Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
| 2 | The fact that the people involved who killed Chai in the snackbar fight were mostly ‘ unemployed youths ’ , seemed to emphasise for the young intellectuals the disrespect for knowledge prevalent in a money-orientated society . |
| 3 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 4 | 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ . |
| 5 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 6 | Also under discussion were the wording of the US State Department memorandum of understanding and " letters of assurances " which would define for the various parties the procedure of the peace conference , the terms of participation and US policy towards it . |
| 7 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 8 | However , for the individual readers the impact of reading of reports of sex crime in the national press is likely to be more important in moulding their view of what is happening in the nation . |
| 9 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 10 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 11 | For the evolving herbivores the advantage of an upright stance was soon complemented by the ability to rear up on hind legs to reach higher-growing plants . |
| 12 | During the Napoleonic wars the number of prosecutions for sodomy increased . |
| 13 | Personal and telephone bookings can be made at the Cashier 's Office , University of Ulster , Coleraine during the following hours The Cashier 's Office also accepts postal bookings . |
| 14 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 15 | During the final minutes the woman in front of us exploded . |
| 16 | During the relevant years the school had surplus pupil capacity and was thus able to take the sons of the taxpayers without turning away other boys able to satisfy the educational entry requirement . |
| 17 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 18 | During the subsequent weeks the haematocrit usually stabilises at a low level , but only at the expense of a two- to three-fold compensatory expansion of erythropoiesis . |
| 19 | During the inter-war years the trend seems to have been towards increasing privatisation of the respectable working class family . |
| 20 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 21 | A way of finding out things not only about going faster and further , but also about the new things the child suddenly finds himself able to do . |
| 22 | As most of the time taken is used up in searching through the various models the speed of the system will be a trade-off between the range of speakers it can understand and the number of words in the vocabulary . |
| 23 | Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see . |
| 24 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 25 | Constipation can also encourage cellulite formation — if the waste matter is not leaving the body through the normal channels the body will store it away from the bloodstream and again the islands of fat cells causing cellulite provide the perfect storehouse . |
| 26 | Behind him through the thin curtains the sky was beginning to grow dark . |
| 27 | So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen . |
| 28 | But soon after the Napoleonic Wars the incidence of peasant disturbances began to rise again : there was a serious outbreak in the Urals in 1835 and widespread violence in 1847 . |
| 29 | Indeed after the Napoleonic Wars the standard of life declined , low wages and poor housing leading to riots in Kent while during the winter of 1830 , rick burning took place and farm machinery was destroyed . |
| 30 | After the numerous alterations the palazzo was renamed several times , becoming the Palazzo Nationale of the Cisalpine Republic and the Palazzo Reale , the royal palace , property of the Crown , following unification . |