Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pungent metallic smoke filled the air . |
| 2 | I was sitting here yesterday mor day before , and that bloody picture snapped the catch , the catch on it , broken it and it just dropped straight down |
| 3 | Parts of the surface of the helmet were gilded , the boar , dragon heads , the nose and mouth of the face-mask , under surfaces of the eyebrows and the broad fluted strips flanking the crest . |
| 4 | Gordon Mitchell 's admirable technical accuracy involves the eye , but the lyricism innate in the best of Brenda Lenaghan 's work makes greater appeal . |
| 5 | At each possible information set the strategy employed by a player is an optimal response to the opponent 's strategy . |
| 6 | The first report of that working party assessed the problems in Great Britain , whilst the second report , published in 1975 , by Warren Spring Laboratory , Department of Industry , is a comprehensive summary to best present practice in odour measurement , prevention and abatement as well as planning , design and operation of factories and installations liable to produce unpleasant odours . |
| 7 | Agricultural tied cottages formed the largest category of this type of housing in 1974 , when there were an estimated 100,000 dwellings ( Shelter 1974 ) . |
| 8 | The Duke of Kent , the opera 's patron , and Sir Michael Tippett , composer and president of Kent Opera , both fought to save the company , the first in regional professional opera to tour the country . |
| 9 | Yet far less emphasis was given to Blakemore 's denial , later in the article , that salubrious consequences affected the ethical justification of his experiments . |
| 10 | This large degree of regional economic responsiveness served the developing economy well , in that the outcome was a provision whose components were complementary . |
| 11 | Widespread BIFs , such as those of the Hamersley Basin in Australia , would seem to have required massive and persistent microbial blooms to yield the tremendous quantity and uniformity of iron deposition within the basin . |
| 12 | This controversial political lineage caused the Republican Party establishment to disown him , and in several states there were plans to attempt to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot papers . |
| 13 | The prolonged dry spell meant the rock was warm and harboured no moisture — every crystal discernible through his roughened palms . |
| 14 | Broad beaming smiles keep the unity . |
| 15 | We now have an agreement from all those concerned — the colleges , consultants , juniors and the health service — and we must find practical arrangements in each working unit to complete the task . |
| 16 | Buxton was initially in despair at Stanley 's proposals but , judging that total rejection ran the risk of abandonment of emancipation , refused to divide the House on the principles of the bill on second reading and hoped for amendment at the committee stage . |
| 17 | — Total summering population includes the proven breeding population |
| 18 | Some of the mainstream Iranian press attributed the unrest to the economic situation . |
| 19 | Part-time male reservists do only sanger ( guard ) duty , either at the station or at other locations ; female reservists are restricted in the main to the guard room inside the station , with only full-time reserve policemen carrying the responsibility for a broader range of tasks , although few are involved in the paperwork for a case file . |
| 20 | Until then , let us seek to trade together , the Community with EFTA — I welcome the agreement to create a European economic area combining the two in 1993 . |
| 21 | It is still more likely than not that all EC countries will have ratified the Maastricht Treaty by the end of 1993 , and it can then be left to one side for a year or so while the easing of German monetary policy and a return to positive European economic growth ease the pains of convergence . |
| 22 | The low right-hand block held the boilers , the tall central structure the beam engine and the narrow left-hand building a gigantic wheel with slats that scooped the water into the river . |
| 23 | The many tall ogival windows provide the classrooms with a great deal of light but they have proved more difficult to protect . |
| 24 | The lower left-hand graph is the short-run aggregate production function and the lower right-hand graph illustrates the economy 's labour market . |
| 25 | Other less liquid liquid acrylics include the accomplished Liquitex from Binney & Smith , the high quality Golden Fluid Acrylic supplied by Russell & Chapple and TN Lawrence , Lascaux Studio , a range of very intense hues from AP Fitzpatrick and Lucas Cryl , a fine pigment acrylic available from Atlantis Art Materials . |
| 26 | It is well recognised that patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus represent the worst end of the reflux spectrum with the most severe forms of lower oesophageal sphincter and pump failure and consequently greater degrees of acid exposure . |
| 27 | This would almost make it only eligible for a speculative developer who reckoned he might be able to pull the right political strings to get the site suitably rezoned for a later sell-on . |
| 28 | These goals seem reasonable on paper but require a strong political commitment to ensure the accessibility of basic primary health services to the population and the existence of a clear vision of the minimum level of service that the state expects . |
| 29 | An ensign , however , might find the next step a little harder , while command of a company was rarely to be had without the ability to purchase the commission of a holder of a captaincy or very strong political interest to secure the place in an expanding army in a new battalion . |
| 30 | First impressions were all-important to the cultivated Georgian gentleman — the long meandering drive to display the land , the rich pedimented pillars to display the learning and quality of the owner , and then the entrance hall . |