Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In Chapter 1 it was suggested that Mean Length of Utterance ( MLU ) measured in morphemes provides a useful summary of the normal child 's mastery of grammatical structure . |
2 | As a defence to exceeding the normal drivers ' hours of work , it was argued successfully , before the Kent Justices sitting at Sandwich , that these hours had to be departed from having regard to the care and comfort of the passengers . |
3 | The growing number of learned topographies produced by the Georgian gentry 's taste for travel rarely had much praise for the Sussex roads , however beautiful they found its landscape . |
4 | In a previous BBC serial about the moral bankruptcy and satanic drabness of a fictional new town , the polite credits ' acknowledgment to the real modern conurbation which had admitted the cameras had an inadvertent satirical ring . |
5 | While most obviously a reaction to the coalescence of the right , it was also a reaction against the establishment in north Korea on 14 February of the Interim People 's Committee under the leadership of Kim Il Sung . |
6 | He was a founder member of the Junior Ministers ' Convention in 1888 . |
7 | He streaked the junior men 's event with a distance of 57.18 metres and showed his worth by finishing third to Great Britain 's Paul Head in the senior men 's section , making 52.54 with the heavier hammer . |
8 | Long jumper Anthony Mason , of Ipswich Harriers , cleared seven metres for the first time in his career to smash the junior men 's record by 34 centimetres , and 16-year-old Keith Davis shaved a tenth of a second off the under-17 400 metres record with a time of 52.0 seconds . |
9 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
10 | Its slight irregularity could be either intentional or an accident due to the hard-edged woman 's discomfort with the beads of meaning . |
11 | The lazy man 's guide to word-processing |
12 | But in reality there is little or no training for the assistant teacher 's role in school management . |
13 | Former England coach Steve Harrison is back at Crystal Palace after turning down the assistant manager 's job at Scottish Premier Division St Johnstone . |
14 | In 1894 Chinese troops were sent to Korea in response to the Korean king 's request for help against domestic rebellion led by the powerful Tonghak religious sect . |
15 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
16 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
17 | He referred to the European Commissioner 's comments on the environmental assessment . |
18 | The European champions ' chances of achieving such an extravagant result are dimmed by the absences of Miodrag Belodedic , Ilja Najdoski , Goran Vasijevic and Dejan Savicevic — all banned . |
19 | There the European Court , consistently with the opinion of the Advocate General ( see p. 663 ) , declined to regulate the manner in which the national court should decide whether to grant interim relief following upon the European Court 's ruling on the main question concerned with the power of the national court to grant relief in the circumstances of the case . |
20 | He is also expected to confirm Mr Hurd 's decision to ignore the European Court 's ruling against seven-day detentions under the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
21 | Slim victory for school over boy 's beating Allan McLean on the impact of the European court 's decision on corporal punishment |
22 | However , a number of existing treaty provisions only allow the Community to act where it is ‘ necessary ’ , notably Article 235 , and it is instructive to note the European Court 's attitude to these . |
23 | It is by now quite well known ( certainly it will have come to the attention of those who attended the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 ) that the European Court 's method of interpreting Community legal texts is primarily teleological , that is to say the interpretation of a provision on the basis of its object and purpose . |
24 | This was the European Court 's view of the requirement of the West German Insurance Supervision Law to the effect that foreign insurance undertakings must set up an establishment in West Germany and ‘ keep available there all the commercial documents relating to that establishment ’ , for which separate accounts must be kept . |
25 | At the next European Council these draft texts should be finalized according to the guidelines worked out there and in keeping with the European Council 's conclusions of Oct. 27-28 , 1990 , recalling the UK reserve attached thereto [ when the Eleven agreed on January 1994 as the starting date for " stage two " of EMU — see p. 37783 ] . |
26 | The objectives of the new agency would be to assist the Community and the Member States to achieve the goals set out in the Treaty of Rome and in successive environmental action programmes ; it must also , however , be seen in the context of the European Council 's adoption on 2 December 1988 of the Rhodes Declaration on the Environment and the environment chapter in the Single European Act which comes into effect in 1992 . |
27 | The European Parliament on Sept. 12 , in a resolution stating that only a diplomatic solution could settle the crisis ( passed by 300 to 70 with 19 abstentions ) , called on Italy as current holder of the presidency of the European Communities ' Council of Ministers to convene a special EC summit to find such a solution . |
28 | He jointly led the European Tour 's Greens in Regulation statistics that year , but his putting was so horrendous that he was almost totally incapable of converting the countless birdie opportunities set up with excellent tee-to-green play . |
29 | British Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher was among four members of the European Tour 's Board of Directors who heard the appeal at Wentworth , and decided the original punishment was too severe . |
30 | Hence the European Parliament 's Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens ' Rights proposed a comprehensive report on codification in May 1989 , and in 1991 its chairman Graf von Stauffenberg again stressed ‘ the pressing need for proper codification and simplification , and hence greater transparency , of Community law ’ . |