Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | The American law of libel , including as it does no protection for the individual politician as well as political institutions , goes further along the road of freedom of the press than the English law ; nor would I wish to extend it . |
2 | This is in preparation for the new Sprinters when they come into service . |
3 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
4 | Rarely will there be a more appropriate case for the new law than that of Thomas Courtney . |
5 | While white settlers and colonial civil servants were provided with both government schools and a number of fee-paying private schools , many of them regarded the expansion of educational provision for the black population as politically dangerous . |
6 | As a general rule stimuli which are heard within , or from part of a linguistic context give rise to an advantage for the right ear whereas stimuli heard within a non-linguistic context are more likely to show a superiority favouring the left ear . |
7 | The subjects hearing occasional words showed a right ear advantage for the vowel-varied stimuli whereas those subjects who heard non-verbal sounds exhibited a left ear superiority for the same stimuli . |
8 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
9 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
10 | In a speech on Nov. 12 the United States President Bush announced that US diplomatic representation in Laos would be upgraded to ambassadorial level for the first time since the communist regime came to power in 1975 . |
11 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
12 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
13 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
14 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
15 | The mean height increment during the first year after diagnosis was 4.4 ( 2.3 ) cm . |
16 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
17 | Thus during a visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Datuk Hussein Onn , in September 1979 Kosygin expressed support for the ZOPFAN resolution since its implementation ‘ would establish a precondition for the widening of the process of détente over all the Asian continent ’ . |
18 | With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 . |
19 | The building materials company has been a market defensive favourite for the past decade as it concentrated on keeping down the costs of making its cement , and joinery , glass and steel products . |
20 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
21 | There is no surviving detailed assessment of income for the eleventh-century papacy as there is for the English kings in the great Domesday Book of 1086 . |
22 | Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland . |
23 | In terms of historical change , manual workers of both sexes work today almost as many hours each week as they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s ; this demonstrates the fact that , where available , overtime is a crucial necessity for the manual worker if he or she is to receive a wage at or above the ‘ average ’ for all manual occupations . |
24 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
25 | As far as could be foreseen , they were to retain responsibility for the nuclear deterrent after ballistic missiles had taken over from manned bombers . |
26 | But with 17 matches to go and key players returning , Strudwick believes his side can reach the big-time for the first time since the Rugby League began their bid to take the game beyond the confines of Yorkshire and Lancashire with the Fulham experiment back in the early eighties . |
27 | Gould was immediately attracted to the art of lithography for the same reasons as Lear — the relative inexpensiveness of production and the lack of training required — but he also saw great potential for Lear 's large-size format and colourful plates , which could , Gould thought , if properly promoted and well managed , prove extremely lucrative . |
28 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
29 | Worker bees are three times more closely related to their full sisters than to their half sisters , so workers could enhance their fitness by raising a full sister as the new queen when the colony swarms . |
30 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |