Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Recognising his own inadequacy as a general , he appointed a succession of brilliant field commanders to lead the High Elf armies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . . |
| 7 | SEVERAL thousand hard-liners demonstrated yesterday outside the Russian parliament building to mark the second anniversary of the August 1991 coup and demand the resignation of President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 8 | Such a hypothesis attempts to describe a whole person , and not to separate certain aspects of an individual 's life for special attention . |
| 9 | And it has given the board opportunity to take the necessary action . |
| 10 | Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport . |
| 11 | The only modern touch is the use of the occasional thunder flash to keep the wild herd on the move in the right direction . |
| 12 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 13 | A privately run dock has been opened at Antigua Yacht Club to increase the mooring space in busy Falmouth Harbour . |
| 14 | For someone who is having regression therapy to uncover a traumatic event earlier in this present lifetime , a single session may well suffice . |
| 15 | Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities . |
| 16 | Thus evaluation can be used for decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given course , about the modification necessary for an existing programme , about the use of various teaching methods to achieve a pre-specified goal , or about the adoption of an innovation . |
| 17 | Another example of the multivariate approach is provided by Webber and Craig ( 1978 ) who used 40 variables from the 1971 Small Area Statistics Census data to classify the British population into six main family types and a number of sub-clusters , making 30 groups altogether , as shown in a simplified form in Figure 5.6 . |
| 18 | The Green Party has issued a challenge to all election candidates to sign a Green Charter setting out the principles it hopes candidates will adopt . |
| 19 | The Green Party has issued a challenge to all election candidates to sign a Green Charter setting out the principles it hopes candidates will adopt . |
| 20 | The Green Party has issued a challenge to all election candidates to sign a Green Charter setting out the principles it hopes candidates will adopt . |
| 21 | In summary , the available evidence suggests that under normal conditions Ca 2+ permeates NMDA channels to provide a transient signal which is necessary for the induction of LTP . |
| 22 | FIG. 2 Ca 2+ permeates NMDA channels to produce a transient signal in spines in response to tetanic stimulation . |
| 23 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 24 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 25 | When an accused faces a number of charges , it is very common for the defence advocate to offer a reduced plea to a number of the charges , provided others , often more serious ones , are dropped . |
| 26 | The garter carriage can be used to knit a ribbed welt , but always remember that if you set the garter carriage to knit a 24 row welt and then leave it , that is all it will achieve . |
| 27 | AEA has been working closely with the air transport industry throughout Europe and the US to develop rapid , reliable and cost effective inspection methods to ensure the continued airworthiness of commercial and military aircraft . |
| 28 | Ungar ( 1973 ) alleges that the test results on which Merrell secured permission from the Federal Drug Administration to market the chemical substance were proven to be ‘ doctored ’ , thus concealing the extent to which the company knew of the drug 's adverse side-effects . |
| 29 | The other is connected essentially or actually in parallel with the load through a large enough resistance R to swamp the inductive reactance , also as indicated in figure 7.2(b) . |
| 30 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |