicisation of the NHS .
25 Secondly , the cases provided a kind of window into the prevailing rules and routines used by the executives .
26 Does this mean that the undergraduate curriculum essentially transmits professional norms and values , related to ideas such as expertise , autonomy , collegiality , service , and so on ?
27 Other contributions to continuity will be the existence of professional norms and values that persist over time ; the need to be responsible and accountable to Parliament ; and the constraints placed upon radical change by legal requirements .
28 An accompanying catalogue — designed by the artist — contains new essays by Rosalind Kraus and David Batchelor , together with a number of previously unpublished illustrations and texts .
29 ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on .
30 At the beginning of this chapter I noted how the distinctions made between political systems often emerged from current political conflicts and preoccupations , and this feature is very much in evidence in the political sociology of recent decades .
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