Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although born in South Africa , Holmes à Court became one of several Australian multi-million dollar entrepreneurs who profited from stock market dealing under the climate of laissez faire capitalism created during the 1980s by the successive governments of the Australian Labor Party . |
| 2 | Each repressor binds with its double-stranded antiparallel β -ribbon inserted into the major groove of the DNA ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 3 | Part B approved just over US$987,317,000 for 1990 ( half the biennium total less a US$16,432,600 revision made in the 1988-89 appropriations by Resolution 44/193 ) . |
| 4 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 5 | This result is in general agreement with the peak generation estimate of 1.2% reflectance determined from the rapid pyrolysis data published for a German coal by Jüntgen and Klein ( 1975 ) ( Figs. 12 and 13 ) . |
| 6 | And in nineteen twenty er strike going at the present day there was what we called the soup kitchens . |
| 7 | The pre-programmed ‘ processor ’ IC1 contains all the active circuitry with a low cost 4MHz resonator driven by an internal oscillator providing the timing . |
| 8 | Members will see at paragraph eight , how the dep er office compares with the national average , we are well , well below that , and I think this is a very good service indeed er , county council , which is not just value for money , that that 's too glib , but actually provides an excellent service , with within those limited constraints . |
| 9 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 10 | Pa 's response comes in the flat voice I know , and fear , ‘ Talk properly , James . |
| 11 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 12 | Moscovici 's defence refers to the destructive power of operational definitions to restrict intellectual advance . |
| 13 | Nead 's text takes in the conventional notions of feminine beauty , pornography and the tabloid press , the fine line between sexuality and the obscene and the recent reclamation of the nude by female artists . |
| 14 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |
| 15 | As Seawitch rolled heavily Polly 's foot slipped on the wet deck and she stumbled backwards , pulling Nathan with her . |
| 16 | Their skinhead followers are horrid but , in the French elections , the majority of 18-24 year olds voted Green , and Le Pen 's support came from an older and jobless proletariat — the 10 per cent of Europe 's have-nothings for whom no mainstream party offers more than kind words and strict membership of the European Monetary System . |
| 17 | Here we have a repetition of the childhood in which the parent 's weakness contributed to the unconscious need for punishment . |
| 18 | But the whole point of the question is whether Grant 's case applies to a misdirected letter of acceptance . |
| 19 | In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne . |
| 20 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 21 | This is arguably the fundamental point made by a famous set of attempted proofs of God 's existence associated with the medieval theologian , Aquinas . |
| 22 | Because Set 's existence ended in a brief moment of agony , as he took the full force of Angel One 's flying hip-kick on his open upper jaw . |
| 23 | Flack 's skin glistened in the white , gritty light , his thin face tight with fatigue . |
| 24 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 25 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 26 | Idi Lala , leader of the exiled MCLN , described the RDC 's decision to stick to a one-party system as " thoughtless and dangerous " , because it ignored recurrent social unrest and mass support for a multiparty system . |
| 27 | Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture . |
| 28 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 29 | Marxism 's inability to deal with the political interventions of other oppositional groups has meant that its History can no longer claim to subsume all processes of change . |
| 30 | It should only aim to record that which is necessary for accurate reporting of a pupil 's progress according to the agreed reporting format of the school as a whole . |