Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ for the purpose other than a purpose prescribed under section 16 ( 2 ) , Vehicles ( Registration and Licensing ) Regulations 1971 . ’ |
| 2 | By contrast , answering some questions about intervals between dates is much more difficult for the bottom third when no calendar is provided than when it is ; the top third are about as successful whether or not a calendar is provided . |
| 3 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 4 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 5 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 6 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 7 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 8 | For the past 11 and a half years , Michelle Howard has been paralysed from the chest down ; the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in 1982 . |
| 9 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 10 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) The offeror should ensure that the terms of its banking facilities are compatible with the terms of the offer and the requirements of the Code ( in particular that there is an unconditional commitment to provide the cash resources for the consideration payable if the offer becomes or is declared unconditional ) . |
| 12 | That would leave the bulk of the bag free for the plutonium 239 and the firing mechanism John had described . |
| 13 | There needs to be a recognition that appeals for aid must also have spin-off for the company concerned if the appeal is likely to succeed . |
| 14 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 15 | ‘ The police assumed that the money he gave her was his bonus for the Madrid Open and the Italian Championship . ’ |
| 16 | The daily flight in Georgia that saves room for the war dead and the dying The departure from front-line Sukhumi to the capital of Tbilisi is heavily patronised , but the passengers are rarely concerned about anything as mundane as corporate business , James Meek in Georgia discovers |
| 17 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 18 | All Machynlleth drivers are passed for the Class 31 and the last one passed out only in the week before the new timetable came in . |
| 19 | As was pointed out in the judgment , ‘ In some contractual relationships , for example life assurance and pensions schemes — some aspects of the law regulating conditions of employment , and … various state-run schemes such as national insurance ’ , 35 it is ultimately a matter for the parties concerned whether the individual should be treated as a man or a woman . |
| 20 | There is no use for the material other than the project . |
| 21 | And on the M twenty five between junctions fifteen and sixteen , that 's for the M four and the M forty , there 's heavy clockwise traffic . |
| 22 | This article will look at the work of the Commissioner during the past four and a half years , the problems which she has faced , and will conclude that she provides a model for other areas of dispute resolution . |
| 23 | During the Maastricht Fair and the Basel Fair this year we experienced new and strong interest in fine quality continental pottery and porcelain . |
| 24 | The work was carried out during the period 1980–1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition . |
| 25 | It was also during the period 1924–35 that a forging of closer relationships between the WEA and the Trade Union movement was attempted . |
| 26 | Public confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low — hardly surprising , considering recent miscarriages of justice such as the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six cases . |
| 27 | In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground . |
| 28 | As the aircraft landed and the pressmen poured out , they were met by a hoard of local photographers . |
| 29 | The ‘ real ’ runway , which from the air does n't even look like a runway , is to the side and northern edge of the race circuit , between the circuit proper and the boundary of the owned area . |
| 30 | There 's more common ground between the Mercedes-Benz S-class and the Sauber-Mercedes World Sports Car Champion than meets the eye . |