Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 2 | Many of us saw this as an opportunity for mankind to make a small gesture of recompense to the cetaceans ( the whale family ) for the abuses we had inflicted upon them . |
| 3 | The provision for abandonment represents the accumulated amount of the Group 's share of abandonment cost of £58 million [ 1991 £45 million ] for all North Sea fields in which the Group has an interest and which are currently in production , £1 million [ 1991 £nil ] for similar costs in Nova Scotia , and £nil [ 1991 £1 million ] in Australia . |
| 4 | Against this , it is arguable that one can feel the sense of waiting and subsequent satisfaction only when there is some expected framework , and the framework for language has no obvious parallels with non-linguistic ones ; so we do have one autonomous characteristic of language , even if all the others — equation of two elements , instantiation of one element by another , and so on — are part of the much more general perceptual and conceptual apparatus of human beings . |
| 5 | Fold in flour and baking powder then add enough milk for mixture to have a soft dropping consistency . |
| 6 | These represent the government 's formal request to Parliament for cash to finance the major part of central government 's expenditure . |
| 7 | There was strong support for maturity having a negative effect on volume , that is , volume rises as delivery approaches . |
| 8 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 9 | UEFA 's decision to overturn shamed opponents Dinamo Tbilisi 's appeal against disqualification for bribery means the Georgian club will automatically lose their win bonus for defeating the Blues 3–2 in the preliminary round . |
| 10 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 11 | Afterwards we fell to talking of the cold December Wednesday in 1967 when he and the rest of Tow Law 's bairns took the afternoon off school to watch the local Northern League side beat Mansfield Town 5–1 in the FA Cup . |
| 12 | And of the Adults who left during the siege , or who managed to survive the fire , three Britons will soon go on trial for conspiracy to murder the federal agents who were killed or wounded in the initial shoot out . |
| 13 | ROYAL Mail staff from Essex hope to deliver a £3,000 cash boost for charity following a sponsored abseiling session yesterday . |
| 14 | This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome . |
| 15 | Recognition Research for example has a Windows-based package , Autonets , which can run on a personal computer . |
| 16 | Fruit juices are high in fructose , which weight for weight has the same calories as sucrose ( ordinary sugar ) . |
| 17 | Using the same cut off point yields a correct classification of 90% ( 66/73 ) of surviving patients , 67% ( 12/18 ) of deaths and 86% ( 78/91 ) of both survivals and deaths when assessing specific outcome with the Pugh model . |
| 18 | Bernie 's nose section has seen much publicity in the past , and has recently ‘ starred ’ in a well-known TV advert for lager featuring a new interpretation of the Dam Busters raid ! |
| 19 | The initial onus will be on the employee as applicant to demonstrate an outstanding benefit to the employer ; and as we have seen , this is no easy task . |
| 20 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 21 | Robert Jordan 's fantasy series The Wheel Of Time has a growing band of fans , who will enjoy his latest , THE DRAGON REBORN ( Orbit £5.99 ) . |
| 22 | Under the system of fixed exchange rates any export of capital affected the reserve position though precisely how depended on the manner in which the investment was financed . |
| 23 | But the Board of Trade had a great deal of latitude to vary the precise details of the arrangement , and insisted that , for discs , the records should bear the stamps , not the sleeves . |
| 24 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 25 | To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise . |
| 26 | Intravenous administration of acetaldehyde elicited a prompt rise in blood pressure and increase in bronchial resistance associated with augmentation of blood histamine concentration . |
| 27 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 28 | Styles changed to suit the visitors ' demands , and with volume and speed of production becoming the prime considerations , standards of craftsmanship steadily declined . |
| 29 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 30 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |