Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 2 | Sailing along at forty five degrees to the wind the sail is in tightly and it needs constant adjustment on the tiller to stay on that right course because the wind is never totally steady . |
| 3 | The larger finance houses were expected to adhere to a slightly lower reserve ratio than the banks ( 10 per cent rather than 1 2.5 per cent ) but the reserve asset requirements would be the same as for the banks . |
| 4 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 5 | Data deficiencies pose least problems at the broad regional scale because the various sources provide relatively firm ground for examining the latest developments in the balance between North and South . |
| 6 | Prizes , by and large , are a sick joke , whether they are the means of international whitewash , the reward of some such private professional body as the Royal Academy ‘ looking after its own ’ ( as the President once described the business there ) , or the promotional gift of some large commercial enterprise . |
| 7 | Gilbey , who has been her greatest emotional support since the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles , broke the news himself in a telephone call to Kensington Palace . |
| 8 | Whether , in operation , such a tax would have lower administrative costs than a personal income tax depends on the details of the tax . |
| 9 | While firmly governed by the discipline of the market place , this would offer its own third way between the glaring inefficiencies of state capitalism , Italian style , and the short-comings of classic private enterprise where the interests of employees can be so easily trampled upon . |
| 10 | Yet the European political reality until the twentieth century was one of disunity and conflict , culminating in the two World Wars . |
| 11 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 12 | The movement into the work-force by married women has been one of the most startling and far-reaching social changes since the Second World War . |
| 13 | These Eoka guns were used to kill more than fifty British soldiers before the Republic of Cyprus was formed . |
| 14 | With a rope break , the climb out is at the normal towing speed when the rope breaks , whereas when engine problems occur the tow is usually slow and the climb is far worse than normal . |
| 15 | PP : I understand that Barclays is the largest European lender to the Philippines with loans totalling over $384 million and that in 1987 you refused to sign a loan extension agreement between the Philippine government and 500 commercial creditors unless the $57 million debts of a private company , Planters Products PLC , were assumed by the government . |
| 16 | One possibility is that platy minerals favoured in mylonite zones have lower seismic velocities than the country rocks and that this , coupled with their strong preferred orientation , favours reflection ( Fountain , Hurich , and Smithson 1984 ) . |
| 17 | But , suddenly , there are more compelling reasons than ever before for wanting to reach that elusive shore where the native words are friendly and easy to learn . |
| 18 | Deep-sea cores potentially provide a complete stratigraphical record whereas the continental record is necessarily less perfect . |
| 19 | Another reason given for increased central control — and one which I have heard frequently in Tanzania — was that there was a danger of confusing illiterate peasants if the media did not speak with one voice . |
| 20 | There were also sergeants or armigers who were mounted warriors , upon light horses , with light armour , and of a lower social status than the other mounted fighting men . |
| 21 | The largest spontaneous demonstrations since the Cultural Revolution erupted not , as usual , on the Beijing campuses but in the provincial universities . |
| 22 | It turned out , however , that the police had heard about possible sexual abuse before the father appeared in court on the physical abuse charges . |
| 23 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 24 | The question is not so much that of understanding the cause , but rather one of eliminating the possibility of cyclotron ion resonance brought about by AC field in a domestic or normal commercial environment where the only prevalent DC magnetic field is that provided by the Earth itself . |
| 25 | No nation and no government has been more conscious of the need , as they perceive it , to build barriers protecting European civilisation against American and Japanese audio-visual cultural imperialism than the French . |
| 26 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 27 | Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution . |
| 28 | The main streets offer dignified Georgian facades whilst the narrow lanes behind abound with charming old cottages . |
| 29 | ‘ This has to be one of the most exciting textual discoveries since the Second World War . |
| 30 | The feeling is that no amount of legislative safeguards can entirely eliminate the risk of a chemical spill , wreaking havoc in this watery landscape where a network of mountain streams fed by high rainfall could quickly wash the damage into the drinking water , or down to the mussel farm and salmon fishery at the mouth of Killary harbour . |