Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 2 | He did his work here well and thoroughly , but he hankered , every so often , for the rough grey seas and painted , cloud-dappled hills of Northumberland , and his children , and the soil that knew his step and warmed under the sole of his foot , like a caress . |
| 3 | Higher taxes , the most sensible route , are probably out — both for the usual political reasons and because this year nobody wants to reopen last October 's budget agreement . |
| 4 | For example , in Israel , a special project designed to improve the performance of indigenous paraprofessionals in their work with a variety of needy groups , including families on public assistance , homebound elderly persons , residents of low-income housing projects , and discharged prisoners , the best results were achieved when ‘ parallel training ’ was provided for the professional social workers and indigenous paraprofessionals involved ( Kestenbaum , et al . , |
| 5 | These may also be responsible for the associated climatic phenomena and may be blamed on the effects of plate tectonics with the rise and fall of mid-ocean ridges and the displacement of water by the piling up and erosion of new orogenic belts . |
| 6 | The Games , already destined to be the largest ever , now have to find room for the extra 3,306 competitors and officials registered by the end of last month , bringing the total to 18,306 . |
| 7 | After weighing for the heaviest berry — duly recorded in the ledger by the recorder — any prizewinning berry is removed before they are weighed for the heaviest twelve awards and then again selected for the heaviest six . |
| 8 | The Link group acts as a forum for the major environmental issues and agrees strategies to combat existing problems . |
| 9 | This is most confusing since , in England and Wales , there are local government departments — the social services departments — that are responsible for the personal social services but are not directly concerned with health or social security , the main concerns of the secretary of state . |
| 10 | As they listened and watched the news from their former homeland it has been distressing for the five native speakers and difficult to maintain their professional distance from events . |
| 11 | He provided portraits for the various colonial communities and dignitaries , and made pictorial ‘ views ’ and ethnic studies . |
| 12 | ‘ As it turned out , we launched attack after attack for the entire 90 minutes and there was simply no respite . |
| 13 | I had run in the trials for the European Junior Championships and finished fifth in the 100 metres in 10.6 seconds , wind assisted . |
| 14 | A further gain is that we do not need a sampling frame for the 10 000 cattle but only for each of the 10 herds ; such a frame could be constructed on the investigator 's arrival at a farm . |
| 15 | Thank you also for the many beautiful tributes and the donations sent for the Cynthia Spencer Unit . |
| 16 | The crofter could apply for the ‘ de-crofting ’ of his land , but if this were approved he would no longer be eligible for the many special rights and privileges enjoyed by crofting tenants . |
| 17 | Central Council would like to express their gratitude for the many generous donations and gifts which help to maintain the high standard of care given to the Home 's guests . |
| 18 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 19 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 20 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 21 | For the first fifteen years or so of its existence , little was published in the way of critical assessment of the Urban Programme . |
| 22 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 23 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 24 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 25 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 26 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
| 27 | She did five episodes a week for the first two years but then began to ease up after her record career began to take off . |
| 28 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 29 | The breakdown of the prize-money for the event was £1,000 per hole for the first nine holes and £2,000 for the second nine holes , plus £250 for every birdie and £500 for every eagle . |
| 30 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |