Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France .
2 Interest will be charged at the rate of 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period .
3 We would levy the charge at 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period .
4 Thankfully she made a quick and full recovery , and was outstanding for the Irish Under-21s at last month 's Home Countries Championships .
5 Seen here at Dean Martin 's facility at Burlington , Vermont , is the first of the L38Cs due for the Black Hawks team .
6 May 1995 Elections are due for the new authorities
7 That he 'd do that in the morning as a little part time job for 'em , and all he 'd do is erm , the Pool Manager , which is at Lock Gates , he know what ships come in the day before and he really know the man and then in the morning they 'd say well so and so ship has arrived but perhaps he might know it , then he 'd send , he 'd know what men to send and this , cos I , I used to get the latest information , they did n't worry him , they worried me about lates latest information and of course we knew what ships was due for the next day so we knew what allocation we wanted .
8 He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs .
9 He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience .
10 I was quite apprehensive about the whole NCT ‘ scene ’ .
11 She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school .
12 The programme extends the company 's current vendor-recruitment efforts , and is designed to make it easy and profitable for the smaller vendors to support the HP-UX workstations .
13 X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out .
14 If a planning authority wished to restrict its activities , it was held that it was only right for the extra costs to be reimbursed .
15 We liked this little scene for the corner of a patio : the cane chair is just right for the simple planting around it and extra interest is created by using a large limestone boulder , gravel and creeping plants such as thyme .
16 ‘ But at the time , I did n't think the four years I had spent at Westminster Hotel School , learning to make classic garnishes , was right for the Golden Egg .
17 But I like Danny Bascombe , and I believe he 's right for the changing face of Barbados .
18 On the major question of the legal basis for pension schemes in the future , Mr. Murphy said ‘ The Working Party consider that the principles of trust law appropriately updated , continue to be valid , but we think it would be right for the central principles of trust law to be re-stated and put into the context of pension schemes .
19 The Junior Gaultier collection presents his ideas with more of a sportswear or street feel , more for club-goers and it 's just right for the new designer room we have opened at our branch at 362 Oxford Street in London . ’
20 The time was right for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to do so today , but they did not .
21 Aristotle was right for the wrong reasons .
22 In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons .
23 What was good enough to contain Al Capone , he could then assure the Prime Minister , should be right for the English yob .
24 We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 .
25 I do not think that it is right for the hon. Lady to knock the national health service in that way .
26 It is clear from earlier research that each school has to work through , to an extent , what is right for the particular people involved and that there will be ups and down .
27 Not the equipment manufacturer because he is interested in the commercial aspect of selling his own equipment whether it be right for the particular job or not .
28 If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory .
29 Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ .
30 It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections .
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