Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand will be an admirable opportunity for the fringe men to gain valuable international experience . |
| 2 | There are some striking parallels between the show trials of New York which have stemmed from the Boesky confessions and the Guinness case . |
| 3 | It took the form of an open space tapering from a broad base outside the abbey walls , northwards to a point at which he built St Peter 's church . |
| 4 | At a gallop , the amount of strain on a horse 's fore tendon is very near to its maximum capacity and any further loading leads to progressive damage to the tendon fibres resulting in extreme cases of tendon rupture . |
| 5 | Stirling had little patience with the planning staffs ' obsession with large set-piece armoured battles in the desert . |
| 6 | Kerrier District Council 's chief services officer , John Cadman , said the ‘ incredibly intense ’ storm lasted for six hours , causing extensive damage to the ground floors of businesses and homes . |
| 7 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 8 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |
| 9 | But this is not a general suppression of the immune system , more a specific interaction between the sex hormones and Candida . |
| 10 | Many individuals also displayed a strong attachment to the Prayer-Book ceremonies associated with rites of passage : baptism , churching , marriage , and the burial of the dead . |
| 11 | The Secretary-General is appointed by the Council by a two-thirds majority of the member states for a five-year term . |
| 12 | This misunderstanding , together with the antagonistic attitudes of the village practitioners towards BRAC 's message , suggest that BRAC had failed to do sufficient ground work before embarking upon the Oral Therapy Extension Programme . |
| 13 | The remuneration committee , consisting of all the independent directors , determines the employment terms and total remuneration of the executive directors and the amounts to be appropriated to employees through the profit sharing scheme . |
| 14 | After John 's death , Mary proved she had listened well by signing a profitable contract with the RKO studios |
| 15 | So it was not after all , the pressure from the farmers , or the cost , or the private discussions with the fertiliser manufacturers which had motivated the UK to drag its feet over nitrates , but a uniquely shrewd insight into the better interests of public health . |
| 16 | Under the system of research funding proposed in the White Paper the principle of plurality of research funding will be maintained , giving institutions access to block funds for research alongside targeted funding for specific projects from the research councils . |
| 17 | Later in the year , the Kingsley Dunham Centre was visited by the Council of NERC and by the members of the Associated Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) . |
| 18 | In the meantime , Member States are required to regard their economic policies as ‘ a matter of common concern ’ , and to obey ‘ broad guidelines of the economic policies of the Member States and the Community ’ . |
| 19 | The recognition helix of the helix-turn-helix motif of σ 70 is supposed to make specific contacts with the base pairs of the DNA in the major groove from positions -32 to -36 [ 36 , 37 ] . |
| 20 | There were strong intakes to the postgraduate programmes in Applied Social Research , Social Work and Housing Studies . |
| 21 | A young probationary teacher and a student-teacher were also available for some periods of " fringe help , mostly supervisory " ( op. " cit. : 5 ) , but played little part in the planning discussions . |
| 22 | Marx argued , quite correctly , that any broad change in the property relations of a society would involve sharp political , if not military , struggles and that the course of such struggles could not be legislated in advance according to the blueprints of some would-be social reformer . |
| 23 | As previously stated , the sole returns to the equity investors are dividend payments ( unless otherwise sold in the market ) , as these securities are assumed to have an infinite life and so have no maturity value . |
| 24 | This requires that Newco 's Articles impose the same terms of sale on non-employee shareholders of the scheme shares as they do on employee shareholders . |
| 25 | G & Weir , the heavy engineering firm of Cathcart , Glasgow were feeling the effects of the tough economic times of the Depression years . |
| 26 | An unpublished appendix to the report details allegations of the mass murder of Jews in the Baltic states , Byelorussia , and the Ukraine during the war by the Nazis and their collaborators . |
| 27 | But his finest hour in the Leone films is to be on television next week . |
| 28 | Biopsies were taken after 20 , 40 , and 75 minutes from the control persons and after 20 , 40 , and 60 minutes from the coeliac disease patients . |
| 29 | ‘ Now this is what 's called a tap spring , ’ and he lightly tapped his right foot along the floor boards and hopped neatly onto it , leaving his left leg raised slightly behind him . |
| 30 | This is the most controversial part of the assessment arrangements . |