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

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1 Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio .
2 The new row follows plans by BC to seek voluntary redundancies at Point of Ayr to reduce the workforce from 467 to around 150 , about 100 more job losses than envisaged under the new working regime .
3 He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original
4 Inform your neighbours ; notify the local fire brigade if required by a local byelaw .
5 To reach Ireby , descend alongside the wall heading south-west , crossing it where convenient and continuing down the other side until confronted by a large shakehole with a floor of boulders .
6 Extra sanding discs are available for only £2.49 if ordered at the same time as the Bench Sander .
7 Learning Classics or memorizing the year by year achievements of a football club will enhance the individual 's reputation in certain environments , but will prove a poor investment if used in the wrong circumstances .
8 PHOTOGRAPHY magazine will endeavour to return all entries if accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope .
9 All home-made creams and ointments will keep for several months if stored in a cool dark place .
10 I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far .
11 Why not visit Castle Caldwell Forest , and enjoy the delights of a National Nature Reserve ( see no 9 ) or enjoy a picnic while taking in the beautiful views of Glenelly Valley and Sperrin Mountains ( see no 17 ) .
12 Taken together , these findings exclude the possibility that either apoptosis or the protective effect of bcl-2 involves the mitochondrial respiratory chain , at least in these cells under the conditions that we have studied , and raise the possibility that the Bcl-2 protein might exert its protective effect while bound to the continuous nuclear and ER membrane .
13 Yet the reality has been so , so different , with the latest low occurring when he damaged medial knee ligaments while playing in a reserve match last Thursday .
14 A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday .
15 The 42-year-old woman was forced to drive a raider who hijacked her car while fleeing from a bungled bank robbery .
16 However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share .
17 At best the idea of action as produced by the following of a rule is an icon or model of the process by which actions are really generated .
18 They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality .
19 Readers can check this result by subtracting Project C's cash flows from Project D's cash flows and solving for the IRR as outlined in the previous paragraph .
20 These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club .
21 The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way .
22 SYMBOL OF ORGANIC QUALITY organically grown This product is recognised by the Soil Association as coming from a natural and sustainable system of agriculture using environmentally sound practices and avoiding synthetic fertilisers and sprays .
23 They are based on notions of the future as envisioned in the first major exposition of the 1930s in America Chicago 's 1933 ‘ Century of Progress ’ .
24 Its stretchability should be low to assist hook penetration when striking over the great distance , but a certain amount of stretch is needed as a safety margin to assist the cushioning effect of the rod .
25 In contrast , the soviet-communist theory of the press involves the state ownership of all media , which are then harnessed to the achievement of national goals as defined by the ruling party and government .
26 By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability .
27 When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll .
28 Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform .
29 Yorkshire cricket-lover and historian Tony Woodhouse suffered broken legs when hit by a swerving car recently , and is expected to spend the rest of the summer in hospital .
30 Sports shops are stocking up on odd trainers as worn by the pint-sized star — leaving parents to foot a bill of around £160 when they are asked to provide the ill-matching black and white pairs .
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