Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city was fairly silent , quieter than usual due to the great tournament at Smithfield . |
| 2 | The government also proposed to introduce debt-waiver on loans of up to Rs10,000 for small farmers and allocation of up to 50 per cent of available resources for investment in the agricultural sector and rural development--one of the National Front 's election promises . |
| 3 | The decline was particularly marked in the Black Forest and in the Bavarian National Park in southern West Germany , an alpine region close to Austria and Switzerland , where fir decline may have slightly predated that in the Black Forest . |
| 4 | Perhaps the best known play , and eventual film , about mental handicap was ‘ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg ’ based on the true-life story of Abigail , born to the playwright Peter Nichols , and born a spastic due to a difficult birth . |
| 5 | Extreme examples are provided by the Peruvian desert , normally very dry due to the cold northward-flowing Humboldt current along the coast . |
| 6 | Hence , for example , children wet the bed — usually for a very brief period — for a variety of understandable reasons : emotional upset over the strange and terrifying journey , homesickness , fear of their new foster parents — sometimes because a toilet was inaccessible . |
| 7 | This continues the series of major loan exhibitions from the British Museum to the University of East Anglia past subjects include Benin bronzes which have been made possible due to the high standard of the exhibition space , security arrangements and environment control in Norwich , which meets the Museum 's stringent loan requirements . |
| 8 | Until the watershed of 1979 , few restraints on a Home Secretary 's freedom of action in the mainstream stemmed from the political ideology of his party or ministerial colleagues . |
| 9 | However the workers ties to the countryside remained strong due to the seasonal nature of factory work , the close of factories to the countryside and the legal and family ties of the workers to the peasant commune . |
| 10 | Right from the start of the period and up to this present time late in the twentieth century , it has provided numerous examples of the manner in which mankind has failed again and again , in his efforts to mitigate the suffering inherent in the ruthless laws of evolution by replacing them with something better , something which it called ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of developing four-legged galloping to the high pitch of perfection that horses ( and presumably litopterns ) did , kangaroos have perfected a different gait : two-legged hopping with a large balancing tail . |
| 12 | Almost forgotten at the time of her death in 1975 , Madame Yevonde is now the deserving subject of a major retrospective organised by the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society . |
| 13 | Seaya 's impenetrable , breathy French accent saves our blushes by rendering inaudible some of the worst sub-Nietzschian toss passing for lyrics you 'll encounter this side of a Slayer LP , but she could sing a Happy Mondays lyric like commands from heaven . |
| 14 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 15 | I wonder how long it takes to burnt alive in a blazing Tornado ? |
| 16 | The animals suffocate after being trapped in the nets , and the fishermen are reluctant to cut them free due to the high cost ( US$20 ) of replacing the nets . |
| 17 | The improvement tends to be more rapid than with an immature three or four year old due to the increased strength . |
| 18 | They are popular due to the continental influence of eating alfresco and these types of structures give a feeling of dining out of doors without the uncertainty of the British weather . |
| 19 | The democratic approach is closely related to the more general idea of a blackboard architecture , as used in speech recognition ( see , for example , Erman and Lesser 1980 on the HEARSAY-II system ) and other tasks . |
| 20 | Visitors will also recognize artefacts dating from the swinging 60s to the present day . |
| 21 | After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway . |
| 22 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 23 | The second involves the juxtaposition of two consonants not usually placed together in an attempt to reproduce a sound peculiar to the original language ( e.g. , the " kh " sound in Bakhtiari or Bakhshaish ) ; the two consonants used in this way may vary , or one of them may be left out altogether . |
| 24 | Paul , 23 , of nearby Crawley , was tipped for stardom after finishing in the top 30 at the Austrian Open . |
| 25 | Paul , 23 , of Crawley , west Sussex , was on the verge of international stardom , recently coming in the top 30 in the Austrian Open . |
| 26 | I must admit to being worried the week before my flight , as one local farmer had already started cutting great swathes through his fields with his combine , and I was afraid some of the other growers might follow suit . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid some of the other women he played around with when we were having one of our squalls did n't understand the situation . |
| 28 | Thus , where the tenant had been innocently misled into believing that he would obtain a long term , and had invested heavily in the property next door , whereas the landlord in fact had plans for immediate redevelopment , the Court of Appeal upheld an order for a break-clause exercisable after the first three years of the term ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) . |
| 29 | It is commonly assumed that British black children speak a variety of English indistinguishable from the local white norm . |
| 30 | Ladbrokes and Hills offer a more generous 9-4 about the French star , who will be trying to make amends for agonising short head defeats in the last two Gold Cups . |