Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as crime figures soar , Labour has for months poured scorn on the Tory claim to be the party of law and order . |
| 2 | The cash was deducted by the League to pay fines and costs imposed on Barnet after investigations last year into the club 's books . |
| 3 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |
| 4 | In 1978 the Kufra Assembly met for a couple of hours each evening for a week . |
| 5 | ‘ And he telephoned me a couple of times that week from the Institute . ’ |
| 6 | Here the amount of information coded is calculated by simply summing the number of times each category from the coding system was used . |
| 7 | Clearly , the circuit behaves as a rejection filter and figure 8.8(c) gives its response over a range of frequencies either side of the rejection frequency . |
| 8 | Very often the swim you have chosen will not need any modification whatsoever , but on lakes where the banks are swampy and surrounded by a wide belt of rushes some preparation in the close season is necessary . |
| 9 | The city had to offer higher than average wages to attract civil servants from the Reich and was also forced to make a contribution to the salary and expenses of the League of Nations High Commissioner to the tune of £44,000 per year . |
| 10 | It is the high stakes , no doubt , allied to the frustration of failing to achieve personal ambitions , which have led to a number of outbreaks this season on the professional Tours . |
| 11 | a program with minimal screen output of words 2. relegation of the microcomputer to a passive role 3. withdrawal of the teacher from the discussion . |
| 12 | The most popular story told by the regulars to casual strangers , concerned a very large Swedish seaman who had visited the Blue Boar with a couple of shipmates one evening before the war . |
| 13 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |
| 14 | Recommendations included a trade matching system to which all institutional members should be members by 1992 , confirmation and matching of trades one day after the transaction , dematerialisation of share certificates , a delivery-against-payment system by 1992 , three-day rolling settlement by 1992 , and the ability to borrow and lend securities , which helps in breaking a line of unsettled bargains . |
| 15 | Workmen have lopped off more branches in an effort to save the tree , visited by thousands of fans each year on the anniversary of Bolan 's death . |
| 16 | In the mid-1980s , a number of concerns focussed attention on the transfer of land from agriculture to forestry , including surpluses of farm products , falling farm incomes , high rates of wood imports , and damage to wildlife and landscape in rural areas . |
| 17 | Following our theme this month of reproduction PETER GUYETT starts a series of articles next month on the laws covering furniture designs , reporting on copyright , registration and patents . |
| 18 | MORE THAN 350 oil workers were airlifted ashore by a fleet of helicopters last night from an accommodation vessel adrift in the North Sea . |
| 19 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 20 | The many millions of divorces each year in the western world reveal the starkly real statistics of family unhappiness and breakdown . |
| 21 | The kind of promises each party to the contract makes will vary , but one fairly typical example is for the teenager to promise to tidy his bedroom once a week , to let parents know when he will be late home from school or where he is and who he is with when he goes out . |
| 22 | Fifty-seven and a half battalions of troops restored order in a month with about a thousand Indian casualties , aircraft being used on a number of occasions to machine-gun crowds from the air . |
| 23 | If the Alexander Technique was introduced into schools the country could save thousands of millions of pounds each year from the cost of the National Health service , let alone the misery it would save for millions of people . |
| 24 | He had men in Paris , Berlin , Rome , Belfast and elsewhere to search out the merchandise needed to satisfy the voracious appetite of the Chicago store and , by 1875 , was dispatching three-million-dollars worth of goods each year across the Atlantic . |
| 25 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 26 | Large hotels often have agreements with airlines or travel agents whereby they reserve a certain number of rooms each night on a guaranteed basis . |
| 27 | He played a number of games that season in a centre midfield role . |
| 28 | It was also a country which consciously rejected the ‘ continental Sunday ’ and whose Grand Lodge of Freemasons severed contact with the French Grand Orient when French freemasonry no longer required of its members a belief in the Grand Architect of the Universe . |
| 29 | Significantly , the yellow cards shown to Kidd and Honor took Airdrie 's haul of bookings this season to a dismal 87 . |
| 30 | The Peel Park building was selected for the short-list of the Glasgow Institute of Architects annual competition for the best new building . |