Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting for the inescapable shout of discovery . |
| 2 | On May 12 and 13 around 1,000,000 Italians voted in elections for 28 municipal authorities and for the provincial government of Caserta , near Naples . |
| 3 | Well Bobby we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford erm not only next week for the press launch but for the actual day in April . |
| 4 | We present results for the actual activity of Ca 2 + and pH in human gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease and in patients without gall stones ( controls ) . |
| 5 | Check the TV schedules on Thursday for the actual date of transmission . |
| 6 | In Scotland , the assessors , in discussions with the Inland Revenue valuation office in Scotland , have been preparing for the actual task of valuation , which will get under way shortly . |
| 7 | Drugs provided the wherewithal for the actual suspension of reality — a route so desperately sought , for instance , by those young men wearing American uniforms in that far-off land of Vietnam . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now announce the results of his consideration of the case for the posthumous pardon of Derek Bentley . |
| 9 | In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 10 | THE discreet charm of Galerie Vivienne was invaded by the Cognoscenti Noirs — the hoards of black-clad fashion folk in Paris this week for the hectic timetable of runway shows , previewing designers ' ready-to-wear collections for next winter . |
| 11 | She watched amazed as the broken ranks filed past in utter silence , silence save for the dull rattle of equipment . |
| 12 | ‘ If your taste for the dull business of railroad contracting has reawakened , ’ she began . |
| 13 | The need to tackle the budget deficit and to reduce inflation was expected to lead to tight fiscal policies , especially if the government wanted to avoid asking the IMF for the estimated requirement of $2,000 million to boost foreign exchange reserves , and instead to raise the money in the commercial market [ for March 1990 budget see pp. 37315-16 ] . |
| 14 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 15 | One of these , intriguingly , was the non-existent Board of Magistrates for the Petty Sessions of Heaton Norris : the Charity Commissioners had been rather concerned , during the drafting of the Scheme , that letters addressed to this body were never answered , but pressed on with its inclusion regardless . |
| 16 | German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer stressed that it was a " one-off " operation and that there was no question of the German government assuming " default liability " for the criminal behaviour of disposal firms or inaction by state authorities . |
| 17 | For the first time , to anything like that extent , parents are liable for the criminal activities of juveniles . |
| 18 | Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics . |
| 19 | For the Roman ruins of Tyre , a few of the old Ottoman harbour warehouses , the little Christian streets near the port , are still there . |
| 20 | IX and X. Similar types of kiln-burnt bricks were utilised to make the piers for the Roman system of hypocaust under-floor heating ( page 63 and XI ) . |
| 21 | For the odd shifts of emphasis |
| 22 | Behind the stripey brick facade , on a run-down street behind the market , there was an interesting building , one room wide but 100 yards deep , deserted except for the odd work of art . |
| 23 | The southwestern and south-eastern examples were apparently staggered slightly , accounting for the odd diversion of Ermine Street on the south-east . |
| 24 | The Conference was well attended by 120 delegates and proved to be a most useful exercise for the mutual exchange of information and ideas . |
| 25 | He explained that he was interested in SCO being as strong as possible for the mutual fight against Microsoft . |
| 26 | It will also provide for the mutual recognition of diplomas and other professional qualifications throughout the EEA . |
| 27 | Agreement was reached only after the government withdrew a clause providing for the automatic dismissal of workers who did not comply . |
| 28 | In the early 1970s , Habitat was the first retailing company to install electronic point of sale systems ( EPOS ) in its stock control department for the automatic replenishment of stocks . |
| 29 | The development of methods for the automatic scanning of flow photographs enables far more information to be obtained and is likely to become increasingly important . |
| 30 | Each committee was aware of the dangers of individual or mass arrest , and contingency plans were made for the automatic replacement of committee members should they be arrested . |