Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Silk Slippers may not enable Sangster to challenge the Arab supremacy , but an English Classic success after a five-year gap would come like manna from heaven . |
| 3 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 4 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 5 | This Congress had its roots planted in Paris in 1878 at the French Universal Exhibition when a hastily-assembled meeting of twenty-seven teachers of the deaf was arranged . |
| 6 | It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light , jazz-style accompaniment is required . |
| 7 | He had another good chance when a high ball landed at his feet at the 18 yard line with no defenders in front of him . |
| 8 | Next they went to another small machine where a foil cap was forced firmly against the neck of the bottle . |
| 9 | Medical evidence at present available points to the conclusion that odours per se are unlikely to have any direct toxic effect unless a person is allergic to a particular odour . |
| 10 | Crocker 's cautious approach to the electricity showroom , his quick sidelong glances , called to mind days long gone by when Wexford , then a sixth-form boy , had witnessed this same man as a child of ten , scuttling up to front doors playing ‘ Knocking Down Ginger ’ . |
| 11 | But what Suttles calls the ‘ public view ’ in fact stereotypes this same area as a ‘ back region ’ . |
| 12 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 13 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 14 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 15 | Ramsay was perhaps less respectful towards this lofty assemblage than a young knight ought to have been , in his concern for the Berwick situation . |
| 16 | Indeed , for some purposes its cheapness and speed make quota sampling a procedure which could be more extensively used in some academic research where a general indication of the attitudes extant in a specified population is required . |
| 17 | This has the implication that it is better to produce a sufficiently large population with low average happiness than a smaller one with high average happiness , since that way ( with a sufficiently large population ) the ‘ amount ’ of happiness will be larger . |
| 18 | Beggars ca n't be choosers : better to depend even on dubious private money than a criminal state |
| 19 | You also have nearly as much administrative bother as a full wedding ( see The Traditional ) without all the pomp . |
| 20 | This mode has been associated with the right hemisphere and tends more towards passive , visual processing , during which the overall emotional tone if a situation becomes paramount . |
| 21 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 22 | At one time , this rating was credited with almost as much scientific objectivity as a person 's blood group , but now its use is generally limited to self-diagnosis questionnaires in Sunday supplements . |
| 23 | An indirect tax could be justified in terms of pure allocative efficiency if a product were produced under conditions of severe imperfect competition — a monopoly , for example . |
| 24 | Mode of dress can communicate such diverse information as a person 's ethnic origin , religious affiliation , occupation or social group and Helman ( 1984 ) cites examples of even self-mutilation to the body to indicate ‘ group ’ membership such as the insertion of large ornaments in the lips or earlobes in Brazil , East Africa and Melanesia . |
| 25 | A word processor is so much more power than a typewriter you would n't believe it . |
| 26 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 27 | A ‘ desperate ’ candidate stands much less chance than a more relaxed candidate who goes into the interview knowing that she/he has other options . |
| 28 | An ambiguous rule will carry much less weight than a specific one . |
| 29 | Mothers often failed to recognise such inner distress as a sense of failure , feeling unloved , fears , phobias and obsessions . |
| 30 | Clearly there is more to such cross-species communication than a merely self-centred ‘ survival of the fittest ’ . |