Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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31 The canoes shot forward , Paula 's drawing level with the Whale 's head .
32 Glossy surfers ' hair , eyes blue as a robin 's egg and a dreamy far-off ocean at dawn .
33 The Frank & Walters look dubious about the crew 's certainty .
34 In this case , the songwriter should retain his or her songs ' copyrights , and the publisher is responsible for administering the song catalogues ( collecting the money payable to the writer 's songs ) .
35 ( c ) With other solicitors The overriding principle is the obligation to act with complete frankness and good faith consistent with a solicitor 's responsibilities to his client .
36 Both of these , notably , represented conservative tendencies within the UCR favourable to the government 's current economic reform policies .
37 As the game appeared to be continuing quite happily without our help we discussed the case and agreed a settlement subject to the client 's approval , which was quickly obtained .
38 The monetary sector now comprises those institutions subject to the Bank 's supervisory powers under the 1987 Banking Act .
39 The Medium-Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) introduced in 1980 aimed to set out a medium-term financial framework for the monetary and fiscal policies consistent with the government 's overall strategy for reducing inflation and laying the foundations for sustainable economic growth .
40 Yet , the benefit inherent in a holder 's right to sue the carrier may well be worth the burden of having to pay unpaid freight .
41 It necessitates active asset/liability management due to a bank 's exposure to currency fluctuations and volatile interest rates .
42 People are viewed as having a ‘ station ’ or ‘ groove ’ in society ; notions which imply a distinctive balance between rights and duties inherent in an individual 's social role or function .
43 He looked hurt when she did n't join him , his emotions transparent as a child 's .
44 Halfway up was a landing lighted by a small Gothic-shaped window with leaded panes — a window fit for a witch 's gingerbread house .
45 They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical .
46 DNase I hypersensitivity ( DH ) analysis was performed on nuclei isolated from Long 12 spleen , a high copy number transgenic mouse , and compared with DH sites present in the control BALB/c spleen and B cell line Wehi 231 .
47 The electrons and ions thus tend to co-rotate , that is , to have sidereal orbital periods equal to the planet 's sidereal axial period .
48 Recruitment in some subjects such as mathematics fell 32% short of the government 's targets .
49 Applied Materials Inc has an $11m order for semiconductor fabrication equipment from Goldstar Electron Ltd for the company 's new 8 ’ wafer fab plant in Chungju , South Korea .
50 As it faces the power of capital organized in interlocking but legally separate corporate entities , labour is now cut up into atomized units of which the boundaries are by law coterminous with the employers ' definitions of employment units in both private and public sectors .
51 The terms of engagement should be drafted to embrace matters critical to the firm 's role , the transaction contemplated and the responsibilities to be undertaken .
52 The instantaneous binary representation of phase angle at the adder 's output is offset from the original by a quantity proportional to the input 's value ( b ) .
53 A passage reminiscent of the Buddha 's final word to Ananda .
54 In yet a second , spirited dawn attack on the 10th , his regiment had pushed the Germans out of another small wood adjacent to the Bois des Corbeaux .
55 To instruct any solicitorappointed on all matters relevant to the child 's interests , including the possibilities for appeal , unless the child wishes to give conflicting instructions and has sufficient understanding to do so .
56 As Fig. 7.1 illustrates , the greatest risk of desertification is in areas adjacent to the world 's hot hyper-arid zones , and include rain-fed croplands , irrigated lands and rangelands .
57 Furthermore , tensions ensuing from the USSR 's need to support its claim to be the vanguard of world revolutionary movements and its interests as a nation state ( and subsequently as a world superpower ) were felt particularly acutely in these early years .
58 It may be supported by the behaviour of a child sensitive to the parent 's feelings .
59 This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement .
60 Certain essential services such as health and education should be available from the public sector irrespective of the citizen 's means .
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