Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each Easter he made wonderful bejewelled eggs for the tsars or kings of Russia . |
| 2 | In due course it became apparent that all of mathematics could be made to rest upon a set-theoretic base . |
| 3 | The British Government have become spineless jellyfish who seem prepared to stand back and watch these Marxist death squads murdering their way through the people of Ulster not doing anything too ‘ adventurous ’ in case they upset friends in Dublin . |
| 4 | The potential for future economic growth depends partly on innovations in production technology , to reduce costs and , crucially , on innovative products which create new markets in themselves . |
| 5 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 6 | Presidential elections on March 20 brought into focus the conflict between , on the one hand , Taiwan 's claim to embody the legitimate government of mainland China , and , on the other hand , the problem that the ossified political institutions which sustained that claim lacked credibility and acceptance among the younger population in particular . |
| 7 | In the political field he supplied munificent financial support to the Liberal Party and its numerous causes . |
| 8 | It is possible to use cohesive markers which are incompatible with the sentences they are supposed to link ; the resulting effect is one of a cohesive text which remains incoherent . |
| 9 | They almost succeeded , so that by a combination of close range misses , poor handling and half-hearted rebounding they trailed 33-27 at the break . |
| 10 | During the course of the year there were only eight cases which got widespread coverage and sustained coverage of several days . |
| 11 | With little money they required financial backing and Brunner 's high business reputation , no less than Mond 's scientific eminence , was crucial for their success . |
| 12 | I , I mean er yes as soon as , when you start making political change I think that 's revolution really , I mean you 're , you 're not |
| 13 | Then there is a group of more technical reasons which make statistical modelling and extrapolation more difficult , and inhibit attempts to overcome a shortage of resources for direct measurement by statistical estimation of soil losses . |
| 14 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 15 | These values can be halved if the screen display is refreshed using the interlacing technique which updates each odd-numbered line of the raster every odd-numbered refresh cycle and updates the even-numbered rasters every even-numbered cycle . |
| 16 | Indeed , four of the eleven cases which got sustained coverage resulted in an acquittal . |
| 17 | The opposition also accused the government of being corrupt and of promoting economic policies which benefited neighbouring India more than Nepal [ see pp. 38681-82 ] . |
| 18 | Stability : this is a rock solid tent which stands rigid against strong winds . |
| 19 | Confident of his own mana , convinced of the legitimacy of his race 's presence in India , and equipped with political opinions which met those of Gandhi in a tightly interlocking pattern , in his own way , he , too , was the awaited one . |
| 20 | for anatomical reasons it proved impossible to cannulate the portal vein in four patients , two were referred for surgical intervention , and one patient has required further admission for transfusion because of bleeding from portal gastropathy . |
| 21 | He 's teaching me Russian and when I make a mistake with those awful adjectives he goes mad with rage . |
| 22 | However , the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons . |
| 23 | Here , is a procession of large mammals , with the birds ( seen at Barton Farm and Woodchester ) seemingly despatched to two narrow strips which lie either side of the main design . |
| 24 | Conference , I ask you , with that response what does that hold for our social services within our communities and how hopelessly helpless we must feel that given we will certainly not ? |
| 25 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 26 | In each case it seemed clear that local adaptation was taking place , showing — as far as Pearson and Weldon were concerned — that natural selection was an effective evolutionary mechanism . |
| 27 | The final document stressed the relationship between political pluralism and market economies and committed the 35 member nations to " endeavour to achieve " ( i ) free and competitive market economies with prices based on supply and demand ; ( ii ) fiscal and monetary policies which promoted economic growth and enhanced the ability of markets to function efficiently ; ( iii ) policies aimed at expanding the free flow of trade , capital and investment ; and ( iv ) the repatriation of profits in convertible currencies . |
| 28 | Strictly speaking , we are interested here only in one part of the market , that part which supplies local authorities with short-term ‘ money ’ through bills and deposits . |
| 29 | But you can have a number of breaks in the order and in that case you get another order at a different level . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have . |