Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigrant workers , easy scapegoats for the newly reunited country 's economic ills , have been the latest victims of bigoted violence . |
| 2 | The under-16 team recently picked up an award as the most sporting girls ' rugby team and have completed a very successful season ; eight girls have been selected for the Lancashire under-18 team and three for the under-13 team . |
| 3 | YOUR story about the seriously ill children 's trip to Disney World was really touching . |
| 4 | On Tuesday night , panicky government whips scurried to and fro through the usually dignified members ' lobby , just outside the chamber , like mad hares . |
| 5 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 6 | Originally launched as a diploma in 1957 , the MSc in Applied Linguistics has since grown into one of the most comprehensive Master 's programmes of its kind in the country taught by the department with the close collaboration of the Institute for Applied Language Studies ( IALS ) , which is part of the department with a specialist interest in practical language pedagogy . |
| 7 | One of the most famous publisher 's imprints and devices , that of Aldus Manutius ( 1450–1515 ) , founder of the Aldine Press in Venice and introducer of italic type . |
| 8 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 9 | A SURVEY has shown one of the most popular girls ' names in Essex is Chelsea . |
| 10 | In the event , although the Victoria Press did last for over twenty years , and despite the creation in London in 1876 of the rather similar Women 's Printing Society , which also paid the full male rate , women compositors never penetrated the London trade to any extent . |
| 11 | Then the paper that had published the earlier report recognised her name as that of the rather hysterical women 's libber who was planning to expose PopCon as the enemy of women … and this seemed to clear the matter up . |
| 12 | Sexy actress Cleo pondered the dilemma at the launch of the equally saucy women 's magazine Playgirl . |
| 13 | She is Sue Leggate , editor of the immensely influential Consumers ' Association magazine Which ? |
| 14 | In a sense what we are witnessing are the birthpangs of ‘ a European bourgeois state without the usual trappings of bourgeois democracy ’ as 19th century historians described the emergence of the newly united Kaiser 's Germany . |
| 15 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 16 | It has neither the power nor the resources to counter the pressure of the exceedingly well-organized farmers ' lobby , nor is the level of unionization in agriculture sufficiently high — it is no more than 40 per cent — to permit the contemplation of widespread militant activity . |
| 17 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 18 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the very best children 's shows in the world ’ . |
| 20 | 1978 ) administered in the early stages of the visually handicapped child 's schooling is a useful predictor of areas of visual perception that may be a source of problems when the child is using ordinary play materials , pictures and toys . |
| 21 | There may be social aspects of the visually handicapped pupil 's life at school that can be helped by a perceptive specialist teacher who is able to facilitate communication over matters that a sensitive child or adolescent may be embarrassed to disclose . |
| 22 | Indirectly this problem reveals something of the organisation of craft activities in early Anglo-Saxon England , but we must be wary of categorising the period on the basis of the more influential members ' activities alone . |
| 23 | However , exclusive attention to falsifying instances amounts to a misrepresentation of the more sophisticated falsificationist 's position . |
| 24 | In the 1980s the government-funded Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) sponsored a scheme whereby the employer paid a percentage of the salary and costs of a partially disabled person 's employment in proportion to the individual 's assessed percentage contribution to the job in terms of how it would be performed by an average non-disabled person ; MSC paid the balance . |
| 25 | Combining narrative and soliloquy in its portrayal of a genuinely tragic character 's inner turmoil , Didon comes closest of all Campra 's cantatas to the emotional core of French opera . |
| 26 | There are risks of misjudging the nature of a visually handicapped pupil 's problems both in learning and in social situations . |
| 27 | Doddie 's had , finger-written on the side of a typically cared-for farmer 's car : ‘ Sponsored by his dad . ’ |
| 28 | In the words of the citations for Sam Beattie 's and ‘ Red ’ Ryder 's awards , these recognised : not only the individual 's valour but also that of a very gallant ship 's company and the valour shown by many others of coastal forces . |
| 29 | 14 , it is more reasonable to ascribe the latter pavement to an assistant of a more competent mosaicist 's workshop . |
| 30 | It became an extremely successful series , done with Professor Chris Kiernan , with a special agenda for mentally-handicapped children but appearing like a rather glossy children 's comic . |