Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 2 | Jim Ogg , research and development officer with the Royal London Hospital care of the elderly department and Tower Hamlets SSD , has direct experience of the many ethical barriers researchers face when trying to obtain highly personal and sensitive information from those cared for about physical abuse . |
| 3 | Preston was one of the few male friends William had who did not teach at a university . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , one of the few qualified women physicians , replied to Maudsley on this point , acknowledging that pubescent girls were severely taxed , but arguing that the quiet routine of school afforded them adequate protection . |
| 5 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 6 | In my book , there is nothing this ex-president has done , or said , since leaving the White House which is worthy of attention — especially considering the many worthy things ex-presidents can do and say . |
| 7 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 8 | Spanish Masonry had its ultimate origins in the deistic humanitarianism of a few eighteenth-century esprits forts . |
| 9 | People living near the former English Martyrs School in Poplars Avenue , Orford , Warrington , say they desperately need a centre for the young , elderly and disabled of the area . |
| 10 | People living near a former young offenders institution are fighting plans to turn it into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 11 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 12 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 13 | She sipped the pink gin , and for a few delirious seconds Peter wondered if it had turned out well because she had met him instead . |
| 14 | Once more our rummage crews hit the jackpot with several newly arrived Klondykers in the anchorage and Reg Clarke , as a former uniformed Customs Officer , was able to re-live his earlier days as the duty free goods were ferried across in our motor boat . |
| 15 | With a few choice words Adam Burns had somehow managed to take all the fun away — he 'd tarnished her act , cheapened it even , by describing her as brash and brassy . |
| 16 | The theorists ' problems stem from the many different ways quarks have of getting from A to B. On the way , they can emit or absorb any number of gluons ( particles which carry the strong nuclear force ) , so the possibilities are endless . |
| 17 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 18 | In a few short sentences Quinn explained what he had done . |
| 19 | I realise exact settings would be out of the question , due to the many different effects units available , but a rough guide to setting the amount of distortion/EQ/chorus/delay etc. would surely be a step in the right direction . |
| 20 | The core distribution business , providing a kind of mail order service in components , put in a firm performance , thanks to improved margins on the many small orders people make in a recession , and reduced losses at a new German start-up . |
| 21 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 22 | Among the many comic performers Balcon developed for Gaumont-British , such performers as the histrionic Cicely Courtneidge and the dapper , completely unexportable , Jack Hulbert , none matched the success of musical performer Jessie Matthews . |
| 23 | UN chemical weapons inspectors who returned to Manama , Bahrain , following a week-long mission in Iraq said on Nov. 9 that Iraq had begun the incineration of its mustard gas arsenal at the former chemical weapons production complex at Muthanna , 130 km from Baghdad [ see also p. 39116 ] . |
| 24 | They say the centre , to be based at a former young offenders institution , will treat refugees as criminals . |
| 25 | Does the Minister agree that , as Northern Ireland has the fewest days lost through stoppages or industrial action and is governed by the same industrial relations legislation as Great Britain , it should be in a special position to attract inward investment ? |