Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 2 | An embryological study of Carausius by Scholl ( 1969 ) confirms this , suggesting that the neck includes a dorsal labial component and a ventral prothoracic part , though Wada ( 1966 ) regards the neck of Tachycines as entirely labial in origin . |
| 3 | She had n't needed to offer such a weak plea as a scratched finger after all , Isabel remembered . |
| 4 | The distal oral papillae are large , triangular in shape with a broad base and a blunt tip . |
| 5 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 6 | A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view . |
| 7 | We can conclude therefore that both domain-specific collocations and a general collocation dictionary extracted from the LOB corpus make a significant contribution to the recognition process . |
| 8 | He declared that " probably no other branch needs economic freedom and a true market economy as keenly " , and he criticized speculation that the future of collective and state farms was in doubt . |
| 9 | The Fennell inquiry said London Underground senior management had ‘ narrow horizons and a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency ’ , being unwilling to take outside advice . |
| 10 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 11 | ‘ When you are a professional driver and a potential contender for the Championship , it 's difficult to switch off totally . |
| 12 | From the Villa Elena you can see no fewer than eleven extinct volcanos and a distant view of the sea , only slightly marred by smoke belching from an industrial plant two miles away . |
| 13 | He had flown to Manchester with his temporary Scottish foster mum and a social worker , who had given Gareth a thorough check-up for emotional problems . |
| 14 | He also warned of dire consequences such as hyper-inflation if the country failed to maintain a unified budget and a co-ordinated fiscal policy . |
| 15 | Overall , the effect of low taxes and a free market has been to make Britain far more enterprising . |
| 16 | If I had written the script myself it could not have turned out better : two European titles and a British record . |
| 17 | There was a right decision and a wrong decision , but it was for the king to make it , and if the wrong one were made Anselm would leave the kingdom . |
| 18 | A European Germany and a German Europe |
| 19 | " If only Toby had a little money or a proper job — he 's a sweet boy , but " |
| 20 | Ernest had no wife , no occupation , very little money and a huge white elephant of a house that needed ten thousand spent on it . |
| 21 | Among them were a 14-year-old girl , a pregnant housewife and a 63-year-old pensioner . |
| 22 | His platform photographs show him sometimes in a Blackshirt uniform like an army battledress , sometimes in a black suit buttoned tightly across his broad chest and a high-necked pullover , microphone clutched in his right hand , and left pushed into his jacket pocket . |
| 23 | What is more , a technical standard for representing letters which uses Bézier curves does not depend on any characteristic of the machine which is doing the printing : the same set of curves can be used to drive a professional typesetter or a cheap laser-printer ( though most fonts have to include ‘ hints ’ which help coarser machines interpret the curves ) . |
| 24 | He admitted that he had learnt of the Iran-contra operation in mid-1986 and had passed the information to his superiors , including Clair C. George , the agency 's deputy director for covert operations and a subordinate to Gates . |
| 25 | For those eight months I wanted a disciplined one-track existence and a focused mind . |
| 26 | His working clothes were bottle-green cords and a russet sweater worn over an open check shirt . |
| 27 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 28 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 29 | The Salvadorean women 's organizations which support the FDR-FMLN have not yet formed a united front , although there have been several initiatives in that direction and a growing recognition of the need to do so . |
| 30 | His movement should be balanced , harmonious , sure , Powerful and unhindered , with strong fore-reach and a powerful rear drive . |