Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 2 | First of all , the main story in our news at five thirty , and I think unless anything more dramatic happens , it will be the main story right through the news bulletins of this programme . |
| 3 | In the event of the firm 's insolvency , such a salaried partner will be liable in respect of the firm 's debts together with the equity partners . |
| 4 | Table 5.6 shows a sample passage of handwritten text together with the recognition results for it , and the reductions in the number of candidates which would have been allowed , had a measure of word length been used . |
| 5 | Apply to one surface and clamp the surfaces together until the resin sets . |
| 6 | At a muddy little pond halfway up the hill swallows were dive-bombing its insect life and three brown pigs browsed at the further end of the meadow . |
| 7 | In Chapter 3 we identified ten ‘ generic activities ’ which we found to underpin primary classroom practice regardless of the subject labels used by the teacher , and argued that these activities therefore constitute at least as important a curriculum reality — certainly for children — as terms like ‘ topic ’ or even ‘ language ’ . |
| 8 | New product launches , for example , are often sprung on the PR department long after the lead times for important monthlies and weeklies have passed . |
| 9 | Untranslated sequences upstream of the coding regions 1 and 2 were found to be unrelated , and attempts to identify transcripts that contain linked 1 and 2 sequences by library screening or through RT-PCR experiments were unsuccessful ( data not shown ) . |
| 10 | A downstream firm may wish to integrate grate backwards despite the scale economies in order to value ( shadow price ) additional units of input at marginal cost . |
| 11 | I have purposely positioned this photograph away from the conference photographs to avoid readers confusing it with views of the Institute Officers . |
| 12 | Gill naturally began probing top British Aerospace personnel who , facing redundancy and compulsory relocation away from the Home Counties to the North of England , were interested in the opportunities on offer . |
| 13 | He also wanted voters to have the right to cast their ballots anywhere in Namibia , rather than in towns and villages where voters can be recognised , and to keep the tallymen from Namibia 's political parties away from the polling stations and from places where votes would be counted . |
| 14 | What Goody and Watt have in mind , however , in citing their Greek example , is not simply the adoption of a writing system in general but the development of a particular form of writing in a particular way : ‘ in the sixth and fifth centuries BC in the city states of Greece and Ionia … there first arose a society which as a whole could justify being characterised as literate ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | At this stage , Scott was obviously not pleading for the setting aside of the competition results , as has been suggested , but on the contrary , for the employment of the successful competitors , of whom there were four including Barry , with more right to the work than he had . |
| 16 | The creation of a zonal level of administration directly under the Home Affairs Ministry was announced at the end of 1988 with the 18 existing districts or dzongkhags to be grouped under four zonal administrative headquarters . |
| 17 | Rory took the low-slung car cautiously over the traffic humps . |
| 18 | has been considerable , Chairman my one concern which has in fact shared by Mrs as Mr referred in , in his letter is erm how long is this experiment should run for erm how long five point seven the first of three months , although the wording is n't , it is in fact half the recommendation , I would want to er agree with Mrs suggest that this be six months , erm because three months particularly in the winter months ca n't , ca n't really be considered a very thorough experimental period . |
| 19 | It 's eleven A M here in the cocoa plantations of Bahia in north east Brazil , and it 's already ninety degrees in the shade . |
| 20 | The Chancellor said he wanted talks with the opposition immediately after the Easter holidays . |
| 21 | His weekly half-hour CBC programme was one of the most popular and kept his Victor recordings high in the rating charts . |
| 22 | In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them . |
| 23 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 24 | Art historians may be interested in anything which requires the use of one 's eyes in order to understand it , from Chartres Cathedral and Michelangelo 's Moses to the signs and symbols of everyday life in twentieth-century society , and they may find the objects of their study anywhere from the sale rooms to the archaeologist 's excavation trench . |
| 25 | All they have to do is pick a hotel or apartment away from the disco areas . |
| 26 | They were also hampered from leaving Edinburgh to work in printing on war contracts elsewhere by the dilution agreements of 1934 . |
| 27 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 28 | Signal bells were operated by cords just above the saloon windows . |
| 29 | I do n't think I had any blood on my hands , for I had held her ankles just below the silver bracelets . |
| 30 | He only reveals his true feelings when he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave just before the curtain falls . |