Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museums are part of an educational system , and part of the entertainment industry ; and the problem was particularly acute in scientific museums , where botanical and zoological research was going on . |
| 2 | Ideas and institutions were just as much a part of the ‘ given ’ facts of European society between 1880 and 1914 as were geography , or political and economic structure , but they are much harder to measure . |
| 3 | Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message . |
| 4 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
| 5 | The time of germination , flowering , fruiting , or leaf-fall and general senescence , may be determined by day length — for day length , after all , is a much more reliable indicator of the time of year than temperature is , for example . |
| 6 | OVER 100 ALKALOIDS HAVE BEEN ISOLATED IN THE ROSY PERIWINKLE , INCLUDING VINBLASTINE & VINCRISTINE — SUBSTANCES WHICH HAVE REVOLUTIONISED THE TREATMENT OF HODGKIN 'S DISEASE & ACUTE & LYMPHATIC LEUKAEMIA |
| 7 | total loss by physical severence or complete and irrecoverable loss of use of either one or both hands and/or both feet |
| 8 | Talk to many a railwayman about the Blea Moor Tunnel and you will find either a spontaneous reaction of a flow of stories or complete and total silence . |
| 9 | I had risen above him and was now in the state of dung-hai , or complete and utter superiority to Quigley . |
| 10 | Three key dimensions are recognized as specific to runaways : age ; absence of permission to leave or covert or forcible ejection ; length of time since leaving . |
| 11 | " Lack of care for the consequences of exuberant reporting is not malice and nor is mere inaccuracy or a failure to make inquiries or accidental or negligent mis-quotation . |
| 12 | It is a main way in which cultural production can be related , often very precisely , to social classes and other groups which can also be defined in other social terms , by political or economic or occupational analysis . |
| 13 | Where textual or illustrative copyright material is to be included full information of the source of the material shall be provided . |
| 14 | He was born into the lower-middle-middle or upper-lower-middle or middle-lower-middle class of our hey diddle diddle society , and an adoring mother and a witty but ‘ hilariously unambitious ’ father brought up their only son on rectitude , decency and the mid-century Englishness of tea , quietness , the Daily Telegraph and Somerset cricket . |
| 15 | Many low-income LDCs have no access to market funds ( bank loans or bond issues ) and must therefore rely on concessionary funds or multilateral and bilateral aid . |
| 16 | any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war or not ) , civil war , rebellion , insurrection , military or usurped power or confiscation , requisition , or destruction of or damage to property by or under the order of any government or public or local authority ; |
| 17 | The parties to a conflict remain , moreover , parts of a single society by virtue of their acknowledgement of a common name , by their participation in certain common divisions of labour and allocation from which they can not extricate themselves except by secession , emigration or anchoritic or cenobitic withdrawal . |
| 18 | Adult opinion has swung back and forward as to the value of one method or another and sheer fashion plays a part in determining feeding methods from one generation — or one decade — to the next . |
| 19 | A layer of peat and gravel , or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium . |
| 20 | It is not realised that in the seventies property crash only three major quoted property companies failed , Guardian Properties , Town & Commercial and Amalgamated Investment & Property . |
| 21 | Where half or full board has been booked , flight timings may necessitate the loss of one meal ; in such cases the holiday price has been reduced to compensate . |
| 22 | No matter how ‘ good ’ the ideas of a fat or old or disabled woman , our sexual choices are limited . |
| 23 | Liberal politicians led by Gladstone remained convinced that state action posed a danger to individual freedom , and would rarely assist economic growth or social or moral improvement . |
| 24 | Even a slight knowledge of modern political or social or religious history will make us accept this truth , sadly . |
| 25 | If war was a means of achieving peace , or social and political harmony and order , how compatible were the activities of many soldiers with that aim ? |
| 26 | This attention to the total psychological development of the child is indeed a new phenomenon , in that earlier generations of parents have been chiefly preoccupied by the related themes of physical survival and moral growth , rather than with concepts of mental health or social and emotional adjustment . |
| 27 | It enables the counsellor to focus upon the changes brought about by changing diet , medication , or social and psychological circumstance . |
| 28 | The fact that many syllabuses and teachers ' books are full of relevant and challenging content and that in every country schools can be found where interesting and exciting work is in progress , must not obscure the central problem . |
| 29 | Snow-capped mountains , the River Limmat and the blue Lake Zurich lend their charms to this beautiful Swiss city where old and new blend in absolute harmony . |
| 30 | Thatcherism makes intellectual liberty just another commodity , to be enjoyed when there is no particular political or commercial or administrative price to be paid for it , but abandoned , with no evident grief , when the price begins to rise . |