Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 2 | First of all , the main story in our news at five thirty , and I think unless anything more dramatic happens , it will be the main story right through the news bulletins of this programme . |
| 3 | Table 5.6 shows a sample passage of handwritten text together with the recognition results for it , and the reductions in the number of candidates which would have been allowed , had a measure of word length been used . |
| 4 | At a muddy little pond halfway up the hill swallows were dive-bombing its insect life and three brown pigs browsed at the further end of the meadow . |
| 5 | In Chapter 3 we identified ten ‘ generic activities ’ which we found to underpin primary classroom practice regardless of the subject labels used by the teacher , and argued that these activities therefore constitute at least as important a curriculum reality — certainly for children — as terms like ‘ topic ’ or even ‘ language ’ . |
| 6 | New product launches , for example , are often sprung on the PR department long after the lead times for important monthlies and weeklies have passed . |
| 7 | A downstream firm may wish to integrate grate backwards despite the scale economies in order to value ( shadow price ) additional units of input at marginal cost . |
| 8 | I have purposely positioned this photograph away from the conference photographs to avoid readers confusing it with views of the Institute Officers . |
| 9 | Gill naturally began probing top British Aerospace personnel who , facing redundancy and compulsory relocation away from the Home Counties to the North of England , were interested in the opportunities on offer . |
| 10 | At this stage , Scott was obviously not pleading for the setting aside of the competition results , as has been suggested , but on the contrary , for the employment of the successful competitors , of whom there were four including Barry , with more right to the work than he had . |
| 11 | The creation of a zonal level of administration directly under the Home Affairs Ministry was announced at the end of 1988 with the 18 existing districts or dzongkhags to be grouped under four zonal administrative headquarters . |
| 12 | Rory took the low-slung car cautiously over the traffic humps . |
| 13 | The Chancellor said he wanted talks with the opposition immediately after the Easter holidays . |
| 14 | Art historians may be interested in anything which requires the use of one 's eyes in order to understand it , from Chartres Cathedral and Michelangelo 's Moses to the signs and symbols of everyday life in twentieth-century society , and they may find the objects of their study anywhere from the sale rooms to the archaeologist 's excavation trench . |
| 15 | All they have to do is pick a hotel or apartment away from the disco areas . |
| 16 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 17 | He only reveals his true feelings when he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave just before the curtain falls . |
| 18 | The first was the reason for sponsorship was visibility and publicity , the second social responsibility , the third brand development with special reference obviously to the drink companies . |
| 19 | Several series are accompanied by books which aim to help the individual work alone with the video materials , and one , Framework English is specifically described as a self-study course . |
| 20 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 21 | THE widows of two Gulf War airmen sent a heartfelt message of good luck yesterday to the Tornado crews and their loved ones . |
| 22 | It , it 's the same fee regardless of the policy rates . |
| 23 | Because they are unaffected by psychology and do n't take break tests they can be used to pin down a much more powerful enemy , diverting attention away from the core units . |
| 24 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 25 | Perhaps a perfect circle just above the oculist charts ? |
| 26 | Straight back into the routine just after a coupla weeks . |
| 27 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 28 | It is accepted that the corridor effect may well operate in the years immediately after 193 and the current rush of development is , of course , partly designed to offset the loss in employment caused by general economic decline and the likely transfer of business away from the Channel ports to the Tunnel . |
| 29 | A 200 000 acre forest site just outside the park boundaries will be cleared and replanted with softwoods to supply the mill . |
| 30 | A week later , however , when Branson walked into the shop close to the Virgin offices in Portobello Road where Joan worked , selling Victorian advertising ephemera , and invited her to lunch , she accepted . |