Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Administration ( CIPFA ) published a consultative document on performance indicators in 1984 and Circular 7/88 on LMS states that LEAs should develop ‘ performance indicators for the financial and wider management of the governing bodies of schools with delegated budgets ’ and that these should be ‘ based on the indicators used by the schools themselves ’ . |
| 2 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 3 | Last night we camped a metre short of the border , a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes . |
| 4 | Also in 1965 the Environmental Science Services Administration ( ESSA ) was instituted in the United States and its concern with the interactions among air , sea and earth and between the upper and lower atmosphere embraces the scope of physical geography , although a physical geographer was not significantly involved in the early stages ( Hare , 1966 ) . |
| 5 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 6 | The unspoken truth lay between the older and younger woman like some tangible wedge , driving them further and further apart . |
| 7 | Venture capitalists ' optimism or otherwise about the medium and longer term tends to be governed to a degree by the number and quality of the deals on offer . |
| 8 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 9 | A breeding colony of the required or higher health status is needed to provide foster mothers . |
| 10 | The basic modern administrative units broadly correspond to the parishes , manors , tithings and townships of the medieval and later landscape . |
| 11 | The standing of the University in terms of both the quality of its teaching and the significance of its research must be viewed in the light of the Further and Higher Education ( Scotland ) Act of March 1992 . |
| 12 | Excellent progress is being made with our plans , which are the subject of the Further and Higher Education Bill currently before Parliament , to give colleges independence from local authority control . |
| 13 | Tuesday 26 November — — Second Reading of the Further and Higher Education ( Scotland ) Bill . |
| 14 | Amendments made : No. 82 , in page 59 , line 34 , at end insert — ( ) In section 65B ( provision for recorded children who have ceased to be of school age ) after subsection ( 6 ) there shall be inserted the following subsection — ( 6A ) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph ( c ) of subsection ( 6 ) above , the reference in that paragraph to any other body shall include a reference to the board of management of a college of further education ( within the meaning of Part I of the Further and Higher Education ( Scotland ) Act 1992 ) making provision from which , in the opinion of the authority , the child might benefit . |
| 15 | In section 11(1) of the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 ( training and occupation of the mentally handicapped ) — ( a ) after the words ’ operation of ’ there shall be inserted ’ ( a ) ’ ; and ( b ) after the word ’ mind ) ’ there shall be inserted the words or ( b ) section 1 of the Further and Higher Education ( Scotland ) Act 1992 ( which imposes a duty on the secretary of State to secure the provision of adequate and efficient further education in Scotland ) . |
| 16 | Government legislation for futher and higher education has made its mark in the form of implementation of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ( and associated legislation in Scotland and Wales ) . |
| 17 | Communist influence in the ILP was growing and although the ILP leadership remained hostile to Communism , there seemed to be opportunities for greatly expanding the Communist Party at the expense of the older and larger party . |
| 18 | I am not myself an advocate of the Friedmanite arithmetical standard for money , but of the older and stronger rule of gold convertibility , the gold standard . |
| 19 | In some of the larger and older predator fish concentrations of methyl mercury can be very high need , and of course these are precisely the fish that are most sort after by the fishermen and by their customers . |
| 20 | Volkswagen has fitted bigger engines to compensate for the extra weight of the stronger and safer structure of the latest version . |
| 21 | I had dreams of a greater and better life , and above all , I wanted to do more . |
| 22 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 23 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 24 | I have consistently supported the idea of a higher and further education council for our institutions in Scotland . |
| 25 | In a pendentive method of construction the triangular spaces between the square section and the circular base of the hemisphere are built as if they are parts of a lower and larger dome so that their section is like that of an arch carried across the diagonal of the square space to be covered . |
| 26 | With rhythmic variations 11 and 76 years long now identified in the measurements of solar diameter , it seems straightforward to interpret the longer trend as part of a similar but longer cycle , which would pose no real problems for astrophysicists ' and geologists ' faith in the long-term stability of our nearest star . |
| 27 | Alf and Bessie lived in Cricklewood , and would receive visits from time to time from Bessie 's sister Minnie who , having worked alongside her father at Curry Rivel School for a while , later became headmistress of a similar but smaller establishment in Newton St Loe , Somerset . |
| 28 | While it is conceivable that bribes can be used to secure the sale of a better and cheaper product , the more general effect is to shift the balance of business away from the most efficient producer and in favour of the most corrupt producer . |
| 29 | Practice can doubtless yield ‘ theories ’ of a limited or weaker kind , but once such theories are seen to apply more generally or with more force , they tend to become dignified with the name of ‘ model ’ , ‘ theory ’ or even ‘ paradigm ’ . |
| 30 | The elephant 's belly heaved up and down rhythmically and slow , and I floated up and down with it , and I could hear its great heart-beat like the heart-beat of a new and gentler world . |