Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 2 | In mid-turn all the weight will be on the inside foot whilst the other remains in the strap . |
| 3 | So Intelsat 6 is stuck in a uselessly low orbit until a space shuttle can be persuaded to collect it , or until it falls down . |
| 4 | To obtain additional internal volume and a satisfactory relationship between new floor levels and existing or modified window openings , the original ground floor , which consisted of two panels of suspended timber construction under the areas formerly accommodating pews , separated and flanked by strips of tiled floor on a solid base where the gangways ran , was removed to give a further 400mm ( 16in ) of height . |
| 5 | Registration can be confidently expected to occur in due course unless the company 's articles impose restrictions on the transferability of its shares . |
| 6 | This situation will change in due course as the younger generation becomes less and less involved in traditional family businesses and educational standards continue to improve , but for the foreseeable future job opportunities will exist for most nationalities in those parts of the Middle East where local populations are insufficient to meet the labour requirements of commerce and industry . |
| 7 | It is hoped to submit a formal planning application in due course when a further public exhibition will be held showing the final layout of the road and the public will again have an opportunity to comment on the scheme at this time . |
| 8 | She had n't needed to offer such a weak plea as a scratched finger after all , Isabel remembered . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the deal , which marked the first direct trading contact between the two Korean states since the Korean War of 1950-53 , the North would supply 30,000 tonnes of anthracite and 11,000 tonnes of cement in exchange for the rice . |
| 10 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 11 | Again the forecast shows cycles , but this time the worst-case curve shows that each successive peak is at a lower level than the one before and each successive trough is deeper . |
| 12 | The aisle is roofed at a lower level than the nave and the triforia have the function of masking the lean-to roofs which cover these vaults . |
| 13 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 14 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 15 | The judge having reviewed the relevant authorities said that a contract which contains an unenforceable provision nevertheless remains effective after removal of the severance of that provision if the following conditions are satisfied : ( a ) The enenforceable provision is capable of being removed without the necessity of adding to or modifying the wording of what remains . |
| 16 | IBM claims that the Power/4 implements a unique parallel processing architecture , with memory bottlenecks reduced by the use of local memory for each processor in addition to shared system memory , eliminating the need for continuous updating of the cache for each processor unless the data is actually shared . |
| 17 | The concessions impressed the public , but were worthless without a new policy decision at the same political level as the original one to re-introduce interrogation-in-depth techniques . |
| 18 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 19 | The relevant calculations are stored in the technical sub-files whilst the corresponding wall thickness is kept in the spatial sub-file . |
| 20 | A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view . |
| 21 | This also develops technical skills as the pupils learn to use the microcomputer while carrying out the project . |
| 22 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 23 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |
| 24 | The CFE talks in Vienna , however , had appeared to be making little progress since the eighth round began on May 17 . |
| 25 | It was not recorded before the year 1610 , and there have been suggestions that it brightened up abruptly at that time , though personally I am sceptical ; it would be a strange coincidence if the Nebula burst into prominence at just the time when mankind invented the telescope ! |
| 26 | Tensions in the Gaza Strip , which had been subject to a clampdown by the Israeli authorities since the fatal stabbing on May 25 of a 15-year-old Jewish schoolgirl by a Palestinian youth in the Bat Yam suburb of Tel Aviv , rose on June 25 when two Jewish vegetable merchants were stabbed to death . |
| 27 | It became clear during the piloting of the original interpreter training courses that there would be a need to train trainers with specific skills if the model were to be adopted on a national basis . |
| 28 | Many departments of radiology require a sigmoidoscopy before a barium enema , but this seems to be an unnecessary constraint when the indication for the barium enema is simply iron deficiency and when there are no symptoms of rectal disease . |
| 29 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 30 | The screen is bright enough at these lower voltages because the viewer watches from the side that the electrons strike the phosphor . |