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

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31 The demonstration remained friendly for several hours .
32 The proposals , described as the most far-reaching for 50 years , were expected to be the subject of intense lobbying from the financial and banking sectors when they came before Congress for approval .
33 I 'm usually very sore for two days after a race .
34 This is a beautiful , small twelfth-century room , used as a stable for many years after the depredations of the Revolution but carefully restored in the 1850s .
35 The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome .
36 The required yield from the division may then be stable for long periods , apart from variations in the level of interest rates generally .
37 The currency has been stable for six months .
38 The solution is stable for 2 weeks .
39 At first it was easy enough to evade supervision , and my weight remained stable for several weeks .
40 Heliposis , bought unraced out of Guy Harwood 's stable for 7,400 guineas last year , will now attempt to improve Hammond 's jumps total .
41 But some applications require data tracking in environments ill-suited for on-line solutions .
42 This organisation happily ploughs a furrow totally at odds with the notion of free trade , by making it as difficult as Possible for non-German companies to sell their wares in Germany without DIN approval — even where EEC law says that the only approval necessary is from the country of origin .
43 It is possible for such programmes to meet the objectives of organisations such as LEAs and TECs thus attracting additional funding .
44 Hanna showed that it was mathematically possible for such vortices to form under the right surface , wind and stability conditions and that such vortices would have the right sort of diameter , about 2 or 3 km ( I-2 miles ) , to explain the spacing of the dunes .
45 He conceded it was possible for such items , though manufactured in the Soviet Union , to fall into the hands of outsiders .
46 It is possible for such sentiments of approval of this past to coexist with abhorrence for most current acts of violence .
47 When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse .
48 Though the rich legacy of an extensive black presence on this continent suggests that it may be possible for many commentators , the terms ‘ black ’ and ‘ European ’ remain categories which mutually exclude each other .
49 The two major problems involved are related to the spelling changes that can occur when morphemes combine and the multiple segmentations that are possible for many words .
50 Major Stewart also made it possible for many sports clubs to have their own ground so all sport is catered for .
51 The provision of free secondary education did make it possible for many children to get more easily the education they desired .
52 By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables .
53 Secondly , and more importantly , the fact that some courts get by with comparatively few custodial sentences suggests that it would be perfectly possible for other courts to reduce their custody rates to this level , and thereby reduce the prison population .
54 Would it be possible for other areas to be given housing action trusts , in addition to all the resources and programmes that my hon. Friend has mentioned ?
55 Normally , however , one would expect the transport police to be responsible , but it is possible for other police officers to conduct tests .
56 It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers .
57 I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had .
58 I considered keeping observation actually on the flat but because of its its location , did not feel that it would be possible for armed officers or for that matter , any officer , to maintain observation for any period of time without being seen .
59 Given time , it is theoretically possible for all students to gain 100 per cent marks .
60 The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ .
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