Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The usual strategy in real irreversible searches is the following : Choose some function f of the operators of the search task . |
| 32 | Shamir 's decision was attributed partly to a personal antipathy and partly to the intention of eclipsing the less hardline Foreign Ministry officials from the negotiations . |
| 33 | Kylie was up at 5am to begin her 12 hour day on the Neighbours set while Dannii had her own demanding schedule — combining school studies with her own job on a prime time variety show . |
| 34 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 35 | In addition , there are 140 computer terminals throughout the Departments of the House which are available to a wide range of staff users . |
| 36 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 37 | Most of my companions on this field trip to the mines are from the Third World . |
| 38 | Whereas the emphasis in the first part of the research will be on the interaction between the construction of ideas about marriage and the ideologies and development of the marital agencies , the focus of the second part will narrow into a detailed case study of the activities and development of one organisation , the National Marriage Guidance Council . |
| 39 | She says some rude words about the English , some kind ones about the Scots , then the phone bleeps , to call her away . |
| 40 | I think that the hon. Gentleman is referring to certain press reports that appeared last week which referred to an alleged internal British Rail document about the implications of privatisation for InterCity . |
| 41 | ‘ In our small lecture room , two schools liaison officers from British Rail talk to the children and stress the dangers of playing anywhere near railway lines , ’ said Chris . |
| 42 | Finally , paint the top attachment rope on the balloons with silver food colouring , and the little burner . |
| 43 | Then I leaned over the back of the truck , just avoiding a long rasping glissando from Martin 's slide , and grabbed the would-be mace maniac by the shoulders of her anorak . |
| 44 | Side chains Lys23 and Thr25 on the ribbon surface of each subunit make direct hydrogen bonds to the edges of base pairs ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) , making the major contribution to sequence specificity in the complex . |
| 45 | I do not recall much of the plot but all through childhood and beyond I have remained haunted by vivid remembered images : little leprechauns in mad underground celebration dancing round pots of gold , leaping over plundered treasures ; Michael and Katy skipping hand in hand through the fields ; the jaunty , laughing , Guinness swilling , devil may care Darby with his pub stories , his sideways philosophy and his battles of wit with the wily King Brian of the leprechauns ; but mainly , and most frighteningly , the dreaded death coach with its headless coachman come to call Darby 's soul on the one way trip to hell . |
| 46 | As nationalised suppliers , the electricity boards in the past were able to limit their liability for negligence to a trivial sum , but now , Tribick for one wants ‘ them to accept normal commercial negligence clauses in the contracts ’ . |
| 47 | After many weeks of trying to persuade puzzled neighbours to ‘ stop the machines ’ , one night , in desperation , she hurled empty milk bottles through the windows of the terraced houses on either side . |
| 48 | For instance , in a study of 25 retinopathy patients — the marker most commonly used for microvascular disease — platelets exhibited enhanced platelet aggregation to the agonists adrenaline and arachidonic acid but not to ADP ( Creter et al , 1978 ) . |
| 49 | Thessy and I would have a chance to strengthen the rigging during our two-week trial period with the twins , but some jobs simply could not be done at sea . |
| 50 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 51 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 52 | The degree of disturbance and in some cases alteration of the rocks at outcrop in Cornwall , Devon and South Wales is not encouraging . |
| 53 | The project is based on a two year longitudinal case study of the policies of one particular UDC , the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation ( CBDC ) . |
| 54 | The National Union of Teachers fears that , because of its divisive potential , opting out will considerably weaken the educational system : ‘ What is proposed is really a means of reintroducing in a covert manner an elitist and centrally controlled system of direct grant schools on the lines of the grammar schools under the guise of increasing parental choice ’ . |
| 55 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 56 | The document containing the advice must contain a Rule 19.2 responsibility statement by the directors . |
| 57 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 58 | This was the weekly practice night for the bell-ringers at All Saints Church , High Wycombe , and Patricia Newton 's team was ringing away for all it was worth . |
| 59 | And the latter enterprises ( financial institutions ) have drawn the funds to acquire this equity stake from the savings of the personal sector , that is mainly wage and salary-earning employees . |
| 60 | Last year , Inland Revenue investigations into the affairs of 1.54pc of the nation 's farmers is said to have produced an additional £18m tax revenue . |