Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moscow sets terms for unity debate Following are extracts from an address to members of the European Parliament given yesterday by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 2 | Her features were well-shaped even so early , and the jaw placed finely on the white neck with its blue flush of springing hair . |
| 3 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 4 | A The first kind developed out of the Romantic movement which emerged at a time when artists of all kinds rebelled against being servants in wealthy households , obeying their patrons ' orders and being regulated by religious , political and other advisers . |
| 5 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 6 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 7 | Mr. Philpot travelled from Pembrokeshire for a gathering which was not primarily a fund-raising event , but rather a celebration of the building carried out over the previous fifteen years to provide extensions of both premises and facilities . |
| 8 | Consistent with conversationist bodies , however , we are appalled by much of the development of our pub heritage carried out during the 1950s and '60s . |
| 9 | If we take the Prime Minister 's words at face value — that the Conserservative party will not raise the rate of VAT — does the hon. Gentleman recall an interview given recently by the Chief Secretary , when he was asked about extending coverage of VAT to transport fares ? |
| 10 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 11 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 12 | According to a report by the Senate committee on violence and pacification which was monitoring acts of political violence carried out by the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) , the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amarú — MRTA ) , right-wing death squads and other extremist groups and also , in 1989 , links between rebel groups and drug traffickers , it was estimated that a total of 3,198 people were killed as a result of such activity in the course of 1989 , compared with 1,986 in 1988 . |
| 13 | Since there are substantial differences between industrial relations across industries , which may be unrelated to the national context in which they operate , what is really an ‘ industry ’ effect could be misinterpreted as being a ‘ national ’ effect in a comparative study confined solely to the national level . |
| 14 | After the initial nationalisation programme carried out by the post-war Labour government , there was relatively little change in the frontiers between the state sector and the private sector . |
| 15 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 16 | Thus , research carried out over the past few years indicates that the traits described above actually overlap considerably with those found in so-called ‘ schizotypal ’ individuals , i.e. People whose temperamental make-up seems similar to that underlying schizophrenia , continuous with it in the personality domain but without any obvious signs of psychotic illness . |
| 17 | The warning 's based on research carried out at the Public Health Laboratory in Gloucester after the 'flu epidemic of 1989 . |
| 18 | According to the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , less than 1 per cent of research carried out in the developed countries has any significance for the developing world , and half that research effort is devoted to military and related activities . |
| 19 | Earlier this week Clacton , unemployment blackspot of the South East , was tipped to win grant aid following research carried out by the General Municipal Boilermakers ' Union . |
| 20 | In his work Book availability and the library users , Buckland reports on a study carried out on the short loan collection at Lancaster University , in which he relates both the loan period and the library 's duplication policy to demand for individual titles . |
| 21 | According to details reported on Aug. 8 , a study carried out by the Canadian government concluded that a mixture of energy efficiency and conservation would be the best approach to achieve the 20 per cent cut . |
| 22 | It is only in the third- and fourth-session documents that this is to be found , and increasingly frequently , as , for instance , in chapter 13 of Lumen Gentium or in chapter 3 of the Decree on Missionary Activity , entitled ‘ Particular Churches ’ — a chapter written largely in the fourth session and one of the Council 's most mature texts . |
| 23 | Active hegemony in effect operated only on the moderate right wing of Labour , that ‘ intellectual group most congenial to the majority of Trade Union leaders ’ ( ibid. p 181 ) . |
| 24 | The serious fraud office has been sent details of a business deal drawn up by the former chairman of Oxford United Kevin Maxwell , and the former managing director of Derby County . |
| 25 | Despite being in the centre of the notorious inner-city area of Manchester ( Hulme — an architectural tragedy born out of the fevered brain of a drawing board moron and giving ( high ) rise to a staggering suicide rate . |
| 26 | This is a condition brought about by the combined effect of evolution and civilisation and for everyone it is quite unavoidable . |
| 27 | This is the remedy provided today by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 . |
| 28 | The reserve was the flagship of Project Tiger , the recovery programme set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1972 . |
| 29 | Or maybe she was experiencing a sort of nightmare or hallucination — some kind of unfortunate delusion brought on by the overwhelming stress and strain of her job … ? |
| 30 | ‘ Memphis ’ is the name of the design partnership set up by the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass in 1981 when he exhibited the furniture which has now become pseudonymous with this name at the Italian Furniture Fair . |