Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , terrible though it might be to imagine , Mistress Philippa had the cool nerve and composure to be a murderess , and Parchmeiner might well be her accomplice . |
| 2 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 3 | There would be nothing , in principle , to prevent an ex-employee computer programmer writing a similar program by the exercise of his own mental effort provided he did not simply plagiarize his previous employer 's program . |
| 4 | Souvenir hunters revived the centuries-old tradition after a huge tanker washed up on the rocks below East Prawle , Devon . |
| 5 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 6 | The middle notes last a little longer ( rose , neroli ) ; and the base notes have a profound influence on the blend . |
| 7 | Their civilian Folbot canoe had no added buoyancy of Mae-West lifebelts , no navigation aids , not even a spray cover as they crossed the sound from the Scottish mainland to land on the isle of Mull . |
| 8 | The base component produces a deep structure tree . |
| 9 | The horns were still there , curled and chipped , the brown hair was coarse and stiff , and the flyridden eyesockets gave an uneasy impression of movement . |
| 10 | The scheme has made it clear to managers that the teaching contracts represent a substantial part of each hospital 's budget , and Dr Pearson says that most managers are now very anxious to work with the medical school to ensure a good service for the students . |
| 11 | The awards will be presented at the House of Sport on October with each category winner receiving an engraved Wassail goblet donated by sponsors Tyrone Crystal . |
| 12 | Clearly , the comparative static effects on the output and sales decisions stand or fall together ( and it is quite encouraging to see that that is indeed the case with our subjects ) : if a given parameter change suggests an upward movement in a reservation price then it should also suggest an upward movement in output ( and vice versa ) . |
| 13 | The Cuban decision raised immediate fears in the USA that the 1980 officially sanctioned exodus of 125,000 Cubans [ see pp. 30474-75 ] might be repeated , and there were reports that the US navy was reviewing contingency plans to mount a naval blockade . |
| 14 | In 1971 Oleg Lyalin , a KGB officer working at the Russian trade mission in London , defected to MI6 and gave enough information about Russian espionage activities to justify the prime minister , Edward Heath , expelling an unprecedented 105 Russian diplomats from Britain . |
| 15 | Recognising his own inadequacy as a general , he appointed a succession of brilliant field commanders to lead the High Elf armies . |
| 16 | West Knitting fleece had a disappointing year , aggravated by the unfortunate coincidence of late product specification by a major customer with the launch of new screenprint brand which caused severe production and delivery difficulties . |
| 17 | Now Scottish Natural Heritage will pay crofters in an area north of Uig — the bird 's last stronghold on Skye — in an effort to re-establish traditional management of enclosed croft grasslands to provide a safe habitat for the corncrakes . |
| 18 | How schools set about developing the statutory orders in the context of whole — curriculum policies represents a significant challenge for leadership and , not the least in primary schools , the strategies adopted by headteachers . |
| 19 | Branch roads linked the main mining centres , enabling the lead , silver , iron and copper products of the interior to be brought to the coast for export across the Adriatic or , in the case of the Serbian and north Bosnian mines , to be transported to the Danube . |
| 20 | The national curriculum proposals form the first part of the Education Reform Bill , which also contains proposals in relation to open enrolments , financial delegation to schools , the establishment of grant maintained schools and various proposals for higher education . |
| 21 | During January the federal banking authorities faced a renewed spate of failures among the 10,000 small banking institutions which conducted the bulk of America 's retail banking activity . |
| 22 | The Thunder Board has a 11 voice FM music synthesiser that is fully AdLib compatible a very large library of games support this standard . |
| 23 | As a result the X-ray absorption spectrum contains a precise signature of the atomic environment of a particular element . |
| 24 | Once this condition is reached , say with potential difference , balance is approached much better by adjusting the quadrature component to reach a new range to that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from some new much lower minimum . |
| 25 | It is a fairly uncomplicated system that avoids any conflicts about objectives and the methods of achieving them , particularly when budget preparation follows a tight timetable . |
| 26 | The Town Trail attempts to link the long history of Northampton and present you , the visitor , with a taste of the heritage which belongs to this handsome town . . |
| 27 | Variety chains offer a wider range of products . |
| 28 | An increase in the national insurance rates , without a commensurate rise in income support , means that those on income support gain no net increase in benefit . |
| 29 | When the policy was first implemented , there was no question but that those who were then on supplementary benefit and are now on income support gained a first-class service from the homes . |
| 30 | The Banking Ombudsman provides a free service , acting independently of banks as an impartial adjudicator . |