Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Believers as yet can not praise this solution — though they have likewise despaired of waiting for political leaders to become planetary saviours . |
| 2 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 3 | Analysis of covariance for possible factors affecting mean hearing thresholds was carried out for each of the four different types of ear . |
| 4 | There is a tax difference as between private investors buying such gilts direct and buying via a fund , such as ours , in that the former strategy is exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 5 | It is equivalent to that plus erm the reduction for indiscretionary awards enabling young people to obtain training and education , plus also erm the reduction in erm access to higher education for people who are educationally disadvantaged . |
| 6 | Problems of morale and motivation ( such as accidents , absenteeism , lateness and waste ) are regarded as political problems requiring stronger commitment to the regime . |
| 7 | Its controversial contract with Rio-Tinto Zinc for Namibian supplies ends next year . |
| 8 | Although it may be advantageous for specific purposes to examine individual pebbles , under most circumstances the sedimentologist seeks to establish the character of an entire deposit , not simply the coarser fractions . |
| 9 | MapInfo Inc , Troy , New York , is shipping its MapBasic Development Environment for Unix calling it the first programming language for GUI systems allowing corporate developers to customise desktop mapping applications for a given industry or department . |
| 10 | Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks . |
| 11 | This results in a tendency for rural constituencies to have smaller electorates than urban constituencies . |
| 12 | In recent years it has been possible to study the mechanisms involved in the regulation postprandial gall bladder motility in detail because of the development of sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays for measurement of CCK and the availability of ultrasonography and cholescintigraphy as non-invasive methods to measure human gall bladder motility . |
| 13 | Their quarrels with one another did not really compromise these benefits , any more than quarrels between European nations prevented colonial administrators from giving much of the world the framework of European law and order . |
| 14 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 15 | Animals that received infusions during pre-exposure sessions showed normal habituation of the UR ( heart-rate deceleration ) evoked by the tone used as the stimulus . |
| 16 | As I have said , there will be opportunities for hon. Members to debate this matter during the debate on the Consolidated Fund Bill , if the subject is submitted . |
| 17 | We should , however , briefly note that because of their dependence on inside management for their tenure of office , their likely minority position , and the absence of a legal specification of the monitoring function and of the powers necessary to perform it , the potential for non-executive directors to exercise meaningful control over the executive members of the board will usually be slight . |
| 18 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 19 | Accommodation for residential programmes comprises 107 study bedrooms , each with its own telephone , clock-radio , tea/coffee making facilities and private wc and shower . |
| 20 | The guidance is part of a series issued by the Secretary of State for Social Services covering all aspects of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 21 | This research shows that there is an urgent need for social policies to overcome widespread age discrimination if older people are to be allowed to play their full role in society and realise their full potential . |
| 22 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 23 | Without a conceptual model of the market place and the organization 's possible place within it , general checklists of factors lack rigour and may simply make it easy for interested parties to emphasize different factors at different times , depending on their interests . |
| 24 | LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder . |
| 25 | It provided unparalleled opportunities for transnational companies manufacturing chemical fertilisers , pesticides , tractors and pump-sets to sell their wares to a vast new market . |
| 26 | At the other end of the scale , although in many cases it is open to private individuals to prosecute for breach of the criminal law , it is generally thought , for various reasons , that usually it is best for public prosecutors to take such action . |
| 27 | The ANOVA for repeated measures showed significant interaction ( p= 0.002 ) between groups and periods , indicating that the differences at successive measurements of IgM specific antibody secreting cells to gliadin between patients positive and negative to challenge were statistically significant . |
| 28 | Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles . |
| 29 | In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors . |
| 30 | First-class stockmen are considerably more common in this country than capitalists in Russia but , even with their expert help , total freedom for commercial animals shares many problems with the unbridled competition of free trade in the market place . |