Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 2 | Lawson Software Inc , Minneapolis , which despite dipping its toe into the Unix market has hitherto concentrated on the AS/400 as the platform for its financial and distribution software , is to launch its new ‘ Open Enterprise ’ range of software during the first week of February . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the Angolan people are well known for their friendliness to foreigners and for their placid and kind nature . |
| 4 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 5 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 6 | As their price falls , however , a larger differential between their current and redemption price emerges . |
| 7 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 8 | Farmed salmon has been discovered in 13 out of 16 rivers on the west coast of Scotland , while salmon fishermen have reported that 40 per cent of their coastal and estuary catch contains farm-type salmon . |
| 9 | Since the Second Vatican Council she had even been removed from the Universal Canon , by ignorant prelates who — full of their scientific and rationalist approach to the institutions of sanctity — insisted she had never existed . |
| 10 | Minneapolis-based Lawson Software Inc is to launch version 6.0 of its financial and distribution software in the first quarter of 1993 , and with it a more international strategy . |
| 11 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 12 | Millicent Fawcett , a moderate suffragist and President of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS ) , was also prominent in the NVA as head of its preventive and rescue sub-committee . |
| 13 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 14 | Further , many features of its geometric and border decoration are familiar : continuous swastika meander , relieved , all-over swastika meander , and — most significantly — strips of acanthus scroll ( with red , black and yellow leaves ) which are almost identical to those enclosing the central roundels at Woodchester and Stonesfield . |
| 15 | Condition : ‘ The types and quantities of waste accepted at the site shall not exceed the limits of its operational and storage capacity ’ . |
| 16 | Pakistan only came into existence as an independent country shortly after the end of the Second World War and consequently shares much of its cultural and rug-making heritage with India . |
| 17 | The exhibition coincides with the publication of Within Tuscany ( Viking Penguin ) , Spender 's account of his working and family life woven into chapters of historical information . |
| 18 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 19 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 20 | Then on to the spacious dining saloon with its white and gold decor , now alive with the movement of gold-braided , be-medalled uniforms alongside glamorous ladies in evening dress . |
| 21 | On July 22 the IMF approved a US$220,000,000 drawing under its compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) . |
| 22 | The executive Board approved drawings , equivalent to 468,9000,000 special drawing rights ( about US $635 million ) , under its compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) in order to make up for anticipated balance-of-payments deficits caused by higher oil prices and lower exports and Gulf remittances . |
| 23 | Chief coach Rod Carr could hardly have expected such a position at this stage of the Olympic run-up and it is a justification of the Richard Ellis elite squad system under which financial and training assistance has been concentrated on a small number of the best sailors in each class . |
| 24 | This is perhaps nowhere more clearly seen than in Inca Peru where the Inca monarch headed an authoritarian welfare state in which his monopoly of the economic surplus , along with his military and policy power , meant that the citizen looked only to him for protection from his fellow men and from hunger , want and hardship . |
| 25 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 26 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 28 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 29 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 30 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |