Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Cleveland would need a massive government grant for its long-term plans for a supertram . |
2 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
3 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
4 | Canton , Ohio-based Diebold Inc has won the contract to be the exclusive supplier of new i Series cash dispensers to Electronic Data Systems Corp under the latter 's monster contract with Southland Corp for its 7-Eleven stores in the US : Diebold will supply up to 4,000 InterBold i Series cash dispensers over a three- to four-year period . |
5 | However , it must be remembered that the Chinese communists resembled the Kuomintang in using captured Japanese personnel for their own purposes after 1945 and indeed during the Chinese intervention in Korea from October 1950 . |
6 | Mr Branson demanded his rival came up with a large compensation settlement for its three years of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
7 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
8 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
9 | It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration . |
10 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
11 | Strategic Management for the Board — a two-day action based briefing for experienced board members requiring the opportunity for their strategic plans to be challenged by both their peers and leading authorities in strategic leadership . |
12 | And to set criteria for this strategic site exception policy which we feel should be added to the plan , to set this criteria in such a way that it would so point to the local authorities in the making of their local plans but it was clear that the policy did not provide a speculative opportunity for everybody any landowner throughout the county . |
13 | But Haig , ever the optimist , intent on winning the war with the BEF , now had the opportunity for his long-cherished campaign in Flanders . |
14 | Furthermore , despite the proven efficacy of warfarin in primary stroke prevention , physicians remain reluctant to prescribe oral anticoagulants for their older patients with AF because of fears about haemorrhagic complications and understandable concerns about drug compliance in elderly outpatients . |
15 | It 's claimed he made contact with the KGB on a vacation trip to Moscow during his second year at Oxford ; an argument that certainly does n't wash with Jesse Malkin . |
16 | But further concessions from these states to Soviet military requirements will in fact be difficult to justify while Soviet officials routinely castigate other developing states for their military concessions to the West . |
17 | Sauvy 's slimeball , however , is a beast of more exotic pedigree , an oozing being from outer space which has the ill fortune to meet a pair of climbers as its first encounter with human civilisation . |
18 | Laing 's desire to reduce physical exertion stemmed from personal experience during his early days on the shop floor . |
19 | All patients from that practice who have been admitted to any department of Bassetlaw Hospital ( except the units of psychiatry and paediatrics , which have their own similar systems ) have been assessed on admission for their likely needs on discharge . |
20 | Should the call come within the next week , I shall be taking out a full-page advert in the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus to express my thanks to you all for your support during my short period as manager . |
21 | This particular setting is very authentic and the cadets have had only the company of sheep during their enthusiastic quest for insurgents . |
22 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
23 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
24 | The object of the Act was to protect the minority of unwary consumers from possible exploitation by the minority of unscrupulous lenders who took unfair advantage for their own gain of their ‘ victims ’ ignorance . |
25 | York flop Kooyonga had every excuse for her tame display behind Rodrigo De Triano at York on Tuesday . |
26 | It tends , too , to use its attention to female subjects as an excuse for its continued neglect of other under-represented subject groups . |
27 | Table 4.3 shows at a glance the magnitude of flows for which various classes of NBFI were responsible in 1987 . |
28 | Western diplomats in Beirut believed that the delay was due to an internal dispute among the kidnap groups , or with their radical supporters in Iran , over the political value of each hostage , as well as concern among the kidnappers about their personal protection from future prosecution . |
29 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
30 | see you guys in a forthnight when i will be at white hart lane for my annual trip to england … ( anyone know of any good health club with hidden cameras where they can shoot my ‘ beatiful ’ body ? ; - ) he , he ) |