Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Defence Minister , Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , had visited Germany on Nov. 11-13 for discussions on bilateral issues , including in particular the withdrawal of Soviet troops from German soil , and on the rapidly changing security situation in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Taro Nakayama , the Japanese Foreign Minister , visited Vietnam on June 11-13 for talks with his Vietnamese counterpart , Nguyen Co Thach , and other high-level Vietnamese leaders [ see p. 37776 for Thach 's visit to Japan in October 1990 ] . |
| 3 | She 's moody for ages . |
| 4 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 5 | While gross primary enrolment ratios in 1986 were 102 for males and 92 for females , for secondary school the ratios were respectively 23 and 13 . |
| 6 | With the traditional rivalry which exists between Berlin and Vienna , such a tournament would be especially enthralling for spectators of the international music chess board . |
| 7 | As an entree to the main Flight hall , visitors will come through FlightLab , the excellent inter-active area devoted to the mechanics and science of flight — designed for kids , but equally enthralling for kids of bygone times ! |
| 8 | SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS |
| 9 | ‘ I 've taught myself to speak French , German and Spanish for shows I have done on the continent . |
| 10 | These islands have been Spanish for centuries . |
| 11 | Available in the Bar is a selection of Tapas ( Spanish for snacks and savories ) as well as an interesting bar lunch menu . |
| 12 | The association between length of gestation and respiratory illness was greatest for symptoms of wheeze most days . |
| 13 | This last aspect has yet to be fully developed but training agencies have been short-listed for courses scheduled for later this year . |
| 14 | ‘ And tomorrow night you are due for nights off ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But his boat is n't in yet ; he 's not due for days . ’ |
| 16 | Right , and you go inside , it 's got two floors each about floors about as tall as our house ! |
| 17 | Zou Jiahua , a Vice-Premier and Minister in charge of the State Planning Commission , visited Japan on Oct. 14-17 for talks with Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu on enhancing scientific and technological co-operation [ see pp. 38394-95 for Kaifu 's August visit to Beijing ] . |
| 18 | ‘ This is cost-effective for authorities in the long-term and stops children in care drifting into lock-up establishments ’ . |
| 19 | Analyst Patrick Kirkby of Nikko Europe anticipates ‘ mild recovery ’ in UK and US beer consumption in 1993 and 1994 but is gloomier about prospects for European beer sales . |
| 20 | But they had gone up to forty eight through acquisitions . |
| 21 | In all , 120 sets of a light trestle , eight Through types and eight Deck types , with 75ft bridge spans , 12 sets of unit construction bridges , six sets of ‘ V ’ type trestles , and literally thousands of parts , chiefly for the ‘ V ’ type trestles , were produced at Wolverton and Derby Carriage and Wagon Works . |
| 22 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 23 | Economic theory suggests that it will not always be profitable for incumbents to deter entry by increasing advertising expenditure as is the case , for example , when the market is growing rapidly . |
| 24 | If they are priced in dollars , D-Marks or some other foreign currency , they will now earn more pounds and will therefore be more profitable for exporters . |
| 25 | The trend was driven by the need to cut costs through regional consolidation and by the prospect of changes in the banking regulations which would make it easier and more profitable for banks to operate across state lines . |
| 26 | Higher demand for credit will drive up interest rates , making it more profitable for banks to supply more credit . |
| 27 | That is , they would consider an action to be right for reasons other than consequential . |
| 28 | What suits you may not be right for others . |
| 29 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 30 | IN an energy-conscious world , is it right for towns to switch on their Christmas lights so many weeks before the big day ? |