Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the British nuclear deterrent to be truly independent , it should be based upon British and not US delivery systems . |
| 2 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 3 | Our cover was terrific and neither Scotland Yard bodyguard had a chance of spotting us . |
| 4 | Liberal Democrat Robert Maclennan formerly Labour and briefly SDP leader in 1987–88 , looks unassailable with more than 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 6 | Hence the need to develop this centralised co-ordination and control in order best to utilise these valuable and potentially life saving resources of ours . ’ |
| 7 | Getaway is simple to use , suitable for all fabrics and works perfectly in hot , cold and even sea water . |
| 8 | While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning . |
| 9 | As we have seen , by this time the traditional and often puritan belief in the virtues of abstemiousness and moderation was finding it hard to resist the reality of achievement , but they were still regretted . |
| 10 | A more promising approach seemed to be the invention of a new and universal language and writing system , and Slaughter gives a fascinating and commendably deadpan account of the attempts of ‘ language projectors ’ to achieve this objective . |
| 11 | It has been argued recently that by 1750 , urban workers especially were working " a very disciplined , formalised , surprisingly regular and long working week " . |
| 12 | Tony Fretwell-Downing , the Sheffield computer businessman who sponsored the event , very gamely claimed his first ever route with an ascent of the loose and long west flank . |
| 13 | From the relative positions of the 1989 fracture and the gravity high ( Figs 1 and 2 ) , it appears that the intrusion is either vertical and about 100m west of the fracture , or inclined downwards west away from the fracture . |
| 14 | However , the overwhelming reality today is that the Book Trade is highly professional , commercial , competitive , flexible and increasingly computer literate . |
| 15 | The Darlington transistor and thyristor should be widely available and not cause concern . |
| 16 | There are many social facilities available and also Farmoor reservoir only a short distance away . |
| 17 | Plate tectonics appears to be the device , unexplained in Wegener 's day , that permits the continents to drift : it is a process whereby the rigid , relatively cool plates that cover the earth 's hot and partially plastic asthenosphere , forty miles down , shift slowly about , colliding and separating from the other plates by turn . |
| 18 | Well , I think we 're talking here about hospitals in particular and not GP practice but we 're also saying that this is something which the enthusiastic and bright and very capable people we have in our health service are very keen on because they believe it will do better for their patients . |
| 19 | These are the tangible results of its activity , and take no account of the quality of the educational and indeed life experience gained by those who have passed through its doors . |
| 20 | Soon he realised that the coveralls which were visible on the far bank were Navy dark blue and not Survey Service drab grey . |
| 21 | Its Open Systems division is a reseller for Digital Equipment Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc and latterly IBM Corp , and added its new parent , ICL , in January , and also has an arrangement with Hewlett-Packard UK Ltd . |
| 22 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 23 | All in all it promises to be an exciting enjoyable and hard working year for Save The Children and all its supporters . |