Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because chromatic notes have this power to create tension as they approach points of resolution , they are frequently used by improvisors to highlight the transition between two adjacent chords . |
| 2 | Britain 's political institutions need thorough-going reform : stable and representative government , elected Parliaments in Scotland and Wales , decentralisation of power to the English regions and to local government , freedom of information and a Bill of Rights . |
| 3 | With all this intellectual philanthropy , a Russian intelligence gatherer needs no covert skills to extract valuable information . |
| 4 | The only evidence offered by the Israeli authorities to support this allegation was the accusation made by a Palestinian caught in possession of 150 PFLP leaflets . |
| 5 | More likely , Sir Patrick 's business will be to continue Mr Peter Brooke 's painstaking attempts to find common ground among Ulster 's politicians . |
| 6 | Two other political phenomena deserve brief mention in this context . |
| 7 | Internationally , the industry is seeking to work with the World Health Organisation , the European Commission and other regional authorities to develop practical alcohol policies . |
| 8 | When they joined Wolsey Lodges — a consortium of private houses offering overnight accommodation — their transformation to hoteliers had begun . |
| 9 | ‘ We remain greatly concerned by the failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate this incitement to murder and to repudiate the bounty , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 10 | From the perceptual point of view , all stressed syllables have one characteristic in common , and that is prominence ; stressed syllables are recognised as stressed because they are more prominent than unstressed syllables . |
| 11 | FRIDAY : The management-employee buy-out bid at Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority was abandoned after possible plans to take legal action over the privatisation process were dropped . |
| 12 | THE NARRATIVE-purely descriptive notes have little place in your advanced study of History . |
| 13 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
| 14 | Lower values indicate reduced readability . |
| 15 | In fact , in Tanzania in 1984 farmgate prices for a mix of agricultural products using estimated market exchange rates were only 20 per cent of export prices . |
| 16 | Political and social controls remain as relatives of political prisoners suffer administrative harassment or become destitute . |
| 17 | The surveyor can easily assess the relationship between earnings on measured work and daywork , in order to verify the daywork hours , provided he is aware of the total hours worked each week . |
| 18 | A typical simplified bonus calculation would , therefore , be as follows : Total hours worked 40 Target hours for completed operations 50 Actual hours booked 35 Hours saved 15 % bonus payable ( 90% ) 13½ Hours paid 53½ |
| 19 | Naturally , professional statisticians have considerable skill and experience on how to go about this and enjoy the challenge of participation , particularly if help is sought from an early stage . |
| 20 | The book explores these consequences by asking how industrial relations in state enterprises respond to economic crisis and to attempts of governments to formulate political programmes to combat that crisis . |
| 21 | ‘ May I remind you that one of the largest groups receiving social security are receiving it not because they are neglecting their duty , but because they are doing it ? |
| 22 | I says , ‘ I 'll give you two bloody minutes to take that bottle away . ’ |
| 23 | But Chesterfield had no rich merchants to build fine town houses round the market place ; the more prominent families were not conspicuously different from the rest . |
| 24 | Other methods of dating that are useful in specific cases include archaeomagnetic dating , used to date ceramic materials that have not been moved since they were last heated , such as the clay floor of a pottery kiln or a hearth inside a hut or house . |
| 25 | It is a significant attempt to use spatial policies to co-ordinate existing research development and future innovations and to facilitate them on the ground . |
| 26 | The junior suits have separate sleeping and living areas and a south facing balcony . |
| 27 | Poor-quality eggshells indicate insufficient deposition of calcium and this deficiency was shown to have arisen because of increased soil acidification . |
| 28 | But this would be too simple an answer because there are many possible reasons to explain poor performance in the housebuilding industry . |
| 29 | THERE was jubilation last night after Gwynedd councillors threw out controversial plans to close three village schools . |
| 30 | Xerox Corp announced yesterday that it had developed an advanced ink-jet technology that uses a 128-nozzle print head for desktop computer printers , and that it has retained Tokyo Electric Co Ltd to assemble the printers ; Xerox is manufacturing the printers ' ink-jet cartridges at its Canandaigua , New York plant ; it notes that the 128 nozzles enable faster print speeds than competing printers ; the printer will ship later this year . |