Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this include both the design of the projects — ranging from the crops selected to the land to which people have moved — and the quality of their management . |
| 2 | All of this costs just a fiver . |
| 3 | The reforms of 1833 affected only the structure of the courts , not the law which they administered . |
| 4 | Incidents like this happen almost every day , usually — — raised by Tory hon. Members , and they are usually dealt with through the usual channels , the Government deputy Chief Whip , myself and the Serjeant at Arms . |
| 5 | Thus , the defence of the superiority of one nation against another had then a material dimension . |
| 6 | For those living nearby the pollution is a tragedy . |
| 7 | Saxton , a doyen of British headhunting , is Chairman of the Executive Recruitment Association , formed in 1985 to link together a variety of search firms ; as yet , it would appear that few of the largest are interested , but this body could form a foundation for a professional association of headhunting in Britain . |
| 8 | It thus became impossible for any king in future to prolong indefinitely the life of a complaisant House of Commons , as Charles II had done with the ‘ Cavalier Parliament ’ of 1661–79 . |
| 9 | After Edward III 's death Herland was regranted the pesage of wools at Queenborough , and in 1378 received also the pesage at Sandwich and was appointed carpenter and controller of works at Rochester Castle . |
| 10 | The World Health Organization at the Alma Ata Conference in 1978 set forth the importance of community participation in primary health care . |
| 11 | The leaky valves for Intal inhalers were manufactured by a subcontractor and an application was made to the FDA in 1987 to change both the valve and the manufacturing site . |
| 12 | During his stay US planes had dropped 64 bundles of rations — enough for one person in four to eat once a day . |
| 13 | The Board of Education 's own Adult Education Committee in their Paper No.9 published in 1927 recognised both the nature of , and solution to , the problems of rural areas : |
| 14 | The wind farm is a joint venture between Tomen , a Japanese trading house , EcoGen , a UK company formed in 1990 to bring together a number of interests working on commercial wind power , and SeaWest , a US company and the world 's largest developer of wind farms . |
| 15 | And I 'd like you to both spend quite a bit of time just playing with the numbers that make up three sixty . |
| 16 | Unable at first to afford even a bed , she slept behind the shop on a sack filled with paper straw from the empty sweet boxes . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 18 | But with the introduction of this new and quite different element we , as it were , at last cast aside the painter that tied our boat to the safe bank of blueprint detective fiction . |
| 19 | While the government remained wedded to budgetary orthodoxy , it was by 1938 allocating over a quarter of the budget to defence , prefiguring the even greater commitments after war 's outbreak . |