Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salmond called on Sept. 27 for a referendum to be held setting out the choices for Scotland as full independence within the European Communities , limited self-government or continuing with the constitutional status quo . |
| 2 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 3 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
| 4 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 5 | He watched attentively , noting every frown , every look of puzzlement , every last betraying blink or twitch in the old man 's face , anxious to gauge the depth of his feelings . |
| 6 | If you would like to join the committee and influence policy , pass on a good idea , attend the community lunch held for those working in the area , get involved in producing the regular Headington Area Newsletter , join an informal discussion group or borrow material on Health , Parenting or Caring for the Elderly , make a special request or offer your services as a tutor or Youth Club volunteer , we would love to hear from you . |
| 7 | Hopes for a ‘ green lung ’ in the heart of the city are fading , particularly since the announcement that Mercedes Benz is to build a huge service centre on Potsdamer Platz , dashing hopes that it might be left as a park or rebuilt as the commercial hub of the city it was before the war . |
| 8 | New toys are found for me and I play in the courtyard of the high-walled convent or slide on the waxed floors , too shy to talk to anyone . |
| 9 | If a school intends to operate a form of option system allowing pupils to drop history at Key Stage 4 or to opt for the short course or continue with the full course , pupils and parents will presumably wish to base their decision on performance to date . |
| 10 | In the near future the Guild is planning to open a new Museum of Knitting & Crochet in the historic village of Saltaire near Bradford . |
| 11 | Any free play or slop in the fore/aft cyclic linkages will aggravate this situation . |
| 12 | For this reason , our one-year programme is designed to allow students to take the occupational SVQ at level II in either administration or finance at the same time as the general SVQ at level II in business administration . |
| 13 | Haeckel reconstructed the tree of life to give it a main trunk or stem with the human race at the top : all developments in other directions were merely side branches of little real importance . |
| 14 | Next is the graphic equaliser , also switchable in or out , with a powerful 15 dB of boost or cut at the 7 well-chosen frequency centres of 50Hz , 100Hz , 230Hz , 500Hz , 1kHz , 2kHz and 5kHz . |
| 15 | In particular the meaning of a term or link in the semantic net was often unclear to them . |
| 16 | Stitch braid or fringing to the right side on the lower edge . |
| 17 | You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future . |
| 18 | A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " . |
| 19 | The annual rate of loss by shipwreck or burning during the same period may have been about 4 percent . |
| 20 | We waited on the top-floor landing for a minute or two , but there seemed no coming or going from the other flats . |
| 21 | The success of British exporters , which apparently does not get one word of congratulation or praise from the Labour party , gives the lie to what the hon. Gentleman has just said . |
| 22 | Denied any recognition or support from the outside , beleaguered by the blockade , and reportedly unable to exert control over an internal situation rapidly degenerating into anarchy , the BRA leadership remained open to the prospects of a settlement with the PNG government . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 24 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 25 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 26 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 27 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
| 28 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 29 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 30 | Despite these real successes , however , my sense is that now is a time to take stock and to reflect on the theoretical , pedagogic and political foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism . |