Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 2 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 3 | Indeed , tighter financial targets increasingly conflicted with the consensual political decision to maintain a certain size of railway system . |
| 4 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 5 | Major pharmaceutical companies often did not have the multi-disciplinary expertise to develop the necessary products and processes and Chiros was collaborating with several of them , Richards said . |
| 6 | She squinted at Madeleine 's thin ankles , arched foot swinging a high-heeled slipper . |
| 7 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |
| 8 | Finally , the amount by which the total award exceeds the prescribed element must also be specified . |
| 9 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 10 | If economic weakness exposed the British to American leverage , it also gave them bargaining power , given the anxiety of the Americans to achieve certain objectives . |
| 11 | An intact skin protects the internal structures from water loss and assists in temperature regulation . |
| 12 | The public house known as the Brewery Tap was quite a large and tall building having a big yard with stables at the left hand side . |
| 13 | Endoscopic sphincterotomy and basket extraction of the stones has been the most widely used technique having an overall success rate of 85% in clearing the ducts . |
| 14 | The oral shield has a rounded proximal edge with an almost straight distal edge or may be rounded triangular in shape . |
| 15 | The oral shield has a rounded proximal edge with a slight distal lobe . |
| 16 | The oral shield has an obtuse proximal angle , indented lateral sides and a convex distal edge ; the distal portion of the shield appears enlarged , extending approximately half-way to the disk edge . |
| 17 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 18 | However , junior officers upholding the sanctity of Japan 's rural heritage led the physical attack on politicians and zaibatsu leaders in a series of assassinations . |
| 19 | These allowances , plus a few others , are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income . |
| 20 | That way we shall have a good idea of all the different kinds of rose , where to look to find the right variety to suit a particular purpose , and more importantly , where not to look , and what to leave alone . |
| 21 | Finally , it may be mentioned that Hassan , Feinstein and Manko ( 1990 ) have recently obtained another particular solution describing the non-colinear case using the generating technique of Gutsunaev and Manko ( 1988 ) as described here in ( 12.56 ) and ( 15.57 ) . |
| 22 | Thus point stimuli located at the centre of the receptive field produce a large output while stimuli falling away from the centre produce a smaller output . |
| 23 | Conduction velocity is average , spatial summation within the receptive field is linear ( they have a null position usually ) , the receptive field has a centre-surround organization , and receptive fields are small . |
| 24 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 25 | As did the Harter Act , COGSA also required that carriers exercise due diligence to provide a seaworthy ship . |
| 26 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 27 | The machine-based fundament of modern civilisation has emancipated even those most exposed to severance from the requirements of life ; broader and less mutilated existence become a viable possibility . |
| 28 | The Reserve Winner receives a purple and white ribbon and moves up to the Winners if the Winners Dog is for any reason disqualified . |
| 29 | We organise excursions as part of our courses and participants have ample opportunity to meet the hospitable local people and practise Spanish . |
| 30 | AS PART of a week-long visit to Queen 's University , a party of four academics from the South China Agricultural University visited the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland , Hillsborough . |