Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 2 | And there were strange parallels in the patterns of their childhood . |
| 3 | She entered into technical discussions with the shopkeepers in a way totally beyond the capacity of Owen and Mahmoud , explaining that while she normally wore only French perfume , she was considering experimenting with a combination of French and Arab scents : ‘ une vraie Cairéenne , n'est ce pas ? ’ |
| 4 | There are also conflicting accounts of the terms of the audit . |
| 5 | Social Policy 1 evaluates different explanations of the growth of the welfare state and conflicting accounts of the ways in which it functions , and then examines issues and arguments which arise in two areas in which controversy is rife ; namely poverty and disease . |
| 6 | Whereas the peasants continued to be edified through oral accounts of the lives of the Saints and of holy pilgrims , and occasionally learnt to read the alphabet through the Psalter , the upper classes had paid lip-service to the state religion whilst immersing themselves in rationalist Western thought . |
| 7 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 8 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 9 | Although doubt has been cast on that finding by the results of the national survey ( see Parker 1982 : 90 ) , McGoldrick and Cooper 's research was conducted after the national survey and it has helped to encourage a view that attitudes towards early retirement are changing significantly and that it is being regarded more and more favourably by older workers ( see for example , House of Commons Select Committee on Social Services 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Will the Prime Minister therefore tell us what specific proposals he has made for supporting economic projects in the republics of the former Soviet Union , particularly in the distribution industries , which are obviously of basic importance to economic growth and to the development of markets ? |
| 11 | Here the money was paid by a third person , and I have no doubt that , upon the acceptance of that money by the plaintiffs with full knowledge of the terms on which it was offered , the debt was absolutely extinguished . |
| 12 | Think of that most perfect of all archaeological records — the city of Pompeii — where we have everything preserved from the statue in the elegant garden to the beans in the cooking pot , from the political graffiti on the walls to the obscene paintings in the brothel . |
| 13 | The meeting established a broad framework for the negotiations at the parallel intergovernmental conferences on political union and on economic and monetary union , which the Council formally opened in Rome on Dec. 15 . |
| 14 | The interest is , however , taken into account when determining liability at rates in excess of the basic rate ; also when calculating total income for the purposes of the special allowance for the elderly ( see below ) . |
| 15 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 16 | The Party has long been dominated by members of the Sunni Arab minority , who have shown little patience with the Kurds of the north or the Shiite Arabs of the south . |
| 17 | The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ . |
| 18 | As a result of this special interest he made a topographical index to the drawings in the Soane Museum . |
| 19 | Now that we have a little experience in the joys of simple kite flying , it 's time to look deeper into the whole subject and to understand more about those ‘ Modern Materials ’ which have emerged since the 1970s . |
| 20 | Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , will offer reassurances on the changes to the National Health Service , with a strong defence of the policies for allowing hospitals to opt out , establishing an internal market and giving GPs practice budgets . |
| 21 | He launched a strong defence of the achievements of the past 13 years of Conservative rule and warned voters not to ‘ fall in Labour 's trap ’ and ‘ sleepwalk ’ into the election . |
| 22 | This enhanced sense may derive from the deft , alert response of the musicians to David Lloyd-Jones 's direction , and certainly owes much to the magic of Jack Gibbons 's playing , which becomes the focal point of this performance . |
| 23 | Patriotism and religion combined in what must surely be one of the most emotional reactions of the Greeks to the impact of an alien society . |
| 24 | He was assistant clerk of the Parliaments in the Convention of 1660 , a witness against the regicides , and briefly employed under the navy commissioners . |
| 25 | Other Latin American presidents have been able to bring in economic change without the encumbrances of democratic politics . |
| 26 | It is in this sense that Marx distinguished , initially in his ‘ Contribution to a Critique of Hegel 's Philosophy of Right ’ ( 1844 ) , between ‘ a partial , merely political revolution which leaves the pillars of the building standing ’ , and a social revolution ; thereby changing the whole concept of revolution , as Max Adler ( 1928 ) later argued , ‘ from the merely political idea of the transformation of the state , into the social concept of an economic change in the bases of society ’ . |
| 27 | There is a clear excess over expectation of cyanogenic forms in the areas of high and very high mollusc density and of acyanogenic forms in the areas of very low mollusc density . |
| 28 | This is a very attractive Queen Anne building , situated in a quiet private lane on the outskirts of the pretty village of Pulborough . |
| 29 | There was a strong sweet earthy smell from the slopes of soil around its edges . |
| 30 | To be fully implemented the agreement required confirmation by a two-thirds majority in the Senates of both the USA and the Philippines . |