Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the 1983 election had been fought under a system of proportional representation instead of a Conservative landslide in the Commons , the Conservatives would have had roughly 285 seats ( and not 397 ) , Labour 180 and the Alliance 160 , resulting in a hung , three-party , parliament and a scramble to form a coalition . |
| 2 | Under pressure from the High Court some of the councillors subsequently voted to resume normal working but the action was undoubtedly a severe embarrassment to the central government . |
| 3 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 5 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 6 | Key features of geriatrics as a medical specialism are the concepts of assessment and rehabilitation , a concern with multi-disciplinary working and the recognition of the importance of social factors in disease onset and management . |
| 7 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 8 | And there was her key , its gun-metal grey shaft rusted brown but the handle still gleaming . |
| 9 | THE GREAT BRITISH EIGHT AND THE REST |
| 10 | All food is bought fresh daily and the management respectfully request a minimum of 24 hours notice on evening meals if required . |
| 11 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 12 | Accordingly , where the landlord proves an intention to redevelop not immediately capable of implementation , the court will order the inclusion of a break-clause exercisable when the landlord is ready . |
| 13 | This is especially important when the job is quite high powered and the interview may be rather searching . |
| 14 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 15 | Also , pragmatists draw the very different moral that the test of a theory is whether it organizes our beliefs into an elegant and suggestive web of belief . |
| 16 | It is perfectly possible to catch rabbits while ferreting with snow lying on the ground , but I do think that snow makes long-netting impossible as the net becomes clogged , wet and inoperable . |
| 17 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |
| 18 | Hilton interprets ‘ new mind ’ or ‘ new feeling ’ as the creation of contemplation , which now demanded far more than the old Benedictine ideal where the monk did not experience God in the achievement of higher states of consciousness but in the mundane details of daily life . |
| 19 | In this sense the growing dissolution of the category is also part of the collapse of older certainties and polarities of the British left and the emergence of concerns around socialist pluralism ( Rust in , 1985 ; Keane , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | As Roth ( 1974 ) points out , the notion that only professions have subcultures is negated by the ‘ distinct and pervasive patterns of occupational life ’ found amongst dockers , seamen , miners , etc. ; prostitutes also claim that their service is a social good and a community service ; a lack of demarcation of work and leisure is equally true of policemen as of dockers ; and so on . |
| 21 | But the community should care for the school because it is a social good and the property of the community . |
| 22 | As the light increased and the sun rose , a cry ran over the ship . |
| 23 | In addition to FPP members , it included two members of the GVP , one Fijian independent and the MP for Rotuma . |
| 24 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 25 | Once added , the amount can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy remains in full force until the end of the term . |
| 26 | Once added the amount can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy remains in full force until the end of term . |
| 27 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 28 | Even in the dreary beginnings of a rainy dawn the newly sprouting vines dotted the hillside with a green that was almost luminous , but the olive trees were the same ghostly grey as the fog . |
| 29 | Intending participants were asked to provide either an extended abstract or a position paper for the workshop , and a number of these were selected for presentation . |
| 30 | But there are fears among the management of the Government-owned Scottish Nuclear that the business could become moribund if the energy rethink forced by the coal controversy results in a swing against nuclear power ahead of the more comprehensive review of the industry due next year . |