Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We have already seen that in order to pay for public goods and redistribution the government must raise tax revenues , which typically introduces allocative distortions and leads to a dead-weight burden .
2 The 18-year-olds decided last September to organise a number of money-making schemes and hand the cash over to charity .
3 However , in spite of Chinese appeals and criticism a Japanese government spokesperson said on Nov. 13 that it was " too early " to consider a resumption of the 1990-95 suspended loan programme worth 810,000 million yen ( approximately $5,600 million ) .
4 Stir in oodles of special effects and hand the wooden spoon to Robert ‘ Back To The Future ’ Zemeckis .
5 The miller 's wife was just as mean as her husband , but their daughter Neva was quite different ; she was happy.natured and kind-hearted , sang all day at her work " like a thrush , and was as beautiful as she was kind , with summer-blue eyes and hair the colour of the sun 's rays at noon .
6 Standing between the two stone urns which Victoria had thoughtfully filled with pink geraniums and ivy the previous day , they made a pretty picture .
7 Frustrated ambitions can contribute to wrong expectations and fuel the fire of anger and resentment .
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