Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1960s , partly through its own inner uncertainties and weakness , partly through a torrent of satire and journalistic exposure , the stable base of British public leadership , the pivot of civic culture for generations , was being undermined in government , industry , religion , neighbourhood , and family life . |
| 2 | As luminal SCFA maintain normal colonic absorption in acute diarrhoea , the decrease seen in faecal SCFA output may be of clinical significance . |
| 3 | Later it would be a solid mass of grey serge and flat caps , blue pipe-smoke mingling with the breath of 1,000 workers in the chill air . |
| 4 | Still others have argued that women 's oppression in capitalist societies is to be explained primarily at the ideological level as a result of the prevailing conceptions of passive and dependent femininity . |
| 5 | The normal forms of glaciated mountains are accepted by all as due to ice erosion and no one would seriously suggest that such features as corries , glacial troughs and overdeepened basins are still being formed . |
| 6 | The normal forms of express covenant contained in a lease include amongst others a covenant to repair by the tenant , and a covenant that the tenant will not sublet the premises . |
| 7 | About two thirds of DU patients have normal values of stimulated gastric secretion . |
| 8 | In order to establish appropriate normal values for overnight creatinine clearance and marker excretion , 50 age matched healthy volunteers were studied using an identical protocol . |
| 9 | Similarly the range of normal values for gastric pH monitoring has been derived from studies in 10 asymptomatic control subjects who had simultaneous ambulatory oesophageal and gastric pH monitoring . |
| 10 | Left and right struggle over familiar territory and all sides — including the ruling Apra candidate , Luis Alva , - vow to root out corruption . |
| 11 | Flicking back her head with a haughty toss of bright auburn curls , she walked to the door and flung it open . |
| 12 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |
| 13 | The foregoing explains a powerful method of analysis and assessment that the NRC requires to be carried out on a variety of systems within the PWR plant , such as the emergency feedwater system , ECCS injection and recirculation , containment cooling , actuation of safety features , the auxiliary systems on which these depend , for example the AC and DC supplies and essential service water and cooling systems , and they must allow for possible interactions between different parts of the overall system . |
| 14 | Staining times in particular are highly variable , and those given herein should only be used as a starting point . |
| 15 | Engineering geological support for onshore survey projects will be maintained . |
| 16 | Economic Strategies of Working Class Wives |
| 17 | A final statement on Sept. 10 expressed support for joint Arab action under the aegis of the Arab League , and for the Middle East peace process , for nuclear and chemical weapons non-proliferation treaties , for Iraq 's territorial integrity ( while criticizing Iraq for noncompliance with UN resolutions ) , and for the UAE in its territorial dispute with Iran . |
| 18 | THE PRIVATE PASSIONS OF PUBLIC FIGURES are a constant source of fascination to readers of the tabloid press and to students of literary biography alike . |
| 19 | The coming parliamentary session will provide a momentous opportunity for public debate on a matter of deep moral significance . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister issued the threat in private meetings with other EC leaders at the two-day summit , which ended late on Saturday . |
| 21 | There has recently been a revival of interest in changes in colonic motility in ulcerative colitis . |
| 22 | Eating is an important stimulus for colonic motility in healthy human subjects . |
| 23 | To see this , we must develop the idea of Biomorph Land as a mathematical " space " , an endless but orderly vista of morphological variety , but one in which every creature is sitting in its correct place , waiting to be discovered . |
| 24 | Occasionally , there erupts from the surface a squirming mass of waving and clutching hands . |
| 25 | It pursues the hostilities begun in the series 25 years ago and much of the old formula : attempted allegory to political developments on this planet ; loud space effects . |
| 26 | In this chapter , I attempt a kind of Which ? report on the supposedly more respectable forms of interior travel . |
| 27 | Near me , in a white open-necked shirt with short sleeves was a stocky , rather wooden-looking man , who gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling of only being at the party because he had to be . |
| 28 | It is the greyed inconsequence of peripheral events . |
| 29 | In Flanders , where the cloth trade provided an urban-based industry , the transformation of small centres like Ghent , Ypres , and Lille into the greatest cities of northern Europe was startling . |
| 30 | Large-scale maps can incorporate data obtained by dense sampling of small areas , whereas small-scale maps of offshore areas reflect the much lower sampling density possible is such areas . |