Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 2 | When a donor-funded Essential Drugs Programme began to supply the primary level with kits , WHO specifically recommended that : ‘ Mozambique should be supplied exclusively through UNIPAC and should not canvas suppliers independently ’ ( Cliff et al , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | The young police officer fished out a twenty-two-function Swiss Police knife and selected a worthy blade . |
| 4 | A right old balls-up that would be . ’ |
| 5 | If your army includes eleven to fifteen Trolls these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near a possible equally-sized units . |
| 6 | A tepid Euro-soup Films that try to please all of Europe 's nations will inevitably end up pleasing none of them , says William Parente |
| 7 | Worried about the questionable loyalty of the armed forces , the government pressed ahead with plans to form a unified national police force as a counterbalance . |
| 8 | HLA class I and class II alleles were serologically typed at the Tissue Typing Laboratory , NSW Division , Australian Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service using the standard National Institutes of Health test for class I and a modified National Institutes of Health test using immunomagnetic beads for class II . |
| 9 | A Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman described the Washington Post interview as " distorted " and added , as reported on Radio Pakistan on Feb. 9 , that Pakistan had " considerable capability in the nuclear field " but had decided to use that capability only for peaceful purposes and not to produce nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | Known in Bolivia as the ‘ minister of cocaine ’ after he allegedly created a paramilitary squad to confiscate cocaine from drug dealers who refused to pay him bribes , Mr Arce Gomez also has a grisly human rights reputation . |
| 11 | Eventually a frail young women appeared , shaking with fear , and was taken into a nearby house . |
| 12 | The gallery has built up a well-balanced programme of work offering an annual arrangement of exhibitions clearly influenced by a strong equal opportunities policy . |
| 13 | But a plea for formalised plea bargaining by Bar Council chairman , was strongly repudiated by his successor , , a strong civil rights activist , who told the Criminal Law Solicitors Association conference , ‘ I can think of no greater avenue for injustice than plea bargaining ’ , which he described as mixing ‘ quantum with liability ’ . |
| 14 | Other breeds of goats may well be different but my Goldens are very kind to each other and have a strong social strata . |
| 15 | As well as visiting the ports of Bergen , Narvik , Tromso and Honningsvag , the tour offers a strong Arctic Convoys theme with talks , videos and memorabilia on show . |
| 16 | I was particularly interested in the fact that a firm of architects , one of the public companies , is offering this insurance as part of a total professional services package . |
| 17 | The choice will soon be between a total nuclear weapons ban , and a wildfire spread of nuclear technology . |
| 18 | AT&T Co has signed an agreement with the People 's Republic of China allowing it to supply personal telecommunications products with manufacturing partner S Megga International Holdings Ltd 's S Megga Telecommunications Ltd unit : the two have a memorandum of understanding with the China National Posts & Telecommunications Industry Corp to market and distribute AT&T-brand telephones , facsimile machines and other consumer items through hundreds of mainland outlets ; consumer products account for an estimated 20% of a total Chinese telecommunications market of $7,000m a year . |
| 19 | Laing is building studios , and one- and two-bedroom apartments from its Charter range , which recently gained a 9.2 New Homes Energy Rating certificate ( on a scale of one to 10 ) at a development in Essex . |
| 20 | While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine , which rapidly collapsed . |
| 21 | On May 24 , a quadrilateral Foreign Ministers ' meeting during the Lisbon summit [ see p. 38923 ] issued a statement on measures to calm the situation . |
| 22 | In Baldersdale , as in all societies , there was a definite upper strata , a small group of families which occasionally demonstrated their comparative affluence . |
| 23 | The soldiers , sailors and airwomen are among 5,500 women illegally forced to give up their careers to have a family , according to a European Equal Opportunities Commission ruling . |
| 24 | The second piece of news is that John Major is supporting a commission proposal for a European Official Secrets Act . |
| 25 | Each area will have three sales a year , the first being Oriental art on 27 May followed by a European Decorative Arts sale on 2 and 3 June . |
| 26 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 27 | On illegal drugs the summit urged the establishment of a European central drugs intelligence unit before the end of 1990 and greater police co-operation . |
| 28 | This included the establishment of a European central drugs intelligence unit , a centralized data information bureau and a training unit for drug enforcement agents . |
| 29 | If you want a growth-type investment , such as I do n't know , Far Eastern fund , or something like that , or a , or even a European Special Situations , you n you , you might as well not use the P E P because they wh you get about one percent on er a growth P E P . |
| 30 | US government spending on open systems is estimated at around $4,000m , a figure he contends is reasonable to expect from European governments and one that should be enough to support the development of a European open systems industry . |