Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is further argued that , in the case of those who are mentally frail , they may no longer be capable of exercising informal consent or its converse — refusal ; and that resistance to leaving their own home may sometimes be as much about fear of the unknown as love of the familiar . |
| 2 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 3 | Conservative Michael Fallon hit back saying his own Darlington constituency was far from being an unemployment blackspot and pointing to four pages of jobs carried in yesterday 's copies of The Northern as evidence of available vacancies . |
| 4 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 5 | Surrealist photography indeed developed techniques that self-consciously played upon this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 6 | Surrealist photographers indeed developed techniques which self-consciously addressed this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 7 | Further demonstrations , described by observers as the largest since independence , were held subsequently and led to widespread unrest in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 8 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 9 | Hostels Researchers at The Policy Studies Institute were commissioned by the then Department of Health and Social Security to study the extent to which hostels for the needy provided care as well as accommodation and food , to enable the department to decide if , how , and by whom they should be funded . |
| 10 | The profile of the sphincter after operation did not differ significantly from the profile before operation in either group of patients . |
| 11 | This has been capped by the well publicised current appearance of no less than Rain Man ( Warner ) for sale ( £14.99 ) as well as for rent , when hitherto the two spheres have tacitly been regarded as mutually exclusive . |
| 12 | The incident has revived memories of the dark days in the sixties when foot and mouth threatened to wipe out millions of pounds worth of beef and dairy cattle . |
| 13 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 14 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 15 | At home many Americans feared a return to the depression conditions of the 1930s as war production slowed down . |
| 16 | ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . |
| 17 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 18 | In fact , the only territory on the northern shores of the Mediterranean where malaria is actively transmitted today is in the Chukhurova plain of Turkey . |
| 19 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 20 | ‘ The sort of judgmental work that the study suggests the external assessor will do will be of a much higher standard requiring people at no less than partner or senior manager level . |
| 21 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 22 | Above the usual Fraggle style , the leaping around and smiling a lot stage presence , the Northampton four-piece have a frontman with a larger than life aura akin to Perry Farrell and Miles Hunt . |
| 23 | The problem was worsened in the big city centres by the inflation of land prices from the 1860s as demand for shop , office and factory building mounted . |
| 24 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 25 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 26 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
| 27 | It is very possible to sympathize in good part , if not entirely , with the psychologists and philosophers who were sceptical or uncertain of the worth of introspection as a source of knowledge , reluctant to attempt to deal with the unquantifiable , keen to be in accord with certain principles of scientific methodology , resistant to such free speculation as the Freudian kind , and who thus took the step of analysing ascriptions of consciousness into claims about no more than behaviour . |
| 28 | The theory remains a controversial one but Dr Kinlen told The Scotsman that it is becoming harder to dismiss the findings as no more than chance . |
| 29 | Conservative councillors called for further talks with the disabled before traffic is banned from the Skinnergate and High Row area on March 29 . |
| 30 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |