Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the Palestine Survey Commission during the British Mandate Period , engineer James Hays , presented a multi-purpose concept in 1943 for water management in Palestine . |
| 2 | Leicestershire finished on 289 for 9 … quite a total for Buckinghamshire to chase in sixty overs , , their start was slow but sure … |
| 3 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 4 | I do n't give damn about building contractors not being paid . |
| 5 | Feynman became well known in 1948 for work on the quantum theory of light . |
| 6 | Purchased in 1948 for £10 , Southampton 45 was the first of many trams to be bought by enthusiasts for preservation . |
| 7 | Strangely we find that its diamond shape was less like the present day Delta with its rigid leading edge spars than the design by George D. Wanner of Dayton as filed 11 months prior in January 1948 , as against November 1948 for Rogallo . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |
| 11 | Colleagues I propose to take the vote one five eight as Mick 's indication is being opposed by the C E C. All those in favour of one five eight against that 's lost . |
| 12 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 13 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 14 | But he can be sloppy about detail . |
| 15 | She 's moody for ages . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This makes sense to the degree that one of the legal authorities whom Coke most often cites is Bracton ( Henry de Bracton , De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ) , who dies in 1268 , having flourished under Henry III of England and during the minority of Henry 's son , the future Edward I. Moreover Edward and Eleanor spent the winter of 1270–71 in Sicily , en route to the Holy Land , and returned there in 1272 for Edward to learn that , his father having died , he was king of England . |
| 18 | They were all the kind of diplomatic event which in normal times Mr Heath would much enjoy and at which he would perform very well . |
| 19 | However , another officer was not so polite about Scotland , particularly its whisky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Quintets by Mozart ( K452 ) and Rawsthorne ; Schumann 's Adagio and Allegro Opus 70 for horn and piano ; Ibert 's Cinq Pièces en trio for oboe , clarinet and bassoon . |
| 22 | Ballesteros returned 70 for day three to be two strokes behind the two leaders , with the West German Bernhard Langer . |
| 23 | The taxation review of Brush v Bower Cotton & Bower ( 1992 ) before Mr Justice Brooke sitting with Chief Master Hurst and Mr Tony Girling as assessors ( see para 4.8 , p 70 for reference ) is useful reading on all principles of recovery of costs . |
| 24 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
| 25 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 26 | Paul Lawrie also had 70 for level-par 288 to be 25th with Adam Hunter 's 72 for 289 giving him a share of 31st place with Stephen McAllister ( 74 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | The Group says , production , home sales and exports have all been outstanding for Austin Rover and Landrover vehicles . |
| 30 | I said I 've got an invoice outstanding for October , and I said I ca n't afford to do that ! |