Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Europeans , this music is unfamiliar and in many cases the technical level of orchestration and harmony is deficient by world standards , but in place of technique , the Indians have something else that should interest us . |
| 2 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 3 | Significant increases in those claiming supplementary benefit were recorded from both the unemployed and from single-parent families , whereas the number of pensioners claiming had decreased ( see Figure 5.1 , page 80 ) . |
| 4 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 5 | Finally , apart from the obvious Joe Satriani Ibanez guitars which , incidentally , are strung quite light and with low actions ( on tour his tech measures the action prior to every gig ! ) , he also uses quite a lot of ‘ Nashville ’ tuned acoustics . |
| 6 | The greater light was , of course , the sun which , in early mythology , was considered masculine while the moon was feminine and in some cultures , she was called The Queen of Heaven . |
| 7 | In general the activities of the masses were though of as mindless but they were at least non-political and in many cases they even encouraged the acceptance of social norms and new routines necessary to urban and industrial life . |
| 8 | in a stable environment ( ie. the container finn ) the most efficient structure was one in which the influence and authority of senior managers were relatively high and of middle managers low ; |
| 9 | In those islands where demand is relatively high the equilibrium price of the good will be relatively high and in those islands where demand is relatively low the price of the good will be relatively low . |
| 10 | Out of Decimus Street , and round the corner into Paradise Street , and immediately he was back in his childhood , eight years old and with itchy feet . |
| 11 | The products , internally tested over the last six months and now going into formal beta test , will be available direct and through value-added resellers in the current quarter . |
| 12 | With the building deteriorating and with other plans for the site , the owner kindly offered it to the W & l , a move backed by the local authority 's conservation officer . |
| 13 | when you are talking about er public division , does standards er British and with other companies from er Western , Western economies ? |
| 14 | Regional libraries also receive full specifications of British and in some cases foreign patents and will make copies of these available to enquirers . |
| 15 | In their original formulation these two schools were both more concerned , if not exclusively so , with macro-economic and in some cases social historical development . |
| 16 | The location of the earliest episcopal churches — in the inhabited suburbs , within the walls , near the edge of the walled town , or near the centre ? — is often doubtful and in many cases has been much debated . |
| 17 | Even before what appears to have been an acute phase of illness in 1756 , Smart showed many characteristic signs : impulsiveness , reckless spending , drunkenness and — leading eventually to his confinement — his disinhibited behaviour of praying in public and on inappropriate occasions whenever the spirit moved him . |
| 18 | The key change that could be identified in all the schools visited was that of a rethink about departmental allocation , As a result of devolution , capitation seemed to be allocated to departments using criteria that were more public and in most cases fairer ; for example , a formula based on pupil and subject weightings , or a system of bidding or , inevitably , the use of last year 's figures plus an allowance for inflation . |
| 19 | The Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland ( Wheatley 1969 ) followed the same broad analysis of the ills of the system as their English counterparts , but their prescriptions were different and in some ways more radical . |
| 20 | We begin work feeling that certain codes of dress and conduct are acceptable and within six months we have agreed with the norms that indicate that certain codes of dress and conduct are certainly not acceptable . |
| 21 | Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions ! |
| 22 | Bureaucracy , long absent from the country , was making a rapid return , both at central and at local levels . |
| 23 | Windowless , roofless and with blackened walls , the manor house was still smoking and nobody dared go inside just yet . |
| 24 | Old age begins officially on retirement but the majority of people in their sixties and many in their seventies remain reasonably fit , independent , active and content and in many cases they will remain so until the end of their lives . |
| 25 | The election of an MdB in a constituency is obviously straightforward and in numerical terms unambiguous . |
| 26 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 27 | So , submits Mr. Browne , inviting analogy first between discovery in civil and in criminal proceedings , and then between the implied undertaking on the one hand and public interest immunity on the other , this court should now conclude that the immunity too has lapsed : in other words that there no longer remains any public interest in withholding these documents from further dissemination . |
| 28 | The slalom kayak is fragile , uncomfortable and with unforgiving edges . |
| 29 | Equal opportunities and gender were given a high profile in Authority policy , but again the situation on the ground was uneven and in some cases inadequate . |
| 30 | Certainly his designs had become more uneven and in some instances , such as that for William Wood 's Manuela ( Rupert Hart-Davis , 1955 ) , can seem pedestrian if compared with his earlier work for John Lehmann . |