Example sentences of "[noun] and [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 2 | Mrs Helmsley , who began adult life selling cigarettes in a New York cinema , had become so unpopular as the details of her manners and penny-pinching management technique were exposed in court during her trial that her lawyers based an eleventh-hour appeal for mercy on her likely prison victimisation as a ‘ notorious , widely-reviled , vastly wealthy New York Jew . ’ |
| 3 | On this floor was located a braked sheave wheel and loaded mine trams were controlled by this means as they descended the Middle Level Incline ( still a conspicuous feature at Paddy End ) to the reception floor below . |
| 4 | On the Rinns besides the threshing mill mentioned at Kilchiaran , where the wheel and some machinery arc still in position , there are the remains of buildings , the goit and broken millstones at Nerabus . |
| 5 | Designed to improve practitioners ' management skills and understanding of analytical tools and new instruments , in particular those associated with hedging risks and overall Asset/Liability management . |
| 6 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 7 | However they point out that most of the recent studies in Britain indicate that when linked to pre-course qualifications maturity is likely to be an advantage in Arts and Social Science subjects . |
| 8 | Some areas are also fragile ecologically and , partly because of their isolation and low population densities , are extremely important from a conservation point of view . |
| 9 | By virtue of their isolation and limited land area , many small islands have undergone considerable environmental change much of which is a consequence of agricultural developments . |
| 10 | Much of this ( though not all ) could be attributed to the poorer socio-economic circumstances , loss of a parent , family isolation and curtailed parent-child interaction ( Osborn et al . , |
| 11 | Once more , this information in conjunction with the output characteristics and output-signal load line of figure 10.4(b) gives the output signal current and potential difference . |
| 12 | The relationships between these measures and family resources , child , family and parental characteristics and parental coping strategies will be explored using multivariable statistical analyses . |
| 13 | This project will investigate the characteristics and residential decision making of households living in the sector and the extent to which conversions comprise a first affordable step on the owner occupied housing ladder for young first time buyers . |
| 14 | ‘ Simply soak your entire family and any paying guests , pets and visiting gas meter readers in new miracle ‘ ZAPNIT ’ for fifteen hours and all traces of termite will be terminated . ’ |
| 15 | Insignia bought the Phoenix and ITI technology years ago and continues to hold the residual rights . |
| 16 | Insignia bought the Phoenix and Integrated technology years ago and continues to hold the residual rights . |
| 17 | For the purposes of the current project , the two major criteria were computational feasibility and rapid prototype development . |
| 18 | , Claude ( 1877–1959 ) , scholar , claimed to have been born 26 May 1877 ( his birth certificate counter-claimed 24 May ) in Handsworth , Staffordshire , the eldest son of Oswald Jenkins , cashier and later land agent , and his wife Sarah , daughter of William Palmer . |
| 19 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 20 | More than 400 children performed songs and other music items from around the world to parents on Monday and Tuesday night . |
| 21 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |
| 22 | A weekly exchange on progress , problems , people needing redeployment , opportunities , policy decisions , etc is needed between the policymakers and front line managers . |
| 23 | The belated correction : investment in agriculture will be increased by 30% ; curbs on the money supply will be relaxed ; loans will be given to exporters and indebted state enterprises ; ‘ specialised groups ’ will be set up to break ‘ debt chains ’ between enterprises . |
| 24 | Importantly , the comradeship of Service life can be continued into retirement and the welfare support of the Association and other Service charities can be readily and swiftly available . |
| 25 | Significantly , the comradeship of Service life can be continued into retirement and the welfare support of the Association and other Service Charities can be readily and swiftly available . |
| 26 | Gratitude that the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Rugby Union have apparently stopped insulting us with Scotland the Brave is not reason enough to allow them to inflict ‘ the people 's choice ’ upon us . |
| 27 | The joint Royal Air Forces Association and Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Appeal for Dowding House remained open for donations during the year . |
| 28 | To ensure Consultants had a first class knowledge of the industry , all were obliged to obtain the Financial Planning Certificate awarded by the Life Insurance Association and Chartered Insurance Institute . |
| 29 | He made a good living from his extensive knowledge of breakbeats and old funk records , and eventually Beats International evolved quite naturally out of his love of DJing . |
| 30 | MEMBERS of Ellesmere Port Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society will see a video by the Australian Finch Society at their meeting this evening in the Labour Hall in Heathfield Road , starting at 7.45pm . |