Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 2 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 3 | Also , for the past six years computers have been essential , if initially unwelcome , tools in my job , and the idea of spending leisure time absorbing even more radiation from a cathode ray tube does n't appeal . |
| 4 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 5 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 6 | The men claimed that for the last six weeks women and children had been ‘ assaulted and humiliated ’ during raids on houses in loyalist areas . |
| 7 | For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation rates . |
| 8 | For the next six years doors opened and slammed . |
| 9 | For the next two years businessmen and governments saw inflation , not the threat of recession , as the real risk . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the 19th century the condition of the agricultural workers was desperately poor and for the next forty years wages did not improve . |
| 11 | During the past 15 years patients have come to depend on the day hospital service . |
| 12 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 13 | During the next four nights Schools Sports Editor PAUL O'BRIEN looks at the prospects for the Games and the individual sports involved . |
| 14 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 15 | Around 200 pumps are now in place and during the next three years villagers will learn to maintain them . |
| 16 | During the next 12 hours observations of Mr Reynolds ' vital signs were gradually reduced in frequency as they became stable and returned almost to pre-operative levels . |
| 17 | During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics . |
| 18 | During the last two days labourers had climbed every local coconut tree to find enough nuts at the precise stage when the juice starts turning into flesh . |
| 19 | The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages . |
| 20 | During the last two years requests from schools to visit the farm increased by almost 50 per cent and this convinced the couple that a proper arable trail was needed . |
| 21 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |
| 22 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 23 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 24 | BROUGHTON HALL schoolmates Dawn Adams and Clare Duncan produced one of the fastest 1500 metres races ever seen among under-15 girls in Britain during a high standard TSB Merseyside Schools Championships at Bebington on Saturday . |
| 25 | The Prudential was first formed in 1848 and has grown to become one of the largest financial services groups in the world . |
| 26 | It ends with the commissioning of the splendid new Archives Rooms in Darbishire — the gift of Dr Damon Wells — which will enable us to make better provision for both collections and scholars in future . |
| 27 | The Sport and Recreation Department offers some of the finest indoor sports facilities and outdoor playing fields in the province . |
| 28 | Jim Ogg , research and development officer with the Royal London Hospital care of the elderly department and Tower Hamlets SSD , has direct experience of the many ethical barriers researchers face when trying to obtain highly personal and sensitive information from those cared for about physical abuse . |
| 29 | It is also clear that the renewal and extension of the non-proliferation treaty , hopefully leading in due course to a comprehensive test-ban treaty , depends crucially on the actions of the existing nuclear weapons states . ’ |
| 30 | The total annihilation of the 14 Minor Counties teams in this year 's first round of the NatWest Bank Trophy highlights the need for a long-overdue reform of the system . |