Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lila Wallace-Reader 's Digest Fund , Inc. made a $2 million grant for the medieval and Renaissance galleries , and the National Endowment for the Humanities followed up a $525,000 ‘ Museum Program ’ grant with a challenge grant of $750,000 that we have to match 3 to 1 . |
| 2 | It could be quite a useful preparation for a nervous or beginner skier as it relates the feeling of skiing to everyday activities , eg riding a bicycle and driving a car . |
| 3 | Though orthodox in his religious beliefs , Singer deplored the division between the orthodox and reform camps , preached in the reform synagogue in Manchester , and was a supporter of the Jewish Religious Union , forerunner of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues ; it was only under intense pressure from within the United Synagogue that he broke off this association . |
| 4 | These differences , which have largely supplanted the historical division between the socialist and anarcho-syndicalist traditions , were fully reflected at the level of the CCOO and UGT railway unions in RENFE . |
| 5 | Magritte is rehabilitated as a technician capable of surprisingly expressive passages of paint , although Sylvester 's case for the Impressionist and vache pictures is unlikely to win general agreement . |
| 6 | To the extent that there is an elision in the terms of debate , and the concept of postmodern arrangements is aligned only with a ‘ free ’ labour market variant of organizational forms , which actually means freedom for a few and restriction to much more repressive conditions for the many , then the terms of debate and choice are unnecessarily restricted . |
| 7 | He 's made dramatic progress through the British and World rankings over the past year . |
| 8 | However , although there was a close association of life styles and values between the local and newcomer middle classes , there was a significant difference between the working-class farm workers and the other working-class groups . |
| 9 | In the face of continuing failure to reach any agreement on the future of Czechoslovakia , the federal government unanimously adopted a resolution pledging itself to submit draft proposals for the legislative and executive authority to the republican and federal parliaments . |
| 10 | There were craft workshops , shops and counting houses for the commercial and artisan community . |
| 11 | Zuwaya preferred not to employ one another but to enter into partnerships of a kind which created income for the wealthier and capital for the poorer man . |
| 12 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 13 | There are some useful correspondences here , and the descriptions are helpful in emphasizing the association between the feminine and night , and the subliminal emotional powers . |
| 14 | The group , who have an active Saturday club and a Monday Club for the blind and partly-sighted , has their mini-coach stolen when it was on loan to another charitable organisation , and they were left with a deficit of £5,500 when the insurance was settled . |
| 15 | However , comparing Figure 2 ( oleic acid diet group ) with Figures 3 and 4 ( linoleic and eicosapentaenoic acid groups , respectively ) it is evident that the gap between the saline and mile acid pretreatment curves is wider for the two latter fatty acid groups . |
| 16 | The front runner in any bid for the remote-sensing and weather satellites is Comsat , the Washington company that already runs a series of communications craft . |
| 17 | This lifted the atmospheric pressure — fifteen pounds per square inch , as you may know — from the walls of the uterus and thus allowed the maximum free passage of blood through the maternal and infant blood vessels . |
| 18 | The acquisition of a car for the private and business use of a director was not considered by both members of the Court of Appeal ( Neill and Dillon LJJ ) to be an integral part of the company 's business . |
| 19 | However , the most recent of these studies has also shown that habitual drinkers who are heterozygotes for the normal and mutant ALDH2 genes develop alcoholic liver disease at lower levels of alcohol intake than alcoholics who are homozygotes for the normal gene . |
| 20 | Work placement is an important feature of our programmes , with trainees spending three days a week in a variety of settings , including homes for the elderly and day care centres . |
| 21 | Instead she was cautioned ; the official term for a telling-off and warning by police . |
| 22 | The 10th , 11th and 12th rounds of the United States-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ( START ) , otherwise referred to by the negotiating parties as the Nuclear and Space Talks ( NST ) , were held between July 1988 and December 1989 in Geneva , Switzerland . |
| 23 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 24 | The bulk of the domestic and workshop accommodation , however , falls into the category of simple rectilinear forms constructed in a variety of ways from timber and stone depending on the local availability of materials ( cf. fig. 2 D–I ) . |
| 25 | The right-wing New Democracy ( ND ) was the first to act , followed by the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) and the communist-dominated Coalition of the Left and Progress . |
| 26 | The communist-dominated Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos ) lost 0.8 per cent and two seats . |
| 27 | The Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) candidate , Yannis Alevras , won 125 votes and Konstantinos Despotopoulos , the candidate of the communist-dominated Coalition of the Left and Progress , and until recently the Education Minister , 21 . |
| 28 | In a general election in June 1989 the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Panellinion Socialistikou Kinema — Pasok ) , led by Andreas Papandreou , lost its overall majority of seats , and a temporary government was formed comprising members of the right-wing New Democracy ( Nea Demokratia — ND ) and the communist-dominated Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos ) and led by Tzannis Tzannetakis [ see pp. 36738-39 ] . |
| 29 | The outcome fuelled speculation about possible realignments on the left in Greek politics , where the KKE was the major element in the Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos , of which Florakis was president ) since its formation in 1989 , and had been part of the two government coalitions in power from July 1989 until February 1990 [ see pp. 36738-39 ; 37050-51 ; 37263-64 ] . |
| 30 | Maria Damanaki was elected president of the Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos ) on March 18 . |