Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case against the logging companies was brought by the Nucleus for Indigenous Rights , on behalf of a coalition of some 70 Brazilian citizens ' groups waging a campaign against the logging of mahogany . |
| 2 | First , of the top 12 international firms ' world audit market share , the Big Six now accounted for 87.7% and their share was growing . |
| 3 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |
| 4 | And the headlines this lunchtime it 's confirmed that Calverton Colliery in Nottinghamshire is to go into the review procedure putting another six hundred miners ' jobs at risk . |
| 5 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |
| 6 | Hungary appeared to take a step in the right direction when its rulers voted to transmute the old Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party into a new , reformist-led Socialist Party — and in effect divorced the party from the state . |
| 7 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 8 | There 's some lovely little girls ' coats , but I thought like let , long ones , I thought they 'll probably be alright for in her pram |
| 9 | Education — School — Parental preference — Duty to comply — Over-subscribed Roman Catholic girls ' school — Admission policy giving priority to Roman Catholic and other Christians — Hindu and Muslim applicants not fulfilling admission criteria — Refusal of admission by governors — Appeal committee dismissing appeal — Whether school bound by parental preference — Whether appeal committee 's decision correct in law — Education Act 1980 ( c. 20 ) , s. 6(3) ( a ) ( as amended by Education Reform Act 1988 ( c. 40 ) , s. 30 ) |
| 10 | 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas . |
| 11 | The conflict in Cambodia , and in particular the US policy change , inevitably dominated the 23rd annual ASEAN Foreign Ministers ' meeting on July 24-25 in Indonesia [ see p. 37613 ] . |
| 12 | Clap et al ( 1987 ) in a study of 10 fit recreational runners ' responses to jogging before and during pregnancy observed an overall decrease in exercise intensity and performance among pregnant athletes . |
| 13 | SOME 180 children from eleven schools took part in the annual large primary schools ' netball rally at Eggar 's School , Alton on Saturday . |
| 14 | Among the remaining 13 private members ' bills , whose chances are far more dependent on the amount of controversy they attract , are measures to compensate British nuclear test victims , abolish poll tax warrant sales in Scotland , and lay down car telephones standards . |
| 15 | Do you remember the nineteen twenty six miners ' strike ? |
| 16 | A voluntary aided Roman Catholic comprehensive girls ' school adopted an admission policy in which the categories for admission were , in order of priority , baptised Roman Catholics , children of baptised Roman Catholics , practising Christians and other Christians , in the latter two cases giving priority to those with sisters at the school . |
| 17 | These were appeals by the applicants , Abdul Malik Choudhury and Nitya Ranjan Purkayastha , by leave of the Court of Appeal , from an order dated 6 November 1991 of that court ( Balcombe , Taylor and McCowan L.JJ. ) ( 1991 ) 90 L.G.R. 103 , allowing appeals by the respondents , The Bishop Challoner Roman Catholic Comprehensive Girls ' School ( ‘ the school ’ ) and the appeal committee of the school , against orders dated 31 July 1991 of Simon Brown J. |
| 18 | In the present case , the voluntary aided school in question , The Bishop Challoner Roman Catholic Comprehensive Girls ' School in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , adopted the following admission policy : |
| 19 | Edward , who had seen both of these creatures on the television screen , pictured the tiny animals , with their sad wise old men 's faces framed by silky manes , their long , long tails , their agility . |
| 20 | You are now in an unusually powerful position : you have a strong , professional team behind you , and a good few thousand pounds ' worth of buying power in your pocket . |
| 21 | The circuit 's owners , the exclusive British Racing Drivers ' Club , whose members include Nigel Mansell , Stirling Moss , James Hunt and Jackie Stewart , admit that they need to spend £15-20 million on the track if it is to continue as home of the British Grand Prix . |
| 22 | When it was time to go home again , at the hospital gates the friendly porter was on duty , sitting inside the cosy little wooden porters ' hut . |
| 23 | All these two days ' holiday and this , you 've had Christmas . |
| 24 | Scientific calorie charts , on which all those popular women 's magazine calorie charts are based , speak of ‘ available carbohydrate calories ’ . |
| 25 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 26 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 27 | In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 28 | Guerra announced his decision unexpectedly at a regional congress of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in Cáceres ( Extremadura ) ; he retained the post of PSOE deputy secretary-general . |
| 29 | In elections on May 26 for municipal administrations and for 13 of Spain 's 17 regional governments the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) slightly increased its overall support but lost control of several large cities . |
| 30 | Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization . |