Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future .
2 From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity .
3 She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man .
4 Differentiation refers to the different relationships , departments and goals that exist within an organisation and integration is the degree of co-ordination and co-operation between different departments with inter-departmental tasks .
5 In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions .
6 This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation .
7 Analysis of political power in terms of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , with distinctions between ‘ institutional ’ and ‘ systemic ’ agendas , derives largely from the non-decision-making approach and is the nearest neo-elitism has come to producing general models of the kind favoured by the traditional elitists .
8 There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) .
9 But Mr Fallon has replied , saying he was ‘ puzzled ’ at her request that the Government matched the funding given by the Two Castles Housing Association .
10 Yes , so I thought , I might erm , cos I bought a jumper , I bought a pale blue jumper to go with the flowery leggings , but , I 've decided I 'll take blue jumper back , cos , although it would be alright with plain white trousers I thought that 's all I would wear it with , I would n't wear it with anything else , so , I think I 'll change that , if I get the dark blue leggings like Jamie , then I 'll get the striped jumper the same .
11 That Parliament relied on the Ministerial statements is shown by the fact that the matter was never raised again after the discussions in Committee , that amendments were consequentially withdrawn and that no relevant amendment was made which could affect the correctness of the minister 's statement .
12 The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers .
13 For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed .
14 We do not wish to be the first case of this kind to go before the Special Commissioners .
15 Red-headed England 's Glory spilled across the bare boards of the floor .
16 It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists .
17 A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches .
18 The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education .
19 Do n't expect Schedule Express to go into the fine details of resource management .
20 The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations .
21 This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age .
22 But the most damaging problem was the Scots ' inability to cope with the driving mauls of Gaul .
23 Although cholecystitis stopped in the three months follow up in that case , we did not consider this technique for our patient because of her history of fistulas .
24 The description refers to the old buildings that were burnt down in 1834 ( see FIRE WHICH DESTROYED PARLIAMENT ) .
25 ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time .
26 It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since .
27 How stable is a system where the amounts of money whizzing around the foreign exchanges in search of a quick fix are 50 times more than the total needed to finance the whole of world trade ?
28 If the aspect ratio is very low , so that the stacks are wide and thin , the stress may again be quasi-uniform but the constraint placed by the stiff layers on the less-stiff increases the overall longitudinal modulus very greatly , particularly if the less-stiff material has the Poisson ratio of a rubber .
29 The unity witnessed over the two days had been greater than he could ever have hoped for , and the remaining morning 's session of ‘ rounding up ’ would , he trusted , be rich in commitments on the part of participants concerning action each would be taking before the important international conference in Switzerland .
30 That 's the theory … here 's the practical … first the course … they 've mapped out the 26 miles … the beauty of the route lies in the cobbled squares of ancient towns like Bhaktapur … the beast is the city … traffic and smoke is a major problem … the other unknown factor is altitude …
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