Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once knew a Yorkshire terrier where even the word ‘ walkies , sent him into gyrations of joyous bouncing and tail wagging . |
| 2 | Our strong regional and branch structure is a tremendous asset and I pay tribute to the many members centrally and regionally who give a great deal of voluntary time to the profession and their Institute . |
| 3 | In such cases , it may be quite difficult to distinguish hyperkinetic syndrome from normal' behaviour — emotional upset and misconduct may be due to family tensions , lack of discipline , an unsettled home life , difficulties at school , or a great variety of other causes . |
| 4 | This is why you should be as free from emotional upset and involvement as possible when taking it . |
| 5 | It should shift away from narrow economic and workplace concerns to embrace a broader view . |
| 6 | Overseas , Wimpey Construction Management is carrying out fee-based technical and management services for the £200 million Colombo Centre project for Sonae Group in Lisbon , Portugal and will vigorously attempt to develop further this market in 1993 , a market which will also provide opportunities for the consultancy arm of GROVE PROJECTS . |
| 7 | Established school boards — governing bodies for Scottish schools , with strong parental and community representation . |
| 8 | The complete normal and emergency stabilizer trim systems operated normally when functionally checked on the aircraft after the accident . |
| 9 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 10 | A fresh set of agreements on Vietnamese-Soviet economic and trade relations for 1991 was signed on Jan. 31 . |
| 11 | Combined junior and infant schools |
| 12 | And eventually , Guinness as we know it , rich subtle and dark , is ready to see the light of day . |
| 13 | According to Izvestiya of May 29 , Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev had announced that the withdrawal of the 14th Army had been agreed ; the timescale and conditions were to be discussed at the quadrilateral Foreign and Defence Ministers ' meeting , postponed from May 29 . |
| 14 | The sharp style of leather and suede is an essential this season ; stand by with a wardrobe of contemporary classics including shirts , jeans and western-style jackets in black , rich brown and tan . |
| 15 | I muttered something about not wanting to trample over the very different memories they must all have of Conor , talked a little about the family 's surprise at finding that their son had such an extensive social and business life . |
| 16 | The London-based Social and Community Planning Research organisation was commissioned nine months ago to carry out a special study of Employment Training . |
| 17 | The mechanisms which link low fetal and infant growth rates with disease in adult life are not defined . |
| 18 | [ Relevant documents : The fourth report from the Social Security Committee of Session 1990-91 on the Financing of Private Residential and Nursing Home Fees ( House of Commons Paper No. 421 ) and the first report from the Health Committee of Session 1991-92 on the above report ( House of Commons Paper No. 28 ) . ] |
| 19 | It is my privilege to open the debate on the report of the Select Committee on Social Services into the financing of private residential and nursing home fees . |
| 20 | the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation . |
| 21 | The other is that efforts to forge a European foreign and security policy ( loudly backed in principle by the Germans ) may be doomed . |
| 22 | In December , you hear people say , the Community was talking loftily about putting together a common European foreign and security policy ; but when the war started in January , they all went their separate ways . |
| 23 | In a shaft of sunlight a pair of speckled wood butterflies pirouetted , velvety brown and cream . |
| 24 | , chief executive , Coatings Central Europe , with responsibility for the European marine and yacht markets . |
| 25 | This decade has seen the old bogey of progressive rock gradually replaced by progressive pop : the site for left-liberal well-meaning and pensiveness has shifted from concept albums and pomp rock , to the three-minute song and pop soul . |
| 26 | Officials also foresaw the creation of a regional parliament and a peacekeeping force , and hoped that member states would eventually adopt unified foreign and defence policies . |
| 27 | Whilst we agree that demand for boat moorings is likely to grow , we believe the solution does not have to take the form of the ‘ designer ’ marinas of the 1980s , where extensive residential and leisure development were required to finance the capital investment in pontoons and related marina works . |
| 28 | COURTAULDS is buying a Spanish marine and yacht coatings business in a move to strengthen its hand in southern Europe . |
| 29 | The explanation is better sought in the specific social and material circumstances and their articulation with political and ideological structures . |
| 30 | To protect and preserve this unimaginably rich architectural and design heritage is a matter of the utmost urgency . |