Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand will be an admirable opportunity for the fringe men to gain valuable international experience . |
| 2 | It took the form of an open space tapering from a broad base outside the abbey walls , northwards to a point at which he built St Peter 's church . |
| 3 | At a gallop , the amount of strain on a horse 's fore tendon is very near to its maximum capacity and any further loading leads to progressive damage to the tendon fibres resulting in extreme cases of tendon rupture . |
| 4 | Stirling had little patience with the planning staffs ' obsession with large set-piece armoured battles in the desert . |
| 5 | Kerrier District Council 's chief services officer , John Cadman , said the ‘ incredibly intense ’ storm lasted for six hours , causing extensive damage to the ground floors of businesses and homes . |
| 6 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 7 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |
| 8 | But this is not a general suppression of the immune system , more a specific interaction between the sex hormones and Candida . |
| 9 | Many individuals also displayed a strong attachment to the Prayer-Book ceremonies associated with rites of passage : baptism , churching , marriage , and the burial of the dead . |
| 10 | The Secretary-General is appointed by the Council by a two-thirds majority of the member states for a five-year term . |
| 11 | The remuneration committee , consisting of all the independent directors , determines the employment terms and total remuneration of the executive directors and the amounts to be appropriated to employees through the profit sharing scheme . |
| 12 | After John 's death , Mary proved she had listened well by signing a profitable contract with the RKO studios |
| 13 | Later in the year , the Kingsley Dunham Centre was visited by the Council of NERC and by the members of the Associated Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) . |
| 14 | A young probationary teacher and a student-teacher were also available for some periods of " fringe help , mostly supervisory " ( op. " cit. : 5 ) , but played little part in the planning discussions . |
| 15 | Marx argued , quite correctly , that any broad change in the property relations of a society would involve sharp political , if not military , struggles and that the course of such struggles could not be legislated in advance according to the blueprints of some would-be social reformer . |
| 16 | An unpublished appendix to the report details allegations of the mass murder of Jews in the Baltic states , Byelorussia , and the Ukraine during the war by the Nazis and their collaborators . |
| 17 | But his finest hour in the Leone films is to be on television next week . |
| 18 | ‘ Now this is what 's called a tap spring , ’ and he lightly tapped his right foot along the floor boards and hopped neatly onto it , leaving his left leg raised slightly behind him . |
| 19 | This is the most controversial part of the assessment arrangements . |
| 20 | The Department of Agriculture said it had no comment to make because the closure was a private decision by the abattoir owners . |
| 21 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of part of the Consignment , to the proportion of the sum ascertained in accordance with ( 1 ) ( a ) of this Condition which the actual value of that part of the Consignment bears to the actual value of the whole of the Consignment . |
| 22 | After the Court was absorbed in the Exchequer in 1554 , that part of the Crown revenues was managed by ‘ Surveyors-General of Woods , Forests , Parks and Chases ’ , responsible to the Exchequer . |
| 23 | In Scotland the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 had already created integrated ‘ social work depart ments ’ , in that case including the probation officers , who remained in a separate service independent of local government in England and Wales . |
| 24 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 25 | Furthermore , we can imagine a hypothetical case ‘ where the economic existence of the small-holding peasants is not reflected by Bonapartism . ’ |
| 26 | We are told that ‘ the economic existence of the small-holding peasants is reflected , on the political level , by the ‘ pertinent effects ’ constituted by the particular form of state of Bonapartism ’ . |
| 27 | It would have guaranteed a complete change in the way things were run at Westminster . |
| 28 | Despite strong support from the Government benches for Mr Lamont 's proposals , Mr Hughes said : ‘ The Chancellor has not met the nation 's needs and he should go without further delay before he does more damage . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When the firms were grouped according to similarity of objectives and techniques of production , and classified in order of the technical complexity of the production systems , each production system was found to be associated with a characteristic pattern of organisation . |
| 30 | The highlights for me were the climax of Britannia 's stately progress through the Fleet lines and my own personal visit to the reception for Commanding Officers on board Britannia during the evening . |