Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union .
2 Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street .
3 Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features .
4 At a time when galleries are retrenching or closing , it is nice to be able to report this exciting European link forged by the energetic Hue-Williams , and to note the arrival of Marianne Holtermann , private dealer in modern and contemporary art , who has opened an office above Bolger Carpets at 31 New Bond Street .
5 This sort of task is very common in process control situations where the operator often makes a preliminary three-way decision corresponding to the worldwide system of red , amber and green traffic lights .
6 An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block .
7 Its unusual mahogany colouring and coat pattern , with a bold white finching along the back and underside and flashing white tail , suggest close links with the extinct Glamorgan ( see Welsh cattle ) and most would accept that the two in due course merged into a single breed .
8 What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes .
9 Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume .
10 The underlying cause for this decision was the awful damage caused by the savage winter of 1709 .
11 Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century .
12 You should certainly benefit from some kind of major career or professional change to come around the 4th and the 11th .
13 But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent .
14 The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education .
15 Vigilance is certainly required that funding allocated for the public good should not be siphoned off into private firms .
16 Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’
17 In the act of sliding a hand lovingly up over the satin-smooth skin stretched over the hard muscles of his upper arm , Maria halted as fear of the future caught at her and her fingers dug violently into his flesh .
18 Mr Tom King , Defence Secretary , said Mr Kinnock was guilty of a ‘ monstrous cover-up ’ over the true extent of the party 's links with CND and questioned his ability to deliver strong defence based on a nuclear deterrent .
19 So , in fact , had that decision gone to the main committee , or is it going , is it coming here now .
20 they are not referenced by an active DC for that user activated through the containing package
21 It turns out that all neurons of the primary visual cortex respond best to oriented bars or edges , though they still vary greatly among themselves as to the position their receptive field occupies in the visual field , as to the direction of preferred orientation , velocity of motion , size of bar and its polarity ( dark or light ) , and in other ways .
22 In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years .
23 Bits of the well-organised election looked like a utopian dream of the new world order : Indians and Canadians , Ghanaians and Australians , travelling the countryside with helicopter-borne polling stations , bringing democracy to grateful if puzzled peasants in distant Cambodian villages .
24 To enable an explicit comparison of the different conceptions of economic change held by the three theories , the substance of each is summarized in section 3.6 .
25 A retention is often used as a means of resolving a specific difficulty identified by the due diligence exercise ( see also Chapter 2 , page 51 ) .
26 Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field .
27 The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed .
28 Therefore , his main studies were amongst the great wealth of practical and devotional literature written by the earlier Puritan authors .
29 It is from the chaos of spontaneous analogizing that creativity breaks into the ordered by closed realm of analytic thinking .
30 Puzzle Wood is an area which has remained unaltered since it was transformed into tranquil woodland walks in the 1800's .
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