Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 While story grammars seem ideal for working with simple English written stories they have problems where the surface structure ( particularly verb tenses ) do not correspond to the ideal structure as set out in Mandler and Johnson 's ( 1977 ) approach , or where in fact there is no verbal structure ( as in the silent film , to be discussed ) .
2 In the Bertrand case with constant identical marginal costs we have , in fact , the perfectly competitive market outcome , with price equal to marginal cost and no excess profit , but in the Cournot and Stackelberg cases prices exceed marginal costs and the firms make excess profit .
3 To establish the viability of this approach for probing crude nuclear extracts we first tested the ability of 32 P-labelled CREB to detect itself or ATF1 that had been overexpressed in bacteria ( figure 3 ) .
4 To assess the profile of CREB binding proteins obtained by probing crude nuclear extracts we immunoprecipiated material from UF9 extracts with CREB antibody ( lane 6 ) or preimmune serum ( lane 5 ) and probed this on the same blot .
5 It 's all good fun royal visits I mean the last
6 His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself .
7 It 'd be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value .
8 That part at least is uncontested , but for various complex legal reasons it took Thomas , an executor of the will , nine months to get probate .
9 The only distinguishing clinical features we could identify in the RP group were male preponderance and an increased frequency of extraintestinal manifestations .
10 ‘ Contrary to their story book image as big old friendly things they are very bad tempered .
11 Between his nutcracker lips was one of the thin twisted little cigarettes he made himself .
12 He started as a day person , and was in all these big spectacular musical shows they used to put on .
13 Pessimistic boring old farts i think
14 ‘ Moje milá , ’ he gently breathed , and , pulling a little away from her , he looked down to the naked swollen pink-tipped breasts he had uncovered .
15 Others have the battered old manual models they bought cheaply years ago .
16 They are also the greasy old retro pimps it 's OK to like , a bunch of seedy would-be Lynch subjects who happen to be one of the most important groups in Britain today .
17 Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls .
18 ‘ Any other worthy good deeds you 'd like to mention ? ’
19 Blanche did not respond like the other ambitious young officers he knew .
20 Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels .
21 Christmas puddings , jars of mincemeat , bunches of holly , fruit , nuts , table-mats , serviette-rings and dozens of other useful little articles they had made carefully and patiently were spread over a long trestle table in the hall .
22 As experienced clinical forensic practitioners we provide training for ‘ police surgeons ’ but consider ourselves a product of the Association of Police Surgeons ' efforts to improve academic standards .
23 Our revised version is the result of the following organisational changes : ( a ) We put " career as a London playwright " into a larger section called " biographical details " , because there are other relevant biographical points we will want to make .
24 ‘ What lovely wee pink hams you 've got , son .
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