Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , Joanna might get a bit depressed if very little farm work came along , but maybe Robert Sheldrake 's gloomy prediction would prove to be wrong . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , unless the transaction is a management buy-in , for which it is appropriate to ask for a full set of warranties , a reasonable compromise is for the vendor to give the purchaser a set of warranties shorter than normally appropriate on a share sale . |
| 3 | At present around 177 such patients are detained under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity ) Act 1964 while approximately 74 patients are similarly detained under earlier analogous legislation . |
| 4 | The new post-coup Constitution , promulgated on July 25 after nearly two years of consultations , established Fiji as a sovereign , democratic republic with a bicameral legislature . |
| 5 | Dating baked clay and burnt stone are perhaps the most interesting archaeological applications of TL , because these — in particular burnt flint — allow the dating of sites older than about ten thousand years , when the first pottery began to appear . |
| 6 | A law giving the government the power to lift bans on direct links with China and to exchange representative offices was adopted by the Legislative Yuan , or parliament , on July 16 after almost two years of debate . |
| 7 | By extending the playing time on the same uncovered , bland pitches , you merely prolong the attrition , with no technical benefit other than individually longer innings plus longer spells from spinners on discouraging surfaces . |
| 8 | Although Lord Cairns regarded the principles applicable as extremely simple , it seems clear that the common law was faced by a new and important problem which could not be solved by merely applying the existing authorities . |
| 9 | As King Hassan celebrated the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne on March 3 , officials disclosed that the eight members of the family of the late Gen. Mohammed Oufkir had been released on Feb. 27 after over 18 years in detention . |
| 10 | He admitted confronting a woman on Wimbledon Common while completely naked apart from sunglasses . |
| 11 | Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock . |
| 12 | Majority more than over half just got passes . |
| 13 | In a very real sense , the SD Ribbon is what you make of it , and should be shortlisted , subject to the remarks made above , by those with ( or contemplating purchasing ) a high performance system costing in excess of £4000 or so , and with rooms larger than about 4 x 3 meters . |
| 14 | Imelda Marcos , widow of the deposed President Ferdinand Marcos , returned to the Philippines on Nov. 4 after almost six years in exile in Hawaii . |
| 15 | A mixed population of ECL cells and cells resembling P cells by the granule size was observed in patient no 5 while very heterogeneous cellular proliferation with a prominent ECL cell component was found in a fourth case ( case no 1 ) . |
| 16 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 17 | The team found that this salt is a superconductor at temperatures lower than 2 K , and pressures greater than about 4000 atm . |
| 18 | The success of this initiative came to be measured in terms other than purely personal achievement on the part of numbers of blacks learning to read and write . |
| 19 | Research theses and postgraduate courses can fulfil ends other than purely educational ones ; but they can not become , as part of higher education , simply instrumental , whether in the direction of academic careers or professional careers . |
| 20 | The presence of atrophy was strongly associated with H pylori infection : 10 of 11 old subjects with atrophy were H pylori positive whereas only one of 12 who were H pylori negative had atrophy ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 21 | However , when ED is 200 cm -1 , the ratio is 0·34 ; therefore a sample of a compound with a vibration of frequency lower than about 300 cm -1 has a significant proportion of its molecules in vibrationally excited states . |
| 22 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 23 | At wavelengths shorter than about 104 nanometres , there are no materials suitable for use as windows to transmit the radiation into the vacuum chamber . |
| 24 | Second , and more commonly , there are less heavily cratered areas in which there are fairly well-spaced craters larger than about 20 to 30 km diameter , the spaces between being called intercrater plains . |
| 25 | All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users . |
| 26 | By contrast these areas are rolling plains bearing many craters smaller than about 10 km diameter plus a few craters with diameters in the range 10 to 20 km . |
| 27 | In that year em waves from Venus at radio wavelengths greater than about 10 mm were detected by means of radio telescopes . |
| 28 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 29 | [ For his return to Namibia in September 1989 after nearly 30 years of exile see p. 36885 . ] |
| 30 | The M4 has been a bit slow although only eastbound , and the M25 is still a bit sluggish at the Thames Valley because of an accident , mainly on the clockwise carriageway by the M4 interchange , it 's just er a little slow with a couple of miles queue either side of the M4 interchange itself . |