Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France . |
| 2 | Interest will be charged at the rate of 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period . |
| 3 | We would levy the charge at 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period . |
| 4 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |
| 5 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 6 | Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 7 | Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section . |
| 8 | NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 9 | Thankfully she made a quick and full recovery , and was outstanding for the Irish Under-21s at last month 's Home Countries Championships . |
| 10 | As might be expected the agreement was greatest for the unambiguous cases of severe dementia and diminished as the diagnosis became less clear cut . |
| 11 | TWO British actresses , Elizabeth Hurley and Lysette Anthony , have been short-listed for the leading female role in Gone With The Wind II : Scarlett . |
| 12 | Seen here at Dean Martin 's facility at Burlington , Vermont , is the first of the L38Cs due for the Black Hawks team . |
| 13 | May 1995 Elections are due for the new authorities |
| 14 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 15 | I was quite apprehensive about the whole NCT ‘ scene ’ . |
| 16 | She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school . |
| 17 | The trade was sufficiently profitable for the Portuguese to take over Sofala in the early sixteenth century , and their written accounts confirm that the export cargoes were brought to the coast by African representatives of the Shona king or monomutapa . |
| 18 | Doug Williams , a manager in the bank 's insurance group , says the operation has been profitable for the past two years and is already seen as a significant part of Chase 's retail service . |
| 19 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 20 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 21 | If a planning authority wished to restrict its activities , it was held that it was only right for the extra costs to be reimbursed . |
| 22 | We liked this little scene for the corner of a patio : the cane chair is just right for the simple planting around it and extra interest is created by using a large limestone boulder , gravel and creeping plants such as thyme . |
| 23 | ‘ But at the time , I did n't think the four years I had spent at Westminster Hotel School , learning to make classic garnishes , was right for the Golden Egg . |
| 24 | But I like Danny Bascombe , and I believe he 's right for the changing face of Barbados . |
| 25 | On the major question of the legal basis for pension schemes in the future , Mr. Murphy said ‘ The Working Party consider that the principles of trust law appropriately updated , continue to be valid , but we think it would be right for the central principles of trust law to be re-stated and put into the context of pension schemes . |
| 26 | The Junior Gaultier collection presents his ideas with more of a sportswear or street feel , more for club-goers and it 's just right for the new designer room we have opened at our branch at 362 Oxford Street in London . ’ |
| 27 | The time was right for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to do so today , but they did not . |
| 28 | Aristotle was right for the wrong reasons . |
| 29 | In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons . |
| 30 | What was good enough to contain Al Capone , he could then assure the Prime Minister , should be right for the English yob . |