Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest will be paid over two years from the £1.75 million annual purchase grant of the National Galleries of Scotland . |
| 2 | This is hardly a stream of invective and obscenity but it 's a long way from the stuffed shirt formality of the '50s interviews . |
| 3 | The distribution of age , waist-hip ratio , and body mass index of the 30 women lost to follow up was not significantly different from that of women with known outcome ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 4 | The deal which is arrived at will be dependent upon the balance of power ( see Chapter 4 ) and the negotiating skills of the respective parties . |
| 5 | The long-time social crusader said he had been ousted by the trade union block vote and had won the majority support of the individual members of the Birkenhead constituency who took part in the secret ballot on Tuesday . |
| 6 | The three main problems that affect investors ' confidence in the stock market are market manipulation ( as in the Guinness affair ) , insider dealing ( Geoffrey Collier , Ivan Boesky ) , and investment fraud ( Barlow Clowes , Dunsdale ) , all of which are supposed to be eliminated ( or at least limited ) under the investor protection rules of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 7 | Several research groups have carried out experiments designed to distinguish between a composite wave function of the two particles and a simple product ( New Scientist , vol 85 , p 746 ) . |
| 8 | For a copy of the latest edition of the Dulnain guide complete with sketch maps of the major rapids , send 50p to Glenarn , Dallas , Morayshire IV36 0SA . |
| 9 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 10 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 11 | The substance of the book is a case study of the particular ways in which women 's employment is accommodated within the household and family or in which it brings about changes of various kinds , but its further aim is to explore the structural similarities between the experiences of industrialised India and Western Europe in respect of changing family forms and the position of women . |
| 12 | This leaves a net position of 9 × $20 000 = $180 000 long in a synthetic index future of the smaller companies quoted on the NYSE . |
| 13 | In May 1982 Britain tried to force concessions by delaying a review of CAP prices , but was defeated by a majority vote of the other members , an event which called into question the Luxembourg Compromise and showed that Thatcher could not simply act as a new de Gaulle . |
| 14 | The gap was filled with people who had learnt something about intelligence and too much ( in the Service 's view ) about weaponry in the Resistance schools of the Special Operations Executive . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State said that he would note my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan 's suggestion that the employment protection aspects of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 be extended to cover those TA members have less than two years ' continuous employment . |
| 16 | The wage rise which is finally agreed upon ( between 3 and 9 per cent ) depends on the relative bargaining strengths of the two sides . |
| 17 | The writer Frank Harris , best known for My Life and Loves , insured his card index of the 2,000 women he claimed to have seduced with Lloyd 's . |
| 18 | the bare lava peaks of the Simien mountains reach 4000 metres into the sky . |
| 19 | There were as many Probate Courts as there were dioceses , in addition to the Prerogative Courts of the two Archbishops , and a number of courts in places called Peculiars , places outside a bishop 's jurisdiction , and under a special ecclesiastical jurisdiction of their own . |
| 20 | At the top of the hierarchy were the civil service employees in the administration headquarters of the different branches and in Moscow . |
| 21 | He tried to fit the image around the word ‘ quaint ’ , or rather the nearest Trob equivalent , which was ‘ that pleasant oddity of design found in the little coral houses of the sponge-eating pigmies on the Orohai peninsular ’ . |
| 22 | We hope that communication between SCOTVEC and centres will be strengthened as a result of the subject-expert support of the external verifiers . |
| 23 | No reliable interpretation of these scripts has yet been established , but in the Dunadd fort the wording must surely , along with the bowl and footprint , be related to coronation rituals of the Dalriadic kings rather than to the Picts . |
| 24 | It is only car cases of the larger mammals that kites are interested in and help to remove . |
| 25 | Tables 1 and 2 show diagnoses , stool fat , and wet weight , as well as breath H 2 excretion data of the 20 patients and Figure 2 shows the mean ( SEM ) breath H 2 curves after lactulose or rice flour ingestion . |
| 26 | There will be a rolling maintenance programme of the external walls and roof to ensure they continue to be wind and watertight . |
| 27 | Differences between the cululative BrdUrd labelling distributions of the colonic crypts of both groups were analysed by two sample , two tailed Kolmogorov-Smirnov test . |
| 28 | This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes . |
| 29 | Though he found the passionate irresponsibility of the Homeric world ‘ shocking ’ , preferring its Virgilian successor ‘ because it was a more civilized world of dignity , reason and order ’ , Eliot also realized that the all-important ‘ mind of Europe ’ was one ‘ which changes , and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route , which does not superannuate either Shakespeare , or Homer , or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draughtsmen ’ . |
| 30 | The government announced a five-year reorganization programme of the armed forces on Dec. 7 ( originally to have been publicized on Dec. 3 ) . |