Example sentences of "[adv] of [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 2 | It is the originator of the Dutch Belted in the USA ( which is possibly more typical of the original breed ) and perhaps of the old sheeted cattle of the Broadlands estate in England , now extinct . |
| 3 | Eric Skoglund , the environmental officer on the UN-sponsored Mekong Committee , has resigned in protest at the committee 's determination to go ahead with the building of a huge dam on the Thai-Laotian border " regardless of the potential environmental costs " . |
| 4 | The allies should not welcome this , though the argument for fighting on regardless of the latest Soviet efforts at peacemaking was neither bloodthirsty nor trivial . |
| 5 | Japanese banks , alone of the big international banks , rely on share portfolios for part of their capital . |
| 6 | I am a friend of the religious groups , but only of the revolutionary religious groups ! |
| 7 | Within crofting , and this is important , I am speaking only of the small part-time crofts , on poor land , found in Lewis and Harris and along parts of the western mainland coast . |
| 8 | In a vote of confidence on 28 March about the government 's handling of the industrial crisis , the Liberals , the Scottish Nationalists , and most of the Ulster MPs voted with the Conservatives , while the government enlisted the support only of the 3 Welsh Nationalists , 2 Scottish Labour , and 2 Ulstermen . |
| 9 | ‘ It is , ma foi , a matter only of the little grey cells , m'sieur ’ , he was saying . |
| 10 | She had to think only of the next few hours . |
| 11 | In which parts of the coalfield are most of the old shallow pits which have been closed ? |
| 12 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 13 | , Jonas ( c. 1642–1710 ) , Anglican divine and critic of the philosopher John Locke [ q.v. ] , was born about 1642 , the son of Jonas Proost , pastor successively of the Dutch Calvinist congregations in Colchester and London . |
| 14 | Around 38 per cent of seats nationwide went to independent candidates , while the Polish Peasants ' Party performed best of the national political parties , with around 6.5 per cent of seats . |
| 15 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 16 | Others , for example the cormorants , gulls and terns , are more coast-bound , feeding offshore in winter but mainly in shallow coastal waters in summer ; they breed in smaller colonies , usually of a few dozen pairs close to good feeding grounds . |
| 17 | ‘ Weel you leetle girls come here every day and buy my feesh ? ’ he asked hopefully of the two earnest children , one big , one small , who stood watching his every move . |
| 18 | Often there has been no concern at all that perhaps more can be expected educationally of the new Agreed Syllabuses . |
| 19 | The reproduction of an historic statue of the Mother of God in the Cathedral , demonstrates a sensitivity to the vibrant traditions of the past , drawing on them so as to enrich ones own faith not only of God 's choice of Our Lady and her example , but also of the many wonderful traditions in the diocese which provides continuity , constantly enriching the present . |
| 20 | I think people in the British churches , and probably outside them , twenty or thirty years ago lived in a rather secure world and they understood that God was on the whole on the side of the British Empire and the missionaries as they went out to civilize other places , and that was true also of the other European forms of God . |
| 21 | Classification must be a function not only of the situation but also of the existing internalised classes and their relative accessibility . |
| 22 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 23 | They included the delivering up of the two named individuals for trial , recognition of responsibility for acts , willingness to pay compensation , the disclosure of information relating to the IRA and renunciation of terrorism . |
| 24 | A paradigm is made up of the general theoretical assumptions and laws and techniques for their application that the members of a particular scientific community adopt . |
| 25 | The Service is made up of the Latin American sections of the international Catholic organisations for radio and television ( UNDA ) , press ( UCLAP ) and audio visuals ( OCIC ) . |
| 26 | To have more suggests a distinct drying up of the ol' creative gastrics . |
| 27 | Eight years later these considerations did not apparently deter Lord Hailsham ( then Lord Chancellor ) from supporting the setting up of the National Industrial Relations Court ( NIRC ) . |
| 28 | The mean follow up of the 73 living patients was six years ( range 4–12 ) . |
| 29 | In April it called for a three-tier market , including an international equity market made up of the top 350 companies , a national market for most of the remaining companies listed on the Official List and the USM , and an enterprise market with minimum requirements for those companies not on the Official List , the intention being that those companies in the enterprise market should comprise higher risk operations . |
| 30 | During 1949 as the first stage of the tram scrapping programme was drawing near , V. J. Matterface , formerly of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and now Tramways Engineer to Leeds City Transport , was able to persuade his new masters that the modern Feltham cars might be a good buy when London Transport had finished with them . |