Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a young postgraduate research worker my doctoral thesis began from a discussion in a staff common room on the concept of ‘ community ’ . |
| 2 | Her straw skirt oot fur its annual air . |
| 3 | But the news that Dalglish is prepared for another big-name auction will dismay his former Liverpool team-mate Graeme Souness , as he makes his own bid for Ferdinand . |
| 4 | Part of the crime prevention initiative which many police forces are following is to assist the public to take more precautions to help themselves . |
| 5 | The device contains a carbon dioxide cylinder which released gas into a coiled chamber . |
| 6 | Information International Inc of Culver City , California is to assist IBM Corp market its two-dimensional Power Visualization System to its customers . |
| 7 | We humans used the bridge , but of course , Sally had to negotiate this dry Derbyshire creek bed her own way . |
| 8 | Network South East say their well-rehearsed procedures worked well today |
| 9 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 10 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 11 | Park View Community Association stage their annual 10km road race at Chester-le-Street this morning ( 10.10 ) . |
| 12 | Artemis much preferred things that were real , such as the injured squirrel she had rescued and nursed back to health , and her pet hen Jemima whose broken leg she and Rosie had mended , and who every now and then was allowed up to the nursery . |
| 13 | Compare this with Gloucester , for instance , which tested 300 drivers last year , of whom 75 proved positive ; or Thames Valley police who this year recorded 332 breath tests in the ten days up to 30 December . |
| 14 | This will be achieved through the annually updated three-year community care plans which local authorities are required to produce for the Secretary of State 's approval . |
| 15 | His decision in 1967 to support Nasser in the six-day war cost Jordan its western half and ended Arab control of Jerusalem , Islam 's third-holiest city . |
| 16 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 17 | Police are investigating a £3m deficit at Craven Grain , the Leominster grain co-op which last week accepted the resignation of general manager Brian Muxlow . |
| 18 | I conceive of the brain as like a colour television screen whose many particles light up to form pictures . |
| 19 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 20 | Mr Chance , of Nunthorpe , Cleveland , is a charity worker extraordinaire whose good deeds are mostly connected with mental handicap . |
| 21 | Under the 1924 Regulations , university extension courses which aggregated tuition over a minimum of eighteen hours were eligible for grant-aid and were somewhat similar to WEA Terminal courses . |
| 22 | Diminishing environment returns from refinements to petrol-driven cars and uncertainty over which alternative power sources to pursue will complicate the plan , according to motor industry experts who last week testified before the clean air and nuclear regulation subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee . |
| 23 | Juan Atkins gave all the major Motor City movers their initial recording breaks — Anderson , May and Fowlkes were all released first on Metroplex . |
| 24 | Both Albert Cavalcanti , the onetime head of the GPO Film Unit whose Brazilian origins had made him unacceptable as a civil servant , and Watt joined the tight group of filmmakers Balcon had gathered round him at Ealing . |
| 25 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 26 | The growing corpus of US case law which these prohibitions have spawned , make it possible to devise a framework outlining the country 's current proscription of the abuse . |
| 27 | Understood in this sense professionalization contests what ordinary policemen and women see as long-established , wellgrounded , practical experience . |
| 28 | He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for . |
| 29 | Among those pardoned was former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger whose forthcoming trial , which was due to have begun on Jan. 5 , had produced documentation which had suggested that Bush had been much more deeply involved in the affair than he had ever previously been acknowledged [ see also p. 39087 ] . |
| 30 | The book is designed to develop the professional communication skills in English needed by pilots and air traffic controllers whose first language is not English . |