Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress . |
| 2 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 3 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 4 | For example , when I started this column yesterday , I thought that Norman Lamont had pulled a brilliantly sneaky Budget trick by making the rich pay a little more tax and letting the poor pay a whole lot less . |
| 5 | It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past . |
| 6 | In January 1989 Thailand shocked the hardwood industry by introducing a complete ban on logging in all its forests . |
| 7 | x environments , Sun users can get Display Postscript from Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Integrated Computer Solutions Inc following a parallel deal Adobe struck last month ( UX 403 ) . |
| 8 | Bill Clinton , during and after his campaign , promised to find budget savings by shortening the average maturity ( currently five years and ten months ) of the national debt by selling more short-term paper and less long-term . |
| 9 | While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays . |
| 10 | A member of the Leeds ' band Hang The Dance , Roman Remeynes , contacted The Wedding Present after hearing the Ukrainian session and accused them of bastardising the music . |
| 11 | Goodlad 's ideas have received some outside encouragement : the Royal Society of Arts gave his course on communication of scientific ideas an Education for Capability award for providing an effective combination of academic reflection and the learning of practical skills in communication of ideas . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the consequences for research funding of ending the binary divide . |
| 13 | We will illustrate frontier search by solving a mixed integer linear problem ( MILP ) in which some , but not all , of the structural variables are required to be integer-valued . |
| 14 | DUNDEE has been chosen as the centre for a major research programme into finding an early warning clinical test for the onset of Alzheimer 's Disease , writes James Rougvie . |
| 15 | Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements . |
| 16 | But , in fact , it is conscious discrimination by policy makers against the unemployed which has had the side effect of making the relative position of pensioners look artificially advantageous . |
| 17 | Thus in Europe , automobiles have been subjected to a good deal of standardization in matters concerning safety and pollution , but that has not precluded the car industry from providing a vast range of choice in terms of styling and performance . |
| 18 | Now Gwynedd County Council have announced their intention to commission a comprehensive feasibility study into re-opening the whole line in conjunction with the 1964 Comp[any who have steadfastly maintained their stance of wanting to start reconstruction from the southern end where they are operating a three-quarter of a mile line along former British Rail land beside Porthmadog station . |
| 19 | A local authority delegation recently urged public transport minister Roger Freeman to initiate a full feasibility study into creating a high speed line alongside the West Coast line as part of the European network . |
| 20 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 21 | This pilot research will serve as a feasibility study for mounting a larger project on telephone selling . |
| 22 | She gave a two month history of symptoms typical of intermittent small bowel obstruction before requiring a limited right hemicolectomy . |
| 23 | To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing , for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer . |
| 24 | The purchaser will sometimes make completion conditional on receiving a satisfactory surveyor 's report in relation to the property . |
| 25 | In the early 1960s over 300 consumers suffered adverse side effects from taking the chemical MER/29 which was advertised as medically beneficial to heart sufferers . |
| 26 | At a meeting on Dec. 27 in Damascus , the Syrian capital , agreement was reached between 17 opposition groups belonging to the Iraqi National Joint Action Committee on issuing a common programme calling for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of a democratic system . |
| 27 | Do n't forget that you should get all the main vitamins and minerals , as well as the trace elements by eating a balanced , nutritious diet . |
| 28 | Hopwood , a case in which the House of Lords upheld the decision of the district auditor to surcharge members of Poplar Borough Council for maintaining a minimum wage for its employees which was not only in excess of wage rates in the area but was also paid to men and women alike . |
| 29 | The certification to BS 5750 for Design and Construction which followed the successful assessment by BSI last autumn , was fitting reward for the hard work and efforts of all WEC staff in establishing a first class Quality Management System . |
| 30 | Fielding , for example , describes his research strategy for studying the National Front as follows : to understand why NF members believe what they do , and to examine the link between their ideology and their actions … |