Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two workshops there considered the CCAUK 's case for ‘ pro rata to instalments ’ , and the point was well taken , especially where debtors had a mixture of short and long-term debt and/or weekly and monthly instalments .
2 The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him .
3 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 .
4 PEPIT will follow F&C 's investment philosophy : intelligent use of gearing and cautious but steady buying into quality during turbulent or depressed and gloomy markets .
5 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 .
6 Biased interpretations have now and again been put forward as propaganda to promote a country or political or religious ideologies .
7 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 .
8 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 ;
9 This is a loose , disjointed organisation , riven by strife , which can flourish only where weak or corrupt politicians have lost the will to enforce the law .
10 In Chapter 8 we noted that an externality occurs where private and social costs diverge .
11 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 .
12 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
13 total loss by physical severence or complete and irrecoverable loss of use of either one or both hands and/or both feet
14 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 .
15 I had risen above him and was now in the state of dung-hai , or complete and utter superiority to Quigley .
16 It is surprising , therefore , that the concept should be alive and well in Germany , especially where economic and monetary matters are concerned .
17 It is appropriate to reiterate that where economic and social conditions are favourable and medical care available and sufficiently advanced , child health is less likely to be impaired by improper spacing .
18 The survey population comprised all those aged 65 years and over who were resident in any type of ward , hospital , home , or hostel provided by the NHS , local authority social services department , or private and voluntary agencies within Leicestershire at midnight on 27 November 1990 .
19 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 .
20 " 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 .
21 One is not going to run into any social or economic or moral consequences of quasars , but you will , if you work in DNA replication erm and other areas of the physical sciences .
22 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 .
23 They are the chief motor of history , undermining artificial creations such as states which attempt to impose solidarities on people , to claim their lives and property , for political or economic or military purposes .
24 Where textual or illustrative copyright material is to be included full information of the source of the material shall be provided .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 ;
28 It refines policies and initiatives , acts as a sort of ‘ vetting ’ process where unrealistic and/or misguided ideas are amended or ‘ sidelined ’ with the agreement of the staff .
29 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 .
30 Does my hon. Friend agree that the British-Irish parliamentary body , on which we both have the honour to serve , at least provides a forum where British and Irish parliamentarians can meet twice a year ?
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