Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a young postgraduate research worker my doctoral thesis began from a discussion in a staff common room on the concept of ‘ community ’ . |
| 2 | C. Cyclamen coum Hardy cyclamen whose rounded leaves — which may be plain green , marbled grey , or silver — appear in autumn and last until late spring . |
| 3 | Her straw skirt oot fur its annual air . |
| 4 | André Gide self-published his first novel with disastrous results ( he took most of the copies , unsold , to the shredders ) — and Anaïs Nin typeset , printed and sold Winter of Artifice herself . |
| 5 | But the news that Dalglish is prepared for another big-name auction will dismay his former Liverpool team-mate Graeme Souness , as he makes his own bid for Ferdinand . |
| 6 | It requires no dramatic change in policy to impose a small surcharge on the corporate sector through its filing of the annual return which will provide the funds to support the accounting standards system which this country needs and deserves . |
| 7 | Part of the crime prevention initiative which many police forces are following is to assist the public to take more precautions to help themselves . |
| 8 | The device contains a carbon dioxide cylinder which released gas into a coiled chamber . |
| 9 | As stated in the AEA Times bulletin our clear preference is for our commercial business to be retained essentially in a single company that is transferred to the private sector either by a public flotation or private placement . |
| 10 | Information International Inc of Culver City , California is to assist IBM Corp market its two-dimensional Power Visualization System to its customers . |
| 11 | We humans used the bridge , but of course , Sally had to negotiate this dry Derbyshire creek bed her own way . |
| 12 | Network South East say their well-rehearsed procedures worked well today |
| 13 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 14 | Park View Community Association stage their annual 10km road race at Chester-le-Street this morning ( 10.10 ) . |
| 15 | Mr Deputy Speaker my honourable friend is right that the allocation of budgets is a matter for the local authority and that is a matter for public debate er in the council chamber . |
| 16 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 17 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 18 | THE cost-cutting is to continue at East Midlands Electricity which last month axed 300 jobs . |
| 19 | Police are investigating a £3m deficit at Craven Grain , the Leominster grain co-op which last week accepted the resignation of general manager Brian Muxlow . |
| 20 | LEICESTER manager Brian Little , tipped to take over at Roker Park should struggling Sunderland sack Malcolm Crosby , saw his teenage striker Julian Joachim hand his beleaguered rival another huge setback , writes David Alexander . |
| 21 | I conceive of the brain as like a colour television screen whose many particles light up to form pictures . |
| 22 | Mr Chance , of Nunthorpe , Cleveland , is a charity worker extraordinaire whose good deeds are mostly connected with mental handicap . |
| 23 | THE Russian appetite for Western cigarettes helped tobacco giant Rothmans keep its six-month profits steady at £266m . |
| 24 | Both Albert Cavalcanti , the onetime head of the GPO Film Unit whose Brazilian origins had made him unacceptable as a civil servant , and Watt joined the tight group of filmmakers Balcon had gathered round him at Ealing . |
| 25 | County Pot is located among a ruck of boulders 80 yards upstream from the top of the Cow Dub waterfall its constricted entrance being identified by a manhole cover among many other holes hereabouts on the north bank . |
| 26 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 27 | The growing corpus of US case law which these prohibitions have spawned , make it possible to devise a framework outlining the country 's current proscription of the abuse . |
| 28 | Among those pardoned was former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger whose forthcoming trial , which was due to have begun on Jan. 5 , had produced documentation which had suggested that Bush had been much more deeply involved in the affair than he had ever previously been acknowledged [ see also p. 39087 ] . |
| 29 | Another important Culham experiment was the 8-metre theta pinch Ion which New Scientist 's present editor worked ) . |
| 30 | It will be a special night for former conductor William Livingstone when Seven Towers Male Voice Choir stage their annual concert in Ballymena Town Hall on March 31 . |