Example sentences of "a [adj] drugs " in BNC.

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1 Many other substances were screened for antiviral activity and a few drugs with limited clinical application were found .
2 Leaving them around s you know quite a few drugs .
3 So , erm , she said oh you are erm on a few drugs , but there anti-inflammatory drugs that you 're on
4 One theory has the company entering into a series of joint ventures ; an unlikely suggestion has ICI 's pharmaceuticals business merging with Wellcome , a British drugs firm .
5 Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years .
6 Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal .
7 A SPIRALLING drugs problem has forced a health authority to call an urgent meeting to tackle the problem .
8 It 's one of a dozen drugs of its kind currently being researched .
9 In the next few months , with British taxpayers ' money , we shall be setting up a national drugs intelligence unit in Czechoslovakia to try to intercept drugs coming overland .
10 The weightlifter was banned from this summer 's Barcelona Olympics for failing a random drugs test , carried out by the Sports Council .
11 a deep drugs and ni not have erm some medical staff monitoring you .
12 A TOWN with one of the worst unemployment figures in East Anglia has been hit by the loss of 21 more jobs , while 30 posts are being axed by a major drugs firm .
13 They did n't know their church had bin taken over an' wuz bein' used by the Triads , as a front fer a major drugs operation .
14 It was not an astonishing one , in the context of a small-time drugs network .
15 Very strict rules apply to those drugs which in the Act are called ‘ controlled drugs ’ ; each dose has to be accounted for in a Controlled Drugs Register , whether the drug is given in hospital or in the home .
16 Landlord Adrian Magee told Today : ‘ There 's a big drugs problem in the area and most publicans are desperately concerned about it .
17 There was an item on a big drugs haul in Seattle and then the President 's face came up on the screen .
18 That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country .
19 Detectives say a hundred and ninety officers , many of them armed , were involved in Operation Lucy which has smashed a nationwide drugs and guns racket .
20 we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ;
21 With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes .
22 He added : ‘ These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer . ’
23 He added : ‘ These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer .
24 He was to meet ‘ Joseph ’ , a big-time drugs trafficker , aboard his yacht to conclude a deal that would solve all his problems for ever .
25 Checking a new drugs route — in connection with an IRA group .
26 Zeneca , a new drugs firm spun off by Britain 's ICI , is about to make a £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) rights issue .
27 He had pointed out that Bethlehem House was conveniently sited to act as a reception point for a trans-border drugs run from Canada .
28 The two killings are part of a vicious power struggle within the Irish People 's Liberation Organisation over a huge drugs racket in West Belfast .
29 Thus , it would not be advisable , for example , to compare a sample of heroin users generated from GPs ' records with one produced from the files of a local Drugs Council , because some GPs require patients to attend counselling sessions to complement medical treatment , so that patients who have seen their GP about their heroin use may be more likely to occur in a sample generated by a local Drugs Council than users who have not sought treatment from their GP .
30 Thus , it would not be advisable , for example , to compare a sample of heroin users generated from GPs ' records with one produced from the files of a local Drugs Council , because some GPs require patients to attend counselling sessions to complement medical treatment , so that patients who have seen their GP about their heroin use may be more likely to occur in a sample generated by a local Drugs Council than users who have not sought treatment from their GP .
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