Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The levels of NC protein used were chosen such that the higher level completely retarded DNA migration on an agarose gel while the lower level gave intermediate retardation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 13 | Living on a low income requires strict budgeting and control over expenditure . |
| 14 | Low income equals low savings and investment , this results in a low economic growth and , because of rising population , per capita income remains low . |
| 15 | If she had been , she might have reflected that the Thames at low tide symbolises lost opportunities , the failures that are inseparable from other people 's successes , the blank misery that is too often the other face of the coin of commerce . |
| 16 | But the existence — and the prevalence — of this rich variety raises important questions about how children 's reading competence can become a match for the challenge it presents . |
| 17 | There is , according to Quinn , no single moment ( or relatively short period ) in which all the different aspects of the company are considered together and then each part given precise goals for the foreseeable future according to some tight , analytical , holistic master plan . |
| 18 | Their challenge , in common with three other teams of course members , was to propose a specific opportunity to reduce working capital . |
| 19 | It was felt that a political settlement involving agreed borders and arrangements for non-belligerency , a view later echoed by Resolution 242 , was more important , since these issues affected the security of Israel and the Arab states more directly . |
| 20 | Britain 's most destructive storm swept southern England in November 1703 . |
| 21 | The sections were washed with TBS for two successive five minute periods after each incubation to remove unbound antibody . |
| 22 | VI CORP OFFERS LOW-END UNDERCUTTERS — FOR GRAPH WIDGETS SUBSET OF DATAVIEWS |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low key nature of United 's approach . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The introduction of a pressure transducer to determine the temporal variations of weight in the water column above a specific level permitted electrical recorders to be used . |
| 27 | However , this has not prevented other European countries from establishing legislation which demanded component change to achieve desired results , and this is still a trend . |
| 28 | Third , in the light of Payne 's view that basic level professional qualification courses fail to address psychodynamic theory adequately , he suggests there is ample opportunity to create new courses utilizing CCETSW 's proposed framework for post qualifying studies ( CCETSW , 1992 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | An advanced course develops existing expertise — exploring factors that influence the customer , business , produce and sales-person . |