Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also BH and LY Skipper of Stockton have applied for permission to build a wooden stable building on land adjacent to Ash Tree Cottage , Roman Road in the village . |
| 2 | Other Nikiyas — Durante or Guillem — may for instance assume a charming Oriental fluidity in their arms , but only Asylnuratova 's urgency and amplitude of gesture can convey the destructive extremes of Nikiya 's nature . |
| 3 | Sidney 's Defence of Poetry for instance assumes a hostile critical environment , maintaining that there are important groups who mistrust poetic fictions altogether . |
| 4 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 5 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 6 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 7 | After breakfast came the one happy moment of the day , when the pupils could play and talk freely . |
| 8 | ENGLAND will be setting off to India after Christmas to face the mystical eastern spinners with the help of a magic carpet . |
| 9 | This call for help provokes a specific urgent reaction and interaction in the listener . |
| 10 | They include testimony from one witness who recalls dumping buckets of waste from the Manhattan Project , during work to produce the first atomic bomb in the early 1940s . |
| 11 | AGENDA for Peace estimates the current annual cost of UN peace-keeping at nearly $3 billion . |
| 12 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 13 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 14 | In an area of weak lordship , Louis was prepared to capitalize on a simple right of protection to claim an old public obligation , a new feudal lordship , and a new territorial stake . |
| 15 | Accusations of racism dogged the conservative General Election campaign in Cheltenham from start to finish . |
| 16 | Differences in time and type of fixation affect the intracellular staining pattern — that is , the strength of the staining and therefore the number of labelled cells . |
| 17 | The principle of Contrast places a strong pragmatic constraint on expressions in the lexicon . |
| 18 | The use of installation denies the individual sculptural attention on which her pieces used to depend . |
| 19 | The Maulvi of course selects a formal Arabic name , but the celebration I am telling you about involves choosing a name to call the child by . |
| 20 | You will of course get a good static BACKUP as part of the Stand-alone save_set , but if you are using tapes , the time taken to restore the LIFESPAN system may be prohibitive . |
| 21 | Once a well-fitting function has been obtained one can of course use the usual mathematical techniques to derive other indicators such rates of change , means or smoothed curves which suppress small deviations and show a trend . |
| 22 | One special case in which the influence of Islam made an important cultural contribution to the development of temporal concepts in Europe concerns music . |
| 23 | in addition , I have a Blue Ring Angel which at the time of purchase had a few white-spot-like fluffy things on the edges of his fins . |
| 24 | So out of sight and out of mind go the innocent wooden box and its equally innocent contents . |
| 25 | The second point of tension concerns a proposed new treaty of the union , under which republics would voluntarily surrender certain powers to the central government . |
| 26 | The bulk of the wood used in the six is still maple , although the ET range utilises a five-piece neck laminate , with two pieces of bubinga flanking the thin central section of maple . |
| 27 | The decision increased the degree of uncertainty surrounding the 1990 mayoral election , as none of the candidates for the Democratic primary , scheduled for the Sept. 11 , had managed to establish a clear lead . |
| 28 | This manner of association places the two C-terminal stalk regions some 140 apart ( Fig.5 a ) , oriented so that their polypeptide chains can each continue into the membranes of separate cells . |
| 29 | The history of religion demands a constant imaginative and creative effort to plumb the sources for new insight to meet the demands and needs of the present . |
| 30 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |