Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 2 | Public affairs , local authority , government , financial , and charity public relations all call for different talents so the people working in these areas often have very different educational backgrounds and work experience from those doing consumer public relations . |
| 3 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 4 | It was n't King Street any more of course — at least , not officially , for some months earlier the Cork Corporation had defiantly renamed it MacCurtain Street in honour of the city 's martyred Lord Mayor . |
| 5 | For some shares therefore the deals were often done on a matched basis . |
| 6 | Mobilisation of the internal calcium occurs after 0.75–1.8 seconds following the addition of thrombin ( Feinstein , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 8 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
| 9 | Only for Japanese eyes yet the Mazda AZ-1 |
| 10 | In this case calculating recognition measures for individual stimuli is initially of more interest than doing so for individual subjects thus the data is aggregated across subjects . |
| 11 | Where the Regulations apply , they give a cooling-off period entitling the customer to cancel the agreement at any time ‘ within the period of 7 days following the making of the contract . ’ |
| 12 | If the IMF had been a major borrower and issuer of SDR-denominated assets then the SDR might have been used more extensively . |
| 13 | Of these divisions only the gastropods and cephalopods contain predators and in terms of the home aquarium we only really need to consider gastropods as octopi and squid are so seldom offered on the hobbyist market . |
| 14 | Of all abilities only the capacity to conceptualize has been found to correlate with the performance of managers . |
| 15 | They also observed that for some of those youngsters subsequently the change of direction brought only short-lived renaissance of interest and motivation before the same boredom and lack of achievement returned . |
| 16 | Such a memorial , however , was not likely to satisfy Catholics , Jews and members of other denominations so the RAF sought the help of the CWGC . |
| 17 | In the general case manufacturing costs are high compared with those of other functions so the function has a massive influence on company productivity . |
| 18 | The work of Religious Orders e.g. the Jericho Benedictines |
| 19 | If migration er increases to a hundred percent of past trends then the employment provision will have to increase also . |
| 20 | His cooling-off period does not expire until the end of seven days following the acceptance . |
| 21 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |
| 22 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
| 23 | For these reasons alone the issue must be dealt with from the outset with as much information as is possible . |
| 24 | For these wells either the section has been buried more deeply in the past than at present or geothermal gradients have been significantly higher in certain parts of the basin . |
| 25 | ‘ There is no appeal against individual cautions so the booking still stands , ’ he added . |
| 26 | O'Hara , he said , was the terrifying shadow on the wall which every child saw through half-closed lids once the nursery door had shut . |
| 27 | For legal reasons neither the girl 's identity nor that of her mother or foster parents can be revealed . |
| 28 | For many years now the relationship between the prison staff and the Home Office has been — at its very calmest — one of simmering discontent . |
| 29 | Many elderly people live in their own homes for many years following the death of a husband or a wife . |
| 30 | By charting in fixed and variable costs , and then showing revenue , it is possible to see the point at which total revenue equates with total costs ie the break-even point . |