Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
| 2 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 3 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 4 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | A ball is deemed to be in a lateral water hazard if it lies between the parallel red stakes marking the boundary of the lateral water hazard , whether or not the ball lies in the water or on the surrounding bank . |
| 6 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 7 | As with most legislation , however , economics lies beneath the new Indian Arts and Crafts Law . |
| 8 | The counselling process starts with the troubled emotional lives of individuals , whose feelings of worthlessness , inadequacy , fear or vulnerability have affected their lives in serious and possibly damaging ways , and whose relationships with other important people have become difficult , unbearable or have broken down . |
| 9 | We feel that the main contribution of this volume to existing debate lies in the actual ethnographic presentations of peaceful societies , with the overall interpretation being explications on indigenous conceptions of human nature and categories of emotions . |
| 10 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 11 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 12 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 13 | In the case of Skelton , it has in the past ten years experienced significant residential development . |
| 14 | Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades . |
| 15 | Pressure from the people , and from the French government , has in the past few weeks nudged some neighbouring West African dictatorships the same way . |
| 16 | Despite a worldwide decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years , those of Finnish men remain roughly twice those of men in other countries , according to Finnish research . |
| 17 | But McGilligan , who has made more than his fair share of sacrifices in a long and distinguished career in the Derry jersey , frowns on the impinging mercenary attitudes . |
| 18 | FKB , the UK 's largest independent sales promotion company , has over the past 15 months made half a dozen US acquisitions . |
| 19 | Today , the Games ' record in this event stands at a superb 48.63 secs , while Ireland 's record-holder , Willie Johnston ( 52.25s ) , would have given Devitt a three-metre start and beaten him ! |
| 20 | Tony Bowran stands at a full six feet . |
| 21 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 22 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 23 | Put forward plans for a powerful United Nations Environment Programme to lead global efforts to protect the environment , operating within the framework of an ‘ Earth Charter ’ . |
| 24 | A line of farmhouses shelters below the steep eastern slopes of Whernside , distant from the main road and rarely disturbed by tourists and sightseers . |
| 25 | A line of farmhouse shelters below the steep eastern slopes of Whernside , distant from the main road and rarely disturbed by tourists and sightseers . |
| 26 | The funding will only be visible for three years , as it gradually merges into the personal social services element of the revenue support grant . |
| 27 | The amount of coal that is used is very much a question that is in the hands of British Coal as it negotiates with the current generating authorities . |
| 28 | It occurs under the following lowing conditions for two 's complement arithmetic , illustrated in Figure 2.5 . |
| 29 | We are introduced to Pemberton at the point where he is screwing up courage to say something about money , and all that happens in the subsequent two paragraphs is that the boy returns and his effort is frustrated . |
| 30 | Eighteen metres of extremely strenuous 8b+ follow ; the crus arrives in the final eight metres of climbing . |