Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [subord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | International trade is complicated by the existence of sepa-rate currencies , each used as mediums of exchange within their own national boundaries . |
| 2 | He had no sense of foreboding , no intimation of danger ; on the contrary he felt light hearted , even light headed as vistas of freedom seemed to open ahead of him . |
| 3 | Despite attempts at mediation by the FSLN leader and former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , and by the Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , six people were reportedly killed and over 100 injured as gangs of armed supporters of the former FSLN government clashed with armed right-wing vigilantes ( among whom were former members of the contras ) during days of fighting in the capital , Managua . |
| 4 | OK , they 're old fashioned games revamped , but I 'm an old fashioned type of guy , and anyway , they 're not so much old-fashioned as classics of their types . |
| 5 | The meeting closed with the presentation of floral arrangements to two Kent teachers , Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman who had both started Medau in the early 50's as members of Dr. Anni Noll 's post-natal class and having enjoyed that introduction Medau became a way of life and they both went on to quality as Medau teachers and have both taught continuously in the Kent area ever since . |
| 6 | Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes . |
| 7 | Anselm and the king 's envoy had an inconclusive meeting with the pope , Anselm remaining silent while members of the Curia openly took the king 's side . |
| 8 | The Bush administration 's efforts to rescue the savings and loans companies ( " thrifts " ) [ see p. 36843 ; see also above ] faced mounting criticism in early 1990 as shortages of funds and operational problems — caused by an unwieldy bureaucracy involving 12 different agencies and vacancies in several senior regulatory posts — threatened to jeopardize the operation . |
| 9 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 10 | 1185 xx as number of contents is invalid . |
| 11 | The ordinary least squares focused model is pop 81 = 9.89 dense + 5.03 resid whereas specification of Poisson errors gives pop 81 = 10.93 dense + 4.82 resid Note that the estimated population densities for a 30 m square pixel for the two types of residential housing identified using the Landsat data seem reasonable and that this model can not produce negative population estimates . |
| 12 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 13 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 14 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 15 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 16 | These basic requirements were not often met , and teachers were confronted with , and expected to adopt , ideas which might be little more than expressions of officially endorsed belief . |
| 17 | A hotch-potch of alliances that were once little more than symbols of neighbourly intent suddenly matter . |
| 18 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , readers of the highbrow press found their papers scarcely any more useful than readers of the lowbrow press . |
| 20 | But those more than hints of fine ensemble playing were amply realised the next night in the Dvorak , elegant and warm , crafted with care , and in Strauss 's Serenade from Capriccio . |
| 21 | John Ngu Foncha , a former Vice-President , had on June 8 resigned as vice-president of the RDPC , protesting among other things at the shooting in May of six people at a pro-democracy demonstration in Bamenda . |
| 22 | The Fynn Valley professional has enjoyed little success so far this year — he has made the cut in just one tournament — and his latest downfall was in the Spanish Open where rounds of 76 and 73 kept him out of the prize money . |
| 23 | Alternatively , there is MID- CRED where details of all beneficiaries are established on our computer file , but authorisation is given in writing rather than over the telephone . |
| 24 | Apple spokesmen commented that Xerox 's software concepts were not protected by copyright any more than depictions of birds and trees are protected by the copyright on a painting . |
| 25 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 26 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |
| 27 | Lt.-Col. Désiré " Desi " Bouterse on Nov. 20 resigned as C.-in-C. of the Army , Early reports suggested that he had opposed a government decision to commemorate the deaths of 15 people murdered by the army in December 1982 [ see pp. 31950-51 ] . |
| 28 | It is , of course , better for both concerned if engagements of this kind can be avoided altogether . |