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 . |