Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 3 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
| 4 | At a time when galleries are retrenching or closing , it is nice to be able to report this exciting European link forged by the energetic Hue-Williams , and to note the arrival of Marianne Holtermann , private dealer in modern and contemporary art , who has opened an office above Bolger Carpets at 31 New Bond Street . |
| 5 | This sort of task is very common in process control situations where the operator often makes a preliminary three-way decision corresponding to the worldwide system of red , amber and green traffic lights . |
| 6 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 7 | Its unusual mahogany colouring and coat pattern , with a bold white finching along the back and underside and flashing white tail , suggest close links with the extinct Glamorgan ( see Welsh cattle ) and most would accept that the two in due course merged into a single breed . |
| 8 | What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes . |
| 9 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 10 | Under managed floating , the domestic monetary authorities intervene in the foreign exchange markets to smooth out excessive short-term fluctuations in the exchange rate . |
| 11 | The underlying cause for this decision was the awful damage caused by the savage winter of 1709 . |
| 12 | Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century . |
| 13 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 14 | You should certainly benefit from some kind of major career or professional change to come around the 4th and the 11th . |
| 15 | But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent . |
| 16 | The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education . |
| 17 | Vigilance is certainly required that funding allocated for the public good should not be siphoned off into private firms . |
| 18 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 19 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 20 | The mode and relations of production in an economy dominated by a smallholding peasantry strengthen the ability of the bureaucracy to control without strengthening the ability of other political institutions to intervene in a representative capacity . |
| 21 | However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain . |
| 22 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 23 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 24 | Over 25% of the 109 projects approved by the Central Committee for implementation in 1992 involve training of some kind . |
| 25 | Joseph Beran ( right ) , former Archbishop of Prague , was one of the eight prisoners featured in the original Observer article . |
| 26 | Eight clubs tied to an electronic stadium advertising deal stymied Bass and the rump of 14 are concerned at the influence of an elite eight . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’ |
| 28 | Classic bathrooms inspired by the great ages of design . |
| 29 | In the act of sliding a hand lovingly up over the satin-smooth skin stretched over the hard muscles of his upper arm , Maria halted as fear of the future caught at her and her fingers dug violently into his flesh . |
| 30 | Mr Tom King , Defence Secretary , said Mr Kinnock was guilty of a ‘ monstrous cover-up ’ over the true extent of the party 's links with CND and questioned his ability to deliver strong defence based on a nuclear deterrent . |