Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 2 | The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role . |
| 3 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 4 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 5 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 6 | Following the deployment , the Lebanese government made it clear that its next step would be to place diplomatic pressure on the United States to persuade Israel to allow Lebanese army deployment in Jezzin , as a first step towards compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 425 , which called for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon . |
| 7 | Her supporters in the audience made it clear that her recent attacks on Government policy have , if anything , made her more popular with party activists . |
| 8 | Well , stick around , Prince , ’ she said , her tone making it clear that her deliberate misuse of the title was meant to insult him . |
| 9 | She motioned Jenna to a seat and it was clear that her initial diffidence was now controlled . |
| 10 | Conversely , in many contexts in western ‘ scientific ’ society , it is clear that what some writers have labelled ‘ non-scientific ’ thought is as evident as in non-western societies . |
| 11 | The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time . |
| 12 | The US president , Bill Clinton , hailed the Russian leader as the leader of ‘ the historic movement towards democracy and free markets in Russia ’ and made it clear that their planned summit meeting in Vancouver on 3 and 4 April would go ahead . |
| 13 | To would-be revolutionaries it was becoming abundantly clear that their central problem was lack of contact with the masses . |
| 14 | While the Danzig Poles were thought to be docile and largely invisible , it is clear that their slumbering sense of identity had been roused by anti-Polish policies . |
| 15 | By the late 1880s it was clear that their only hope lay in mass revolt . |
| 16 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 17 | On my return to Burma in November 1945 I was Archdeacon of Rangoon , but it soon became clear that my main attention would have to be devoted to working for understanding and peace . |
| 18 | It is absolutely clear that my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West ( Mr. Ashby ) has done the House a service by raising this matter . |
| 19 | It seemed clear that his new duties would keep him in London for some time — certainly his stay in Italy was at an end . |
| 20 | There seems to be a lot of anger locked up in a sense of competition that he apparently directs first and foremost against himself ; and it is clear that his endless tampering with his swing must have at least as much to do with mind-control as with bodily mechanics — either that , or Faldo has a very perverse and forgetful body indeed . |
| 21 | In retrospect , of course , it is clear that his creative powers were beginning to wane and that his real work had been done . |
| 22 | It must be clear that our simple definition of ‘ text ’ as ‘ the verbal record of a communicative act ’ requires at least two hedges : |
| 23 | So it is clear that our first approach ( demonstrated in Fig. 2.20 ) had no general validity . |
| 24 | Thus it is clear that our typical inhabitant is a peasant living in European Russia . |
| 25 | Volkswagen 's Vario I and Vario II were much more interesting than their wacky bodywork would suggest . |
| 26 | Such stronger forms are available , as we shall see , and they are always more interesting than their weaker counterparts . |
| 27 | Far more interesting than your average conversation that involves people or a good old fashioned joke I do n't think . |
| 28 | Unless the Paris Club , which manages official debt to Western governments , proves much more generous than its past record suggests , a considerable slice of the new money will go merely to service the old loans rather than provide fresh finance for imports and investment goods to support genuine reform . |
| 29 | Thus , the richer States of the north and west should be more generous than their poorer contemporaries of the South , a conclusion that has been sustained empirically , e.g. Magull ( 1978 ) , Fenton and Chamberlayne ( 1969 ) . |
| 30 | On the Continent , station architects tended to be more restrained than their English-speaking colleagues , more prone to arches than towers , but they were not unaffected by the new aesthetic and clung to it longer . |