Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a helmet bearing a marking applied by the manufacturer indicating compliance with the specification contained in one of the British Standards mentioned in Schedule 2 ( whether or not as modified by any amendment ) ; or |
| 2 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 3 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 4 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 5 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
| 6 | £1.1m bail for eleven in Blue Arrow case . |
| 7 | But nevertheless , how far can you go along towards giving certainty to for example the building industry on the amount of new housing which would come from green field sites for Sorry from the non- conversion element . |
| 8 | Before it whisked out of sight I got the impression of a bloated grey body standing about hip-high to me on four thin legs . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , that unique number is generated from the FONT ID times 128 plus the size which limits the total to that appallingly restricted 255 . |
| 10 | The Scottish Natural Heritage figure is up over the grant in aid for 1991-92 for the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Scottish Countryside Commission by 21 per cent . |
| 11 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 12 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 13 | The hospital was the first stop for wounded from the Gulf and they are well equipped to deal with the influx if it comes . |
| 14 | Fifteen miles , thirty miles round trip , cross-country on a bike , time for a chat , say about three-and-a-half to four hours . |
| 15 | Unofficial EC estimates suggest that provision has had to be made for about £2 billion in the £28 billion borrowing requirement for 1992–93 as a result of the policy shift . |
| 16 | One economist said : ‘ The Treasury forecast at the time of the Budget growth this year of 1 p.c. and a PSBR for 1992–93 of £26 billion excluding tax cuts . |
| 17 | Regrettably this has resulted in the TEC being unable to give a permanent contract for 1992–93 to a very small number of training providers , including Bishop College of Beauty . |
| 18 | The Council agreed an increase in the practising certificate fee for 1992–93 from £420 to £480 ( 14.3% ) . |
| 19 | THE Redgrave Theatre , Farnham , is being given a grant of £17,000 for 1992–93 by Hampshire County Council . |
| 20 | The Council elected Brian Pearse FCIB ( Group Chief Executive , Midland Group ) as Deputy Chairman for 1992–93 in succession to Sir Jeremy Morse . |
| 21 | By 1984 the Ward team was running eight agents and had targeted another five people for possible for recruitment . |
| 22 | Right : Laminated pine type GGL Velux window turns through 180 for easy cleaning |
| 23 | The second reason for the Labour movement 's hostility was that the trade unions had still to be convinced that their strength had increased sufficiently to risk reconsidering the position as declared at their annual conference in 1930 . |
| 24 | The bank still receives only 1% of its total telephone billing , or for 500 of its 6,000 lines , via the system , Gilmont says . |
| 25 | And I rang that on and off right to ten to four and they were n't in . |
| 26 | Early voting projections , which left the CDU with 41 per cent of the vote in Baden Wurttemberg and a drop of between eight to nine per cent over the 1988 election , also stripped Chancellor Kohl 's CDU of its last overall majority in a west German state . |
| 27 | It comprises between eight to 16 Transputers , with a choice of between 8Mb and 32Mb memory on each node . |
| 28 | It comprises between eight to 16 Transputers , with a between 8Mb and 32Mb memory on each node . |
| 29 | It comprises between eight to sixteen transputers , with a choice of between eight to 32Mb memory on each node . |
| 30 | It comprises between eight to sixteen transputers , with a choice of between eight to 32Mb memory on each node . |