Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The serial number of a human specimen is the face , that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features . |
| 2 | Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change . |
| 3 | Furthermore , they often failed to realise that the standard language is , from an historical point of view , merely that regional or social dialect which has acquired prestige . |
| 4 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 5 | One of the principal findings of an evaluative study of the introduction of a practice counsellor into two general practices in Cambridge was that professional and patient satisfaction with the new service was high . |
| 6 | And the Bay of Islands Club at Kerikeri is well worth visiting if you are in that historic and scenic area . |
| 7 | Mat was good too , because he did n't want to arrive at her place hot and flustered ; not today , not with her at the end of the walk , not with that subtle but unequivocal promise there , waiting , ready . |
| 8 | With a small individual membership , the Party badly needs the trade unions to provide that broad and representative support across classes and across occupations . |
| 9 | That broad and naked shoulder was only inches from her . |
| 10 | The Bakufu 's position was fatally flawed by its having little economic or political status as a national government : it wielded political power as proxy for the emperor using only the income from its own lands . |
| 11 | At best it would delay the arrival of that strong and vital recovery on which Treasury calculations on government spending and revenue are so delicately balanced . |
| 12 | The main disadvantage is that political or economic instability within the country may cause problems outside the control of the parent company . |
| 13 | She found herself pouring out her unhappiness to that odd but kind lady and when she had finished the headmistress sat back and looked at her sympathetically . |
| 14 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 15 | Schmuck said existing political parties were failing to make the environment a priority and that economic and environmental restructuring can be combined . |
| 16 | A basic problem in our understanding of technological change is that economic and organisational analysis of change have in the past been poorly integrated . |
| 17 | He leant back in his chair and thrust the unlit pipe into his mouth , holding the stem in that strange but characteristic grip between the first and second fingers of his left hand . |
| 18 | One is that strange and pervasive hostility to the aged , apparent from bygone days in myth and legend , survives in contemporary society . |
| 19 | Is it not the case that as long as Saddam Hussein rules that country — as long as that brutal and murderous despot continues in power — there will be absolutely no solution for people in that unhappy state ? |
| 20 | It is later in their careers , when seeking promotion , that direct and indirect discrimination becomes more visible , and women 's domestic position impinges most directly on occupational participation , and the monopolization of power by men is starkly evident . |
| 21 | She had the feeling she must either give in to that showy and heady beatification or run for her life . |
| 22 | The bald election result was bad enough , but then there were the personal touches : that brave but shattered look on Glenys ' face as Neil announced his resignation , the dreadful picture on the back of the Independent of a group of City dickheads celebrating their unexpected winnings , and the downright irritating news that my fellow chatterer on Stop the Week , Milton Shulman , had made a packet at Ladbroke 's predicting the correct result . |
| 23 | Pursuing the image further than the modesty of Wesley would permit , we could in theory have a manner of writing in which there is no style , in which content is presented in its nakedness.A more recent variant of this view is that of French stylisticians such as Bally and Riffaterre , that style is that expressive or emotive element of language which is added to the neutral presentation of the message itself . |
| 24 | Design is perceived as having little cultural or social significance . |
| 25 | For one thing , a much smaller house , because after all , C. Mellings , Printers and Stationers had to support two establishments ; Cedric 's and Jane 's house did not have that elusive but unmistakable atmosphere of ease , of success . |
| 26 | The album , ‘ Girlfriend ’ , is saved from being one of those embarrassingly wimpy singer/songwriter affairs firstly by Sweet 's own humour and taste and secondly by the presence of some of the hippest musos in New York : Television 's famed guitarist Richard Lloyd , kd lang 's imaginative pedal steel player Greg Leisz , Lou Reed 's old skinbasher Fred Maher ( also producing ) and last , but not least , that elusive and exclusive Fender bender Mr. Robert Quine . |
| 27 | He was enormous fun and there was also that elusive and comforting reminder of Uncle Dimitri . |
| 28 | That elusive and incomplete report tantalizes in its suggestion that the conflict between two sets of ideas and institutions of government had crystallized , had produced a confrontation of philosophies symbolized with quite adequate drama in the request that the state should compensate the tribe for its fallen conscripts . |
| 29 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 30 | But there was that unmistakable and disquieting reaction to the knocking on the door , and then the pointless deception which followed ; pointless , because he must have known he could not get away with it . |