Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | As a result of this special interest he made a topographical index to the drawings in the Soane Museum . |
| 5 | He was assistant clerk of the Parliaments in the Convention of 1660 , a witness against the regicides , and briefly employed under the navy commissioners . |
| 6 | Now it 's not fair on those others that are in the other room doing their exams there , and they 're just making all that noise from the typewriters in the other room . |
| 7 | Reflector boards shone light up into the subjects ' faces to refine the modelling ( reflections give a certain hooded look to the eyes in the portrait here ) . |
| 8 | In regional courts like the Councils in the North and the Marches of Wales , bishops might be appointed to the presidency and other clerics could sit upon the bench , but the offices of profit went to laymen . |
| 9 | One possible advantage of the checks in Schantz 's pianos is that each check can be adjusted individually . |
| 10 | Prim suits for the races in sober colours open to reveal linings and blouses in vivid Indian bright silks ; glacial evening gowns in iced blues , apricots and silver epitomise restrained good taste . |
| 11 | ‘ Goodness of fit ’ is measured by matching the spectral characteristics of each segment to the templates in the graph , and at each point marking the template with the highest acoustic match probability . |
| 12 | You 'll find a technical description of the cartridges in the file , but they seem to be quite ordinary army ammunition . " |
| 13 | In the early part of the year the Bank was honoured as the winner of the category for Outstanding support of the Arts in the Scottish Awards for Business Sponsorship of the Arts . |
| 14 | While the tribute often remained unpaid , as in the case of Sicily , where an annual payment of 30,000 tarims ( about £100,000 ) had been agreed on in Frederick 's minority , it provided a source of income which the political activities of the popes in their dealings with the separate kingdoms suggest was definitely worthwhile . |
| 15 | Douglas Reed , for example , who resigned as Central European Correspondent of The Times in 1938 over his newspaper 's support for appeasement politics , and whose background and life history read like the classic facsimile of the alleged fascist , proved in practice to be a crusading anti-fascist . |
| 16 | The outgoing President , Alan García Pérez , described the raid as " the greatest blow against the guerillas in 10 years " . |
| 17 | The most commonly used nozzles in the recipes in this book are a fine writing ( No.1 ) , a medium writing ( No.2 ) , a small star ( No.5 ) , a larger star ( No.11 or 12 ) , and a basket-weave ( No.22 or 48 ) Generally , the smaller the number the finer the nozzle — the No.1 nozzle is used for lettering . |
| 18 | For some time a rumour had persisted that Horemheb , in his moves to clear up the corruption which had flourished like rampant weed during the years in which the city had fallen into neglect , had more than once attempted to close it ; but that the interests which protected it were still too powerful for him to dispense with . |
| 19 | Although the Revolutionary Command Council consisted exclusively of military men it was not devoted solely to military interests : Jallud , for example , was said to have strong support among the technocrats in the petroleum and development departments . |
| 20 | The need to halt Pakistani aid to the insurgents in Afghanistan indicated the regional dimension to any neutralisation of this country . |
| 21 | After the almost total defeat of the Italians in North Africa by General O'Connor in January 1941 , the Germans had decided to send an Afrika Korps to bolster their allies . |
| 22 | The final document reaffirmed the NAM 's intention to remain " an independent political force despite the changes in the world " , but noted that there was an " urgent need to accord high priority to the issues of development and equitable international economic relations " . |
| 23 | At that time , Punch ( 1979 ) pointed out ( in a comparison of facilities in Britain and Holland ) that research into the police in Britain is not easy and |
| 24 | Posidonius enjoyed describing those strictly hierarchical banquets of the Celts in which people challenged each other to mortal duels on fine points of honour , such as the best piece of meat . |
| 25 | It is also possible to make more subtle combinations of the oscillations in the x and y directions in which the components are " out of phase " , their crests occurring at different instants . |
| 26 | Present guidelines are that , if goods or services covered by an agreement or arrangement or other goods and services perceived by consumers as equivalent do not represent more than 5 per cent of the total market in an area of the EC affected by the agreement and the aggregate turnover of the participants in the respective group does not exceed 200 million ecu ( £130 million ) , EC competition rules will not apply . |
| 27 | There is surprisingly little research on the differences in work performance which are traceable to sex differences , and the situation is complicated in many countries by the inclusion of sex as one of the variables where discrimination is legally inadmissible . |
| 28 | Stravinsky used similar ideas in his score for Petrushka and again provided an underlying rhythmic pulse to represent the incessant throb of the engines in the fairground and the general noise of the excited crowd . |
| 29 | Despite the growing turmoil in the fragments of interviews reported , they conclude that he retained complete command of the conventions in the use of such terms . |
| 30 | The embittered schism of the Donatists in North Africa from 311 onwards brought him sharp disappointment . |