Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Until well into the reign of Augustus the display of Greek art in Rome was more closely linked to political advancement and military might than to religious belief and aesthetic appreciation .
2 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the fabric of mid-Victorian hegemony was shattered by a series of structural contradictions , from economic retardation and industrial unrest , to growing socialist and feminist political militancy and intensification of anxiety over a whole range of social issues .
3 private clinics and first thing in the morning
4 He has his spiky hair , strong opinions and wacky humour .
5 I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them .
6 Research showed that West Germans were more concerned with technical reliability than good performance , and so advertising there was directed at technical features such as bodywork , engine power , braking performance , speed , petrol consumption and so on .
7 Carefully grubbied white breeches tied below the knee , open-necked shirt and spotted scarf tied untidily , lace up boots , he struck as much awe into the onlookers as would Sikes himself .
8 For over 40 years we 've built our solid base and sound banking system in the Tokyo metropolitan area , Japan 's vigorous economic centre .
9 Thus the pillbox garrison was immune to normal shell and machine-gun fire and was to a certain extent protected from the weather .
10 Figure 8.9 Hysteresis as insider-outsider phenomenon
11 Erm that this is an are the whole of this area apart from the east side where which is of course greenbelt , is an area which has been defined as a as a landscape which has suffered character character loss through agricultural change or urban intrusion of a major scale .
12 Therefore , the addition of P. anserina telomere-like sequences onto Tetrahymena templates seems to fully inhibit recombination between the transforming plasmid and chromosomal DNA .
13 Shinghal and Toussaint ( 1979b ) used a combined bottom-up and top-down approach to using context in text recognition .
14 The Network assists the growth and development of the European banking and financial sector , and bank training in Central and Eastern Europe .
15 But over almost 23 years in charge of BMW he has provided strong direction and real leadership — and never lost sight of BMW 's primary reason for being ’
16 The fine balance portrayed in this " socialist realist " novel between political struggle and metaphysical anguish places " Le Tombeau de Timour " and " Sindobod Tocikiston " in perspective .
17 The tense relationship that Nizan discovered in Soviet society between alienating metaphysical anguish and political struggle and social construction is clearly reflected in his writings of this phase .
18 The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms .
19 Abbey National 's winning formula includes excellent service , innovative products and competitive interest rates : the combination of which lead to the hat-trick in the recent awards .
20 But the broad facts of internationally diminishing status , linked with economic weakness and social division at home , was generally accepted .
21 Different attitudes are required , capable of rising above and not being muddled by the pressing detail of daily affairs , bringing broad experience and greater discrimination to bear on planning and development issues .
22 The er , revised estimate is one one hundred and fifty thousand pounds higher than the original estimate , and we 're expecting over three hundred thousand pounds into the specific grant and ninety-four ninety- five .
23 To avoid any inconsistency , it is economic earnings ( also called economic income or permanent income ) and not reported earnings that is the appropriate measure of earnings for share valuation .
24 Children often match the colours of their equipment , but sometimes the smallest spade is the same colour as the largest bucket and further conversation can be encouraged as they discover it is not always easier to fill a small bucket with a large spade , than to fill a large bucket with a small spade .
25 Well in er , this policy any time if you want to surrender so if you need er , some of the money , you can get that money or any time .
26 That chaos and old night
27 Between 1957 and 1979 he found that on such economic inputs as minimum lending rate , public-sector borrowing requirement , and public spending as a proportion of GDP and on economic outcomes such as inflation , unemployment , and growth , the record showed long-term secular trends , regardless of changes of government .
28 The 1980s saw a number of reports on community care that cited low funding and poor planning and coordination of projects as being responsible for the lack of a developed community care initiative to support all people , including the elderly , in the community in their own homes .
29 A series of courses , seminars and workshops are being organised to improve the technical skills and professional competence of the NBC staff .
30 A series of courses , seminars and workshops are being organised to improve the technical skills and professional competence of the NBC staff .
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