Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the accused does not fall within s.2(1) , he may still be not dishonest for the purposes of the Act . |
| 2 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 3 | In this way it is possible for the divisions of a text using the drama base ( for example ) to consist of speeches and stage directions , while those of a text using the dictionary base will consist of lexical entries . |
| 4 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 5 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 6 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 7 | It may be possible for the arrangements for the funeral to be made direct with the crematorium or cemetery and minister of religion if desired . |
| 8 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 9 | This is a matter of considerable importance , since it is clearly desirable to know as much as possible about the conditions within the nuee ardente . |
| 10 | They want to find out as much as possible about the issues in a short time . |
| 11 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 12 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
| 13 | Passage is possible through the branches on the extreme left . |
| 14 | Personally , I am sorry for the upsets at the third Test in Manchester , but many of our players are very young and keen . |
| 15 | I FEEL sorry for the parents of the little boy who had his face ripped open by an alsatian . |
| 16 | She always felt sorry for the children at the Ragged School and there seemed to be hundreds and hundreds of them . |
| 17 | DARLINGTON chairman Dick Corden admitted he felt sorry for the fans after the disastrous 3–0 defeat at Torquay on Saturday . |
| 18 | We are grateful for the contributions of the German Government , the Japan Festival and Belfast 1991 . |
| 19 | He must only be alive between the covers of a book , and not anywhere else . |
| 20 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
| 21 | Flipping through the pages of a notebook is quicker than scrolling through a large spreadsheet and makes finding a location or cell far easier . |
| 22 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 23 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 24 | In terms of the age distribution , the elasticity of expected duration with respect to benefits is 0.18 for men under 20 , decreases with age to a value of 0.06 for men over 55 ; NNS found the effect to be largest for the teenagers with a value of 0.65 . |
| 25 | The Corporation expressed their satisfaction with the endowment and their conviction that it would be ample for the purposes of the School . |
| 26 | The growth of individualism has weakened the economic relationships between the generations to a far greater extent than that between the sexes within the family . |
| 27 | And how important is that for the birds of the area . |
| 28 | In the ‘ Oz ’ case , the Appeal Court ruled , in effect , that for the purposes of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 the word ‘ obscene ’ meant , and meant only , ‘ a tendency to deprave and corrupt . ’ |
| 29 | Thirdly , he may provide that for the purposes of the rent review under the headlease , the sublet property shall be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 30 | The functional association of two domains can then be interpreted through a hierarchical search extending down from the initial checking for the intersection of geometric domains , through an entity or edge condition check , into that for the relationships of the sub-surfaces contained within the spatial intersection . |