Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any , any strong opinions either way ? |
| 2 | You said when we bought those bloody birds last Christmas , ‘ I wonder how long it 'll be before we 're yanking all this apart again and halving the furniture and carving up the doves . ’ |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that if the Labour spokesman is unable to convert to Labour policies those business men in his immediate area , he is also unlikely to convince the country ? |
| 4 | Colwyn skipper Alistair Kitman has pinned up an unchanged side after two solid wins last weekend . |
| 5 | The revolution , through state control , has given agricultural labourers greater security and better wages by turning them into state employees . |
| 6 | With castles , mountains and historic cities such Eisenach and Gera , Thuringia is still very attached to its past . |
| 7 | While Soviet , liberal and libertarian accounts each attribute a role of enormous importance to the intelligenty , they differ profoundly over the significance of that role . |
| 8 | Gorbachev on April 12 issued a decree giving republican and regional authorities one week to annul all bans on the export outside their areas of raw materials and manufactures . |
| 9 | But thy strong Hours indignant work 'd their wills , And beat me down and marr 'd and wasted me , |
| 10 | In normal times that overlooker in a Preston spinning mill who , with his seven employed children , earned £4 a week in a week of full employment , would have been the envy of his neighbours . |
| 11 | And in addition , of course , much of his time — several punishing hours each day , since childhood — is spent in well-worn practice gear . |
| 12 | However , unlike Jess , who has made headlines for all the right reasons this season , Ferguson 's off-the-field activities have generated more publicity than his performances on the pitch . |
| 13 | For technical reasons spatial frequency is expressed in cycles per degree rather than cycles per centimetre . |
| 14 | Nevertheless in some of the most important European States social status became increasingly the passport to military rank as the century progressed . |
| 15 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 16 | Overall , armed with $500m in new capital from its state-owned shareholders this year and with the renewed growth in the market , SGS-Thomson expects its growth to surpass 20% , said the report in La Tribune . |
| 17 | The conventional Georgian houses each side of it were as high , but its neo-classical facade in Portland stone and brick dominated the terrace and the whole square , inalienably a part of them , yet looking almost arrogantly unique . |
| 18 | One of Stoddard Mercia 's largest and most prestigious contracts this year has been to supply the entire public area carpeting for Edinburgh 's hotel ‘ The Balmoral . ’ |
| 19 | At low frequencies Brownian motion can relieve the deformation caused by the stress before the next cycle takes place , but as the frequency increases the conformational change begins to lag behind the stress and energy is not only dissipated but stored as well . |
| 20 | Without unwritten rules civilised life would be impossible . |
| 21 | For economic reasons many consumer magazines are increasing their use of outside photographs . |
| 22 | Such cohesion was dependent also on all member countries achieving through their economic and monetary policies further convergence towards internal stability . |
| 23 | Trouble is , all the while he 's aiming to reap the monetary rewards American society generates for a film such as Hardware . |
| 24 | Degreasers : Although a suitable description for specific products this term is also applied to engineering products which contain mineral solvents and other chemicals quite unstable for use in food environments . |
| 25 | And and so we certainly do n't have strong views either way as to the need for the policy in principle but I can certainly see an advantage in having a policy in the right terms . |
| 26 | They have not been charged or tried and may be imprisoned because of their nationality , in retaliation for the Ugandan authorities alleged support of the armed opposition group , the Rwandese Patriotic Front . |
| 27 | European operations last year absorbed £2.1 billion of the total , which was a drop from £2.5 billion in 1991 . |
| 28 | ‘ He had a visit from some Iranian heavies this morning , ’ D'Arcy said . |
| 29 | True , Leeds do n't expect to score 10 against Stuttgart , their first round European opponents this season — but Collins believes Wilkinson can plot the downfall of the Germans . |
| 30 | ‘ We do have some strange requests one man came in and said can I have a Veronica Lake wig ! ’ laughed part-time assistant May Orritt . |