Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although I fully understand why my right hon. Friend can not attend the conference of Parliamentarians , will she tell the House now whether the Government support the recent call by Mr. Robert McNamara for a global commission on population in preparation for the 1994 United Nations conference on population ? |
| 2 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 3 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 4 | This approaches the highest transverse velocity so far directly measured ( PSR2224+65 ) but is less than velocities of 1,700 and 2,300kms -1 inferred for the two young pulsars PSR1800–21 ( W30 ; G8.7–0.1 ) , and PSR1757–24 ( G5.4–1.2 ) , respectively . |
| 5 | Evans , captain for the ninth time on his 32nd appearance , enjoys recalling the moment he scored the Test series-clinching try for the 1989 British Lions Down Under . |
| 6 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I should emphasise that this result holds despite there being no interaction between the two separated particles A and B , and no connection between the two instruments required to make the measurements on the two particles . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , the National Council of Social Service submitted a wide-ranging document summarizing the principal issues : the deficiencies in existing pensions coverage ( such as the continued operation of means-testing through the 1940 supplementary pensions scheme ) , the urgent need for better medical assistance for pensioners outside the Public Assistance Committee services , the lack of institutional provision , and so on . |
| 10 | Long jumper Anthony Mason , of Ipswich Harriers , cleared seven metres for the first time in his career to smash the junior men 's record by 34 centimetres , and 16-year-old Keith Davis shaved a tenth of a second off the under-17 400 metres record with a time of 52.0 seconds . |
| 11 | They argue new laws are needed as modern technology has made a mockery of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act with violent pornography easily ordered by telephone or beamed in by satellite , making enforcement of the law almost impossible . |
| 12 | Doubts about their availability arose last week , when the German Hockey Board announced an alteration to the Bundesliga season because of the 1994 European Nations Cup . |
| 13 | Of the four terminal variables V i , I i , V o , I o , any two may be regarded as independent and the other two may then be determined or expressed in terms of them . |
| 14 | To estimate the relative frequencies of the four allelic variants cp26-cp29 in P. falciparum in The Gambia , DNA was analysed from samples collected from 156 children with acute malaria . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Under the terms of the 1986 Disabled Persons Act , the social services department must assess the needs for day services and services at home of people who are disabled . |
| 17 | In the case of Britain , Wedderburn ( 1974 , p. 31 ) notes that the failure of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act , many of whose legalistic provisions had US antecedents , ‘ might serve as a warning against over simple enthusiasm for the translation of developments from other countries into the British framework ’ . |
| 18 | It 's part of the thirty six hectares chairman but it 's only a seven hectare site . |
| 19 | For eight of the 13 partial responders treamtent was stopped at week 24 and viral replication rebounded to pretreatment values . |
| 20 | So he came down to the vestibule , where the three doors were , and under the sills of the two great doors light shone , warm and enticing , and the third was behind a musty leather curtain . |
| 21 | Hughes points to a con junction ( appearance in the same point of the sky ) of the two major planets Jupiter and Saturn in 7 BC , a reasonable year for Christ 's birth . |
| 22 | Ventura for Windows is one of the two leading Windows DTP packages , the other being PageMaker . |
| 23 | Glashow , Salam and Ward were thus able to show in 1959 that taking g equal to the electric charge e gave the mass M w in terms of the two fundamental constants e and Gv , in the same way that Maxwell demonstrated that the velocity of light was given in terms of the two fundamental constants of electricity and magnetism . |
| 24 | His job was to enforce the modest provisions of the 1882 Ancient Monuments Protection Act , which tried to prevent vandalism or wholesale destruction of ancient British sites , Stonehenge among them . |
| 25 | DR BARNARD declined to use the services of the hundred young police constables offered by the Thames Valley Police in the search for clues on the road and the verges . |
| 26 | The flag-draped coffin of Musician Richard ‘ Taff ’ Jones , 27 , one of the 10 Royal Marines bandsmen killed by IRA bombers at Deal , Kent , being carried from the barracks church , St Michael and All Angels , after a joint funeral service for him and Musician Bob Simmonds , 34 . |
| 27 | But , as The Scotsman 's survey of six of the eight Scottish police forces reveals , the increase in serious crime is not confined to stabbings . |
| 28 | For this year 's season of the 1991 Scottish Trials Championships , Alan is now in sixth position and hopeful , although modest about improving his chances to reach the top three . |
| 29 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |
| 30 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |