Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 2 | And now I am going to have to tell you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO , but this time it 's a bit different because the DOs and DON'Ts that I am going to give you may easily SAVE YOUR LIFE . |
| 3 | It shared the fate with many others of its kind , and was one of the suppressed chantries in the reign of Edward VI and the lands and revenues with which it was endowed coming to the crown were , in the first year of Queen Mary , let to the family of Levesons of Whornes Place . |
| 4 | Pairs of stimuli are aligned on two tracks of a magnetic tape such that the onset and offset of one stimulus coincide exactly with the onset and offset of the second stimulus . |
| 5 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 6 | They gained little out of the nets in Jamaica and have not been able to face any bowling since Tuesday other than the spinners and gentle medium-pacers . |
| 7 | Even after Britain and France declared war on Russia in March 1854 ( more than five months after the Turks had done so ) , the inclination to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis remained strong on the part of all interested parties other than the Turks and the French . |
| 8 | Members of Congress and senior administrators are moved by considerations other than the carrots and sticks available to a chief executive . |
| 9 | The authorities took no immediate action to implement the arrest warrants , and Attorney General Carlos Gustavo Arrieta stated on May 22 that the Constitution and the law could not be used as " instruments to promote retaliations which neither society nor its institutions needed " . |
| 10 | Over the same period , small countries such as the Netherlands and Portugal and , indeed , larger countries such as West Germany and Japan , had a reduction in unemployment , so it is not merely a worldwide factor . |
| 11 | The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 . |
| 12 | The eastern half was a warehouse , a storey higher than the mill and built later , around 1890 . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) A licensing board shall not make any arrangements under subsection ( 1 ) above for the discharge of any of the following functions : ( a ) making a decision on the application for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; ( b ) making a decision on an application for the renewal of a licence where a competent objection has been lodged ; making a decision to refuse to grant the renewal of a licence ; making a decision on the permanent transfer of a licence ; ( c ) making a decision on an application for a regular extension of permitted hours ; ( d ) making a decision on the restriction of the terminal permitted hour ; making a decision on an application for restoration of restricted hours ; ( e ) making a decision on an application for Sunday opening under Part 1 of Schedule 4 to this Act other than an application and 13 of that Schedule where no objection is made in relation to the application ; ( f ) making a decision as regards a Sunday restriction order or the revocation of such an order under Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act ; making a decision on the suspension of a licence ; making a decision on a closure order . |
| 14 | Minimum reserve ratios are widely used around the world to restrict credit , including in the USA , Japan , Canada and all the EC countries other than the UK and Luxembourg ( see Box 17.3 ) . |
| 15 | He also said that Iran was soon to acquire fighter-bomber aircraft from countries other than the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 17 | An allowance is given for each dependent child other than the applicant and the resultant net income is then compared with a scale which shows the parental contribution to school fees , the balance being met by the Scottish Education Department . |
| 18 | The various laws relating to incitement to racial hatred hitherto scattered in such diverse places as the Public Order Act 1936 ( as amended ) the Theatres Act 1968 and the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 were drawn together in a single Act . |
| 19 | The Planning ( Listed Building and Conservation Areas ) Act 1990 , the Planning ( Consequential Provisions ) Act 1990 , the Planning ( Hazardous Substances ) Act 1990 and the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 . |
| 20 | Fourteen folk dead and the houses and boats burned . |
| 21 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 22 | The products are version 7.0 of PowerHouse , the end-user SQL query tool Impromptu , the Powerplay executive decision tool , the non-graphic end-user and reporting tool InQuisitive and the application and maintenance tool Architect . |
| 23 | Among the LWB five-door , turbo-diesels the same applies — it 's at least £2000 cheaper than the Discovery and Shogun versions . |
| 24 | C.6.2 if so required by the Vendor in writing within 60 days following it being notified , retain solicitors chosen by the Vendor to proceed on behalf of the Purchaser in accordance with the instructions of the Vendor and give to such solicitors all and every assistance and information as they may require . |
| 25 | I approved of Paddy Ashdown 's commitment to spending more on education — but then no amount of money will make education good if the unions and the race relations industry are running the show . |
| 26 | President Mary Robinson of the Irish Republic , who visited Somalia on Oct. 3 and 4 , said at an emotional press conference in Nairobi on Oct. 5 that the UN and the European Communities were " offending justice " by acting slowly over the Somali crisis . |
| 27 | An interesting example is a scheme initiated in 1989 by Assured Tenancies Ltd and the Bradford and Northern and the North British Housing Associations . |
| 28 | The size of the supplier 's organisation , the technical back-up available and the competence and experience of field personnel are important . |
| 29 | For him a class was about life chances and included dimensions other than the ownership and non-ownership of the means of production . |
| 30 | The most common distinction is that between first person ( identifying the speaker or a group which includes the speaker : English I/we ) , second person ( identifying the person or persons addressed : English you ) , and third person ( identifying persons and things other than the speaker and addressee : English he/she/it/they ) . |