Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is being sponsored by Scotmid and to coincide with the display there will be horse drawn tours of the High Street , run in conjunction with Scotmid and using one of their working carriages .
2 His findings , which included a vivid account of the scandalous extent of quackery , were published in 1806 as a pamphlet entitled Remarks on the Ineffective State of the Practice of Physic in Great Britain ; with Proposals for its Future Regulation and Improvement .
3 In 1970 the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act placed obligations upon the local authorities to identify and help the disabled .
4 As with all computer technology the price of the necessary hardware and software has been falling dramatically and more and more manufacturers are starting to take seriously the idea of producing pen based computers for the mass market .
5 An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second .
6 it was er , at a time when this an African district committee sent representatives to the central and visa versa
7 He attacked the British Government for its stand on refugees from war torn areas of the former Yugoslavia and criticised the British public for offering solutions to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia when conflict in Northern Ireland continues .
8 The respect in which this shift affected attitudes toward the Copernican system may not be immediately obvious because Luther and Calvin had both made disparaging remarks about the new astronomy .
9 Police in Egypt arrested more than 800 members of a group called Vanguards of the New Holy Struggle .
10 Other computer based variations on the basic concept use a mouse-driven pointer to select key areas of an image .
11 Kovalenko cast doubts on the ASEAN proposal for a neutral zone since he imagined it ‘ wrong to think that the ASEAN countries have already managed fully to break away from the influence of the imperialist powers and that they are free to pursue their own foreign policy ’ .
12 Recently , this hospital 's dietitian requested changes in the patient information sheet for a protocol approved by that committee .
13 In September the Planning Commission released details of the eighth five-year plan to cover 1990-95 .
14 The army imposed curfews on the occupied lands , and one and a half million Palestinians were confined to their homes .
15 There 's more of the same in the West Country where North Wheddon Farm ( Tel : 064 384 1224 ) near Minehead offers centre based holidays for the experienced , featuring the burnished hills of Exmoor , highly suited for exciting riding .
16 Water absorption from rice based solutions in the secretory state was about 70% of that in the normal state compared with about 50% for all other ORS .
17 While such graphic interpretations of how Hendrix and his music influenced artists of the '60s were important , the brains behind the exhibition felt that the man was too big an icon to remain stuck in the past .
18 The United States Congress requested officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to attend an emergency hearing on June 29 to explain the failure of the Hubble Space Telescope and also a decision to ground all space shuttle craft .
19 Sweet 's report cast doubts on the eventual feasibility of fusion as a viable power source and implied that the large sums of money could be better used elsewhere .
20 Has the Minister received representations from the British Textile Confederation ?
21 After his apprenticeship , he started work for a contract catering company called Partners at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden .
22 The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum .
23 The survey probed attitudes towards the political process and the respondent 's view of his or her own role in it , towards the monarchy , House of Lords , EEC , NATO and Northern Ireland , nuclear weapons , Britain 's economic problems , taxation , pensions , the respondent 's own job and job security , the welfare state and system of social security , health , housing , education , crime and the criminal process , poverty , social class , race and moral questions of various kinds .
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