Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 2 | Endoscopic sphincterotomy and basket extraction of the stones has been the most widely used technique having an overall success rate of 85% in clearing the ducts . |
| 3 | The oral shield has an obtuse proximal angle , indented lateral sides and a convex distal edge ; the distal portion of the shield appears enlarged , extending approximately half-way to the disk edge . |
| 4 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 5 | Each component forms an independent contribution and nowhere are these drawn together to explain the operation of the market in any overall sense . |
| 6 | Second , regional policies play an ideological role favourable to private capital : they present the economic recession as a problem of geographical distribution of jobs rather than what it is — a problem of simply insufficient jobs on a national level . |
| 7 | Towards the end of the campaign , Mrs Thatcher 's actions in attacking Heseltine personally and especially her allegation that he would introduce Labour policies gave an unfortunate impression of panic — reminiscent of ‘ Wobbly Thursday ’ during the 1987 general election campaign . |
| 8 | The nights belonged to the several extremist groups demanding an independent Sikh state . |
| 9 | WG 's last interim accounts included an extraordinary charge of just under £0.5m , covering legal costs relating to the case . |
| 10 | In a statement on Nov. 19 the Comoran Union for Progress ( Udzima ) announced that it was withdrawing support from its leader , President Said Mohammed Djohar , and going into opposition ; the statement accused Djohar of carrying out a political witch-hunt following an attempted coup and subsequent Cabinet reshuffle in August [ see p. 38378 ] . |
| 11 | More usually , however , each wave shows an elliptical strip of the sky , light , from the horizon , with a dark reflection in its middle ; the whole surrounded by the less dark but increasingly rich colour made up from the sky above added to the colour of the water itself . |
| 12 | To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley . |
| 13 | These experimental measures of intensity can be related to the wavefunctions for the upper and lower states using an integral known as the transition moment , Dif , which is of the form where ψi and ψf are the wavefunctions for the initial and the final states and M is the dipole moment operator , which can be obtained from symmetry tables . |
| 14 | The latest Treasury review of economic progress provided an optimistic picture , with shop sales on an upward trend and overall activity apparently slightly stronger than current official forecasts |
| 15 | If the combined ranks give an equal result , using the combined probabilities to order those allowable candidate strings with the same ranks gives good results ( see section 2.3 for details of ranks and probabilities ) . |
| 16 | The objectivity of the internal auditor is seen in terms of each auditor having an objective attitude of mind and being able to exercise judgement , express opinions and present recommendations with impartiality . |
| 17 | The video in each case showed an unobstructed view through the windscreen of a car during the drive through the junction . |
| 18 | Versatile midfielder ‘ super Alan Pardew ’ joined The Eagles from Yeovil Town for a mere £7,500 in 1987 and made tremendous progress with the Palace , so that he missed only one match during our 1988–89 promotion season , for which his drive , energy and cultured right foot provided an invaluable component , and just two games upon our return to the 1st Division in 1989–90 . |
| 19 | In the first half of the nineteenth century , the age-old struggle to reconstitute an ancient text from imperfect manuscript copies was , for the first time , given a proper basis : methodical study of the manuscripts ' interrelationships . |
| 20 | After the miraculous discovery that constant tugging at the organ produces a highly pleasurable sensation , the adolescent male develops an insatiable appetite for sexual self-abuse . |
| 21 | A regional settlement remains an important and realistic aim . |
| 22 | Here it will suffice to note that this kind of investigation , employing techniques quite alien to the dominant tradition in linguistics , has revealed that conversational interaction has an elaborate and detailed structure of which we have very little conscious awareness . |
| 23 | Since then , the Conservatives ' system for electing a leader has effectively removed this power from the monarch , and providing each election produces an outright winning party , her actions are pretty well preordained . |
| 24 | It is now clear that the construction of the small-town defences provided an additional influence on their morphological development , depending upon the inclusion or exclusion of particular areas . |
| 25 | These Scudéry-influenced romances played an important part in the genesis of the English novel . |
| 26 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 27 | Time spent outside this range for longer than the 90th percentile in normal subjects implies an abnormal pH exposure . |
| 28 | The 1980 WIRS contained an identical question on the use of fixed-term contract workers as did the 1984 survey ( the question on the use of agency workers was not consistent ) . |
| 29 | Each episode includes an enthralling children 's story full of magic , mystery , and music ; a ‘ language insert ’ which breaks into the story to give direct language practice ; and a song to practise the vocabulary and structures being taught . |
| 30 | It is just unfortunate that reality obliges him , instead , to contemplate the tiresome possibility that the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power in a Parliament in which neither Tory nor Labour parties have an overall majority . |