Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Energy was the release of such power that 2.2 pounds weight of the material , plutonium , could in the event of complete fission produce violent strength in the muscle of physics that was equivalent to the detonation of 20,000 tons of conventional explosive . |
| 2 | The Jane Asher dinosaur cake was introduced recently and buyers inform us that dinosaur shaped canned pasta is now a possibility , together with existing canned lines of this kind . |
| 3 | Scott-Kilvert showed his affection for Greece by serving for many years on the council and executive committee of the Anglo-Hellenic League , in due course becoming honorary secretary . |
| 4 | A year or so later his professional technique scored another success . |
| 5 | Only a last-ditch struggle saved that fragment . |
| 6 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 7 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 8 | A specific grant allows central government to encourage local authorities to pursue particular policies by making money available only for programmes of which they approve . |
| 9 | Do you believe that Halloween has any kind of place with the devil or not ? |
| 10 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 11 | That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London . |
| 12 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 13 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 14 | Living on a low income requires strict budgeting and control over expenditure . |
| 15 | Dahl points out that a person with a low income faces greater difficulty in fighting a campaign than a wealthy person but that money is not the only factor when it comes to winning an election . |
| 16 | Each part covers one aspect of your beauty and has a wide selection cosmetics and beauty products selected individually for you by our Experts , and a Beauty Report showing how to use them . |
| 17 | US Cellular Corp saw third quarter net losses of $6m up from losses of $4.4m last time , on turnover up 66.5% at $42.2m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $1.7m down from losses of $26.2m last time , after $14.9m gains from the sale of cellular interests this time and $10.3m tax charges last time , on turnover that rose by 72.2% to $109.7m . |
| 18 | Their challenge , in common with three other teams of course members , was to propose a specific opportunity to reduce working capital . |
| 19 | The sections were washed with TBS for two successive five minute periods after each incubation to remove unbound antibody . |
| 20 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 21 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low key nature of United 's approach . |
| 22 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low-key nature of United 's approach — and Ferguson refused to say which twosome he would go for . |
| 23 | The complete ORF encoding this subunit is 4350 bp-long and , according to the nomenclature proposed for ASFV ORFs ( 11 ) , it has been called NP1450L ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 24 | In fact there was ample opportunity to achieve this objective . |
| 25 | With such examples in mind , it is small wonder that developing countries feel equally free to use countertrade when short-term necessity over-rides any sense of the longer term and less certain consequences . |
| 26 | Even normal breathing produces enough water vapour to cause condensation and mould growth |
| 27 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 28 | Thus , the observation that brief exposure to a flavour produces latent inhibition only at short retention intervals ( say 3–4 h ) whereas more prolonged exposure produces latent inhibition at intervals of 24 h or more is not in itself proof of the suggestion that different mechanisms underlie the two cases . |
| 29 | An advanced course develops existing expertise — exploring factors that influence the customer , business , produce and sales-person . |
| 30 | A white , descended from Corsican immigrants , Cipriani had sharpened his latent powers of leadership in the prolonged fight to get equal treatment for West Indian soldiers during the first World War . |