Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | making a provision for the managers of tomorrow ; and |
| 2 | In September 1971 , a dispute in the printing industry kept New Scientist off the streets for nearly three months . |
| 3 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 4 | Amnesty International , the human rights organization , issued a report on Jan. 22 accusing the security forces of responsibility for the deaths of over 1,500 civilians and for the arrest and detention of a further 300 in the period since the Sept. 30 coup . |
| 5 | POLICE are interviewing a London-based independent financial adviser about the whereabouts of about £4.5m in client funds . |
| 6 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 7 | There is healthy eating available in today 's RAF , and with messing committees to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to contribute their views and ideas , there seems wider appreciation of the skills of today 's cooks and of the results that they achieve with their limited financial resources . |
| 8 | More detailed analysis of these and other cases provides confirmation of the findings of more systematic research into the factors which influence the success or failure of innovations : for example , the importance of communication , the role of product champions , the matching of technological and market opportunities , and the value of understanding user needs ( Rothwell , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | Two Tass reporters said tear-gas shells were fired over the heads of the demonstrators at around 11pm after an army officer had appealed in vain through a megaphone for them to disperse . |
| 10 | Sex is something with which the vast majority of any audience will be intimately familiar in one form or another , and this places the performances of the actors under unusually close scrutiny . |
| 11 | Er normal practice for the railway was to have the main er part of the buildings on the town side , and you got a er smaller building on the other side of the tracks over there . |
| 12 | The overall effect of the distortions to both the income statement and balance sheet is to give firm A a return on assets of 16.67 per cent and firm B a return on assets of 9.09 per cent even though both firms are identical in every way except for the inventory valuation method used . |
| 13 | For clients of the services for mentally ill people , protection of conditions of employment to work toward that outcome is important . |
| 14 | Officers had undertaken a review of the policies in both mental illness and mental handicap in response to the 1975 White Paper and 1976 priority services recommendations . |
| 15 | Ser Sergio 's in erm London at half term with the Cubs for about four days , I said do you fancy a sort of two or three day break , said one of these short breaks ? |
| 16 | But if the kid from Cardiff is n't too happy at his shunt to starboard — to make way for a revitalised Sharpe — the twin source of young skills looked a devastating force in the victories against both Oldham and Arsenal . |
| 17 | This is so with the statement that he hoped for a seat in the stalls for under £10 . |
| 18 | I want to knee David in the bollocks at least once today ? |
| 19 | I said I want to Da knee David in the bollocks at least once today . |
| 20 | The programme includes seminars exploring opportunities from the viewpoints of both franchisors and franchisees . |
| 21 | This demand for residential homes has as we have seen risen because of the decrease in the numbers of mentally handicapped children and adults living in hospitals . |
| 22 | He was an active figure in the Lords until only a week ago . |
| 23 | The SPD-led coalition governments in West Germany used Aussenseiter in order to integrate politics and administration in the persons of strategically sited officials ( Mayntz and Scharpf 1975 pp. 85 — 6 ) . |
| 24 | In April 1961 , when making recordings on the Carlisle-Edinburgh ‘ Waverley ’ route that has made a niche in the hearts of so many railway enthusiasts , Peter Handford had spent the day on Whitrope summit , but had eventually abandoned attempts at recording because of the unfavourable direction of the wind . |
| 25 | ‘ Just about , but there 's probably blood on the walls by now . |
| 26 | It is expected that their development plans for the new financial year will put a roof over the heads of about 7,000 people . |
| 27 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 28 | Even as he did so , the obstacle was removed because Jotan had dumped the hanks of haigus wool on the men from above so that they became entangled , tripped , and fell cursing . |
| 29 | This simple fact can not be overstressed and it accounts , in part , for the continuing lack of precise data on the numbers of physically handicapped in Britain : we do not know exactly how many people are physically disabled because they are not a clear homogeneous group that can be counted . |
| 30 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |