Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's due for a trim but it 's a bit cold really . |
| 2 | And while work and study in all disciplines can range from the routinely normal through the critical and reflexive to the philosophical , philosophy exists as a distinct field of concerns . |
| 3 | By making it possible for a vivid and urgent desire for power to exist alongside a consciousness of being the legitimate and predestined possessor of it , they kept the edge on the governing classes . |
| 4 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 5 | However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families . |
| 6 | They are important in understanding the instincts lying behind people 's relations to ethnic , racial and nationalist politics but we need to become much more specific about the social and historical circumstances in which these latent feelings are actually felt and expressed . |
| 7 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
| 8 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 9 | The typical end-user of GIS output will probably care or know little about the cartographic and uncertainty characteristics of the map data being used , while the GIS itself has no procedures for handling the varying accuracy and reliability of the digital map data being processed . |
| 10 | Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops . |
| 11 | I am grateful for the hon. and learned Gentleman 's support in respect of the fourth Trident boat . |
| 12 | It is also built upon shared cultural , religious and political values , which take the relationship beyond a governmental one — the only relationship possible between the Soviet and Arab governments — into the democratic constituency of both states . |
| 13 | The landing ships are expected to be fitted with two twenty metre cannons each for the dangerous and vulnerable trip up to the Gulf . |
| 14 | It forms the basis for contempt on the part of the young and strong for the old and weak , and the increasing fear of human mortality which old age seems to represent so vividly . |
| 15 | And I 've no power of attorney — so any banker can take that as a good and valid reason for waiting until you return . ’ |
| 16 | We are twelve miles from the border agreed to in 1925 between the British and the Irish . |
| 17 | Hambleton 's development control officer Maurice Cann told the inquiry that the area was unsuitable for the elderly because it was industrial and noisy . |
| 18 | The eye is easily discernible in the developing foetus and the development of the retina is complete between the 28th and 36th week of pregnancy , except for the macula area which continues to develop until the baby is four months old . |
| 19 | The charge was : that between the 1st and 9th of september Mr Probyn did murder Tanya Probyn . |
| 20 | for er , I 'm selling that for a hundred and thirty |
| 21 | Goodbye to all that for the second and last time . ’ |
| 22 | Charles 's birth was registered fairly late in the day : a certificate was n't issued until 3 October , by which time Elizabeth was pregnant for the fifth and last time . |
| 23 | A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice . |
| 24 | He retired from practice at the bar in the summer of 1802 at the age of fifty after a long and painful illness , having made a fortune . |
| 25 | So you can say this for the maimed and the mangled . |
| 26 | It may be hard to accept , but the argument goes that it is easier for a creative and original performer to learn how to play his instrument than it is for a consummate player to learn creativity . |
| 27 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 28 | Her interests in the paranormal were unorthodox for a Communist but not unusual among the post-religious élite in Brezhnev-s Europe . |
| 29 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 30 | But , once again , they are loath to recognise this as a real and alternative response to the conditions confronting lower-class youth . |