Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A switch of a very subtle kind appears in another passage from The Night Watchmen . |
| 2 | Under such pressures it proved very difficult for monetary authorities to intervene in foreign exchange markets to ensure stable rates of exchange between all EC currencies . |
| 3 | The eponymous heroine is a raggle-taggle Romany wild child who leads a none-too-glamorous existence breading in vicious horses while starving ; but her escape is in dreams of palatial estates and clean petticoats . |
| 4 | I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies . |
| 5 | Certain of the various inert gas isotopes have to be excluded , some because they are of sufficiently low mass to escape in appreciable quantities from the terrestrial planets , others because they are produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes of elements other than inert gases , and others for both reasons . |
| 6 | Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work . |
| 7 | This guarantee covers only advance payment sent in direct response to an advertisement in this magazine ( not , for example , payment in response to catalogues and so on , received as a result of answering such advertisements ) . |
| 8 | This guarantee covers only advance payment sent in direct response to an advertisement in this magazine ( not , for example , payment made in response to catalogues and so on , received as a result of answering such advertisements ) . |
| 9 | The nature of delegated financial control is that decision making in these areas is moved from the LEA to the school level . |
| 10 | Today 's Chief Political Directorate stresses in interstate war the need to ‘ strengthen the indoctrination of Soviet soldiers in a spirit of high vigilance and class hate for the Imperialist aggressors ’ . |
| 11 | Two fifteenth-century icons set in beaten silver , studded with amethyst and quartz . |
| 12 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 13 | The emphatic denigration contained in this locational insult had to be heard to be understood , and in many ways it paralleled the dismissive tone used to deride the ‘ civvy ’ , for nuances of speech and tone have immense meaning to insiders . |
| 14 | It is of course quite plausible that the principle of monetary judgments applied in formulary procedure . |
| 15 | It can not be compared with the ‘ big six ’ national brewers ( Allied , Bass , Courage , Watneys , Whitbread , and Scottish and Newcastle ) , and it is significantly smaller than the main ‘ regional ’ brewers ( i.e. Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons ) , but it nevertheless retains a market niche as a regional brewery specializing in distinctive , good quality beers . |
| 16 | Popular pressure for political change mounted in 1990 . |
| 17 | The direct consequences of this dramatic political change differed in each state , but paralleled each other , consolidating each alliance 's power . |
| 18 | The theme was continued in the furnishings , which consisted of thick carpeting and a number of low sofas covered in sand-coloured linen , offset with candy-striped cushions placed here and there . |
| 19 | The fact remains , however , that there was a certain defensive quality in many Nonconformist discussions on their new buildings ; the Editor of the Baptist Times insisted in 1902 that ‘ today , under changed conditions , we are false to no principle and to no tradition in making our Sanctuaries beautiful as well as useful ’ . |
| 20 | A Decision is a binding administrative measure used in individual cases to implement the Treaties where the institutions themselves are responsible , such as the Commission decision to grant aid to the UK coal industry . |
| 21 | The two slower movements come off better , but even here the playing , thoughtful though it is , does not match up to the rapt quality which the finest artists achieve in this music , and the Scherzo surprisingly fails to take flight ( its Trio is plain dull ) . |
| 22 | Agricultural rural policies enacted in recent years and the trend of current debate indicate encouragement of farm diversification and the development of a wider rural activity base , increasingly environmental and conservation measures and a reduction in price support measures for agricultural commodities . |
| 23 | That institutions work in this way , contributing to the general status quo , becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 24 | What must be noted here is that much of the strength of the political ethos propagated in prewar years rested on its incorporation and distortion of concepts and assumptions whose origins were far back in Japanese history , and which were broadly unquestioned by the majority of the population ; and that it was firmly integrated with the social system and standard code of morality and behaviour . |
| 25 | However , once its sentencing decisions came to be regularly reported in the Criminal Law Review ( from 1954 onwards ) , the way was then open for the Court of Appeal to start laying down general sentencing principles for lower courts to apply in similar cases in the future . |
| 26 | Publication in the Chinese language of anecdotal cases treated in this way has not helped in disseminating knowledge about the use of traditional Chinese herbal medicines . |
| 27 | It was a strange experience to wait in that embattled and enclosed town , amongst the tense thousands . |
| 28 | Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman . |
| 29 | Whole populations of some European birds winter in particular British estuaries . |
| 30 | But I am unable to see , however carefully I reread the 1969 Act , that Parliament had in that year taken any clear stance on it . |