Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the strippings and restorations are recorded in dated pencilled notes on stocks or in butt-traps which helps recreate a gun 's personal history . |
| 2 | But while large companies are only a small percentage of total businesses , they dominate the economy , such that ‘ a large proportion of economic activity in present-day capitalist economies is concentrated in a relatively small number of absolutely large firms ’ . |
| 3 | The Department of Education had accepted criticisms of the provision made for young children in ordinary elementary schools and had phased out arrangements for under-threes by 1904 ( in 1875 elementary schools accommodated 19,358 under-threes ) . |
| 4 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 5 | It was a modern cocktail , apricot-coloured and served in tall narrow glasses with ice , a glacé cherry and a slice of lemon . |
| 6 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |
| 7 | Er it 's , it 's not a problem , it just er it shows up in odd little corners of the . |
| 8 | Since they are hard to find , except in odd little shops that specialise in big underpants and sheepskin slippers for old people , they cost a pretty penny . |
| 9 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 10 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 11 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 12 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 13 | Welsh is a also a foundation subject , in non-Welsh speaking schools in Wales . |
| 14 | ( a ) Serial correlation in aggregate real variables |
| 15 | The large living-cum-dining room is mostly in earthy natural shades — they 're easy on the eye and a perfect setting for the colourful rug and furniture which the Coles bought to remind them of their travels |
| 16 | ‘ I like to think that it is going on all over Masailand in fifty thousand kraals at this moment . ’ |
| 17 | And erm my my Mrs Jonathan , my aunt Auntie Bessie , invariably in Porthmadog , went to call on the families of people who 'd been lost , as my mother did in in we lost you see in fifty two men killed in world war one . |
| 18 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |
| 19 | In fifty different variations of British uniform , with cooking pots , cardboard boxes and bundles of clothing slung about us , we shuffled out of the camp to a railway siding with an escort of thirty-six guards and three dogs . |
| 20 | Patrick Faigenbaum has been immortalising the ancient noble families of Rome and Naples in cruel photographic portraits . |
| 21 | The Northern Ireland Office was shaken to its foundations and accepted that it had to curtail drastically the activities of the Provisional IRA and be seen to move against the more violent gangsters in loyalist urban districts . |
| 22 | Larry , my stepfather , was tired of off-Broadway plays in creaky old theatres that nobody ever came to see . |
| 23 | One by one , the men descended , Heinrich in demure body-concealing maroon jersey , Alfred in rakish red and white striped drawers with plain red jersey top , James in black stockinette , and Algernon in garish green stripes . |
| 24 | Many of these management activities would occur automatically in best-practice private companies , spurred on by managers adopting broad views of their briefs , although it is not always clear what motivates the manager to behave in this way — perhaps the operation of the managerial labour market ? |
| 25 | It was noted above that there is often a disparity between benefits and taxes covered ; that is , an unbalanced budget is allocated which creates a distortion in measured net benefits . |
| 26 | In normal colonic specimens lysozyme mRNA expression was found in cells lying beneath the surface epithelium in 17/27 cases ( 63% ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | There are many reports of studies on the phase of DNA synthesis in normal colonic crypts , but none on the DNA distribution in epithelial cells in colonic crypts . |
| 28 | Isolated ventricular extrasystoles are frequently found in normal healthy adults , and occur in 1–4% of standard 12 lead recordings , and 39–67% of 24 hour ambulatory studies . |
| 29 | This dose of oestrogen has previously been shown to be the minimum required to prevent bone loss in normal menopausal women . |
| 30 | But the incidence of Down 's is such that a process of integration would only involve one child with Down 's entering one in every 20 classes in normal primary schools . |