Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 2 | After two successful years ' trading , Nomad Books of Fulham in central London has moved into larger premises . |
| 3 | the paper was selected by the BAIE to take part in a Federation of European Industrial Editors ' association competition . |
| 4 | In the fading days of the postwar consensus , under the Labour patriarchy of that civil servants ' union boss Jim Callaghan , Apocalypse seemed more viable than pleasure . |
| 5 | Such confidence is further strengthened when there is positive and practical help available to the teacher in the form of clear sequenced teachers ' notes with practical advice . |
| 6 | The phone of another leading miners ' union official was also allegedly tapped in the late 1970s , as was the phone of a shop steward at the Ford plant at Dagenham . |
| 7 | Organised by Brian and Anna Houghton , the London ceramics dealers who have launched two highly regarded specialist fairs in London during the past few years , it offered New Yorkers two innovations ; an expert vetting committee , which checked that every item was genuinely what it was said to be — there had never been vetting in America before — and a showcase in their own city of top European dealers ' wares . |
| 8 | The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " . |
| 9 | The nuclear power plant at Dounreay , Scotland , is breaking regulations on the storage and disposal of radioactive waste , according to a former nuclear waste manager and head of British Nuclear Fuels ' environment protection group , Bob Burton . |
| 10 | The bizarre story of British academic institutions ' flattery of the Ceauşescus could be repeated many times over in other impeccably democratic countries . |
| 11 | As British companies have become more international in their operations and UK profits have disappeared in the recession , the problem has grown dramatically worse ; about 40% of British listed companies ' profits now come from overseas . |
| 12 | Among the local peculiarities which needed to be swept away , the most important was the array of outlandish local saints ' days and festivals in the Canterbury calendar . |
| 13 | The share of these joint ventures ' results and net assets attributable to LASMO are fully reflected in the Group consolidated accounts . |
| 14 | Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do . |
| 15 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 16 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 17 | All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports . |
| 18 | All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports . |
| 19 | Only 3% of all Californian banks ' $260 billion in loans are problem ones , as against 6.4% of New York banks ' $480 billion . |
| 20 | I hope that I have done justice to at least some part of all hon. Members ' contributions . |
| 21 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 22 | Credit was the solvent that oiled the wheels of many other retailers ' businesses . |
| 23 | Of course , the sad truth behind the break-up of many young couples ' marriages was just that — they 'd been too young . |
| 24 | It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium . |
| 25 | In these colourful tales , which we might almost believe were collected from early copies of ancient Israelite boys ' comics , Samson wages a one-man war against the Philistines , who are represented as having control of the country . |
| 26 | Most effort in promoting cooperatives as a means of increasing small farmers ' market power has been devoted to organising marketing and the provision of services . |
| 27 | All are striking , some are beautiful , others startling and a few may invoke an involuntary shudder — such as the ‘ Vogue Food Photograph ’ of oyster complete with inquisitively crawling snails and a pair of skinned raw frogs ' legs , or the ‘ Bug in Ear ’ , showing a black beetle poised at the entrance to the aural cavity . |
| 28 | All are striking ; some are beautiful , others startling and a few many invoke an involuntary shudder — such as the ‘ Vogue Food Photograph ’ of oyster complete with inquisitively crawling snails and a pair of skinned raw frogs ' legs , or the ‘ Bug in Ear ’ , showing a black beetle poised at the entrance to an aural cavity . |
| 29 | They are likely to include the following : ( a ) the execution and exchange of the acquisition agreement ( by which Newco will buy the business from the vendor ) ; ( b ) the managers having subscribed in cash for ordinary shares in Newco ; ( c ) the passing of any necessary shareholders ' resolutions ; ( d ) receipt by the investors of a satisfactory accountants ' report , audited accounts and management accounts ; ( e ) the managers having entered into service agreements ; ( f ) receipt by the investors of certificates of title ; ( g ) the investors being satisfied with the loan and banking facilities being provided to Newco ; ( h ) keyman insurance having been taken out for the benefit of the company over the lives of each of the managers . |
| 30 | By the late 1960s 56 per cent of managerial and 52 per cent of other non-manual workers ' wives then used reliable methods of contraception , while only 45 per cent of skilled manual workers ' wives and 38 per cent of other manual workers ' wives did so . |