Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the associated qualities clearly relate to attributes which the animals undoubtedly possess — an elephant is an obvious symbol of strength and power in any culture — but it is by no means obvious why a bat should be associated with happiness or a deer with affluence . |
| 2 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 3 | Even in softly flowing ballets such as Monotone II where no impetus should be seen as deliberate , it must nevertheless be there and firmly controlled lf , for example , the two boys are to turn the girl sur pointe with her working leg stretched upwards and her head and body bent downwards over her supporting leg . |
| 4 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 5 | From the beginning of Chapter 1 onwards the majority of this book is taken up with assertions described as theorems ( or lemmas or corollaries ) followed by explanations purporting to be " proofs " . |
| 6 | The team heads remained in telephone contact , but hopes of agreement had faded by the end of January 1990 when the North called off all dialogue until the annual Team Spirit military exercises were concluded . |
| 7 | But the rise in aggregate demand was not anticipated at the end of period 0 when the price was set . |
| 8 | The one exception occurred during the night of Feb. 25-26 when a Scud landed on a US Army reserve barracks in Khobar City , near Dhahran , killing 28 US military personnel and wounding some 100 others . |
| 9 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 10 | ‘ The gift of dhamma ’ , says one of the pithy sayings in the Dhamma-pada ( verses about dhamma ) , ‘ exceeds all gifts ; its sweetness exceeds all sweetness ’ ; reminding the Christian of Psalm 19 where the Torah , the Law of the Lord , is described as ‘ sweeter than honey ’ . |
| 11 | A coup attempt was launched in the early hours of Oct. 13 when a group of soldiers unsuccessfully attacked an arsenal close to N'Djamena airport . |
| 12 | This new approach was heralded by the decision in Photo Production Ltd. v. Securicor Transport Ltd. ( 1980 ) in which the House of Lords swept away the doctrine that a fundamental breach of contract could prevent an exemption clause from providing a defence . |
| 13 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 14 | This is a specific application of ss34 and 35 of SGA 1979 where the buyer is given the right to examine the goods for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are in conformity with the contract determined at the contractual delivery point . |
| 15 | In this age of electricity and modern heating systems , there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago . |
| 16 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 17 | This reversal in fortunes was demonstrated in the local elections of April 1991 when the SDPJ lost 98 seats [ see pp. 38147-48 ] . |
| 18 | Although superficial and oversimplified , this piece touches upon important background to the reforms of Nicholas II e.g. the absence of a classless educational system , the failure of Alexander II 's modernisation of the agricultural base and liberal programme . |
| 19 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 20 | In the case of unregistered title , a search at HM Land Charges Registry against both the husband and the wife should be made , whilst a Form 94A Search is appropriate in the case of registered land ( except in the case of Precedent 41 when a Form 94C Search is appropriate . |
| 21 | These shifts are shown in the upper graph of Fig. 11 where the price level falls from OP to OP 1 . |
| 22 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 23 | The first signs of guilt being attached to the motor vehicle as the cause of the smog occurred during November 1949 when the Universities of California and Washington State football teams played a game at Berkeley , north California . |
| 24 | What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal . |
| 25 | These included : ( i ) extension of coverage to octopus , cuttlefish , primary cocoa products and essential oils ; ( ii ) lowering of dependency thresholds ( that is , the importance of an ACP country 's exports of a relevant product as a proportion of its total exports ) from 6 per cent to 5 per cent and from 1.5 per cent to 1 per cent in the case of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) ; ( iii ) abolition of the principle of repayment of interest-free loans granted under Stabex when export earnings permitted ( under Lome III only the LDCs had been exempted ) ; ( iv ) abolition of the Lome III mechanism for correcting exchange-rate fluctuations ( often called the " tunnel " ) in favour of a system of calculations based on the ECU . |
| 26 | This contrasts with Chapter III where the charge will arise under Case VI of Schedule D. That being so it seems to the author that one must apply the appropriate Case to the particular income — Schedule A , etc . |
| 27 | If it is required to determine the field of view under Option 2 then the answer Y will have been selected . |
| 28 | Under section 228 when a parent company is itself a subsidiary and its immediate parent is established under the law of a member State , it may , if certain conditions are fulfilled , be exempt from the requirement to prepare group accounts . |
| 29 | The IASC exposure draft proposes that certain preferred shares , for example those where the holder has the right to require redemption , be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 30 | Second , God guides through other Christians , as he did in Acts 6 when the whole multitude chose the Seven , or in Acts 13 when the Spirit spoke to the church at Antioch about the need for Paul and Barnabas to go abroad . |