Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [coord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to this assertion of the erosion of the traditional ‘ apprenticeship ’ system for musicians and of the economic harm done to some younger performers is often added a third reason for denigrating recorded music . |
| 2 | The Lord Chancellor has publicly invited the profession to put forward its own proposals for savings and in the little time allowed , the following package has now been put to the Lord Chancellor . |
| 3 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 4 | One organisation quoted in the survey did provide disturbance payments for recruits but at a reduced level to that given under its relocation policy . |
| 5 | The Japanese will be offered greater access to Europe , on condition that they open their domestic markets — not only for cars but for a whole range of industrial and service sectors — to European businessmen . |
| 6 | Used for pelmets and in a finer quality for curtain headings . |
| 7 | If you 're talking about youngsters and in a modern i in then in fact abbreviations like that are quite commonly used now in narrative and dialogue and of course in dialogue I mean |
| 8 | The pope , as St Peter 's heir and bishop of Rome , needed episcopal orders — the highest orders of the Church which gave the bishop power to ordain priests , confirm members of the Church and bless the holy oils which were used for ordinations and for the sick . |
| 9 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 10 | In addition , the analysis indicated that each of the main functional divisions ( ie operational , support and business ) should be at executive level so that all aspects of College activities would be reflected in the development of policies and in the overall management of the College . |
| 11 | Measures to promote more flexible forms of retirement — at a range of ages and on a part-time as well as full-time basis — and to outlaw age discriminatory employment and redundancy practices would therefore be an essential part of this strategy . |
| 12 | The Labour Party 's housing policy emphasized the development of council estates generally on the edge of cities or within the various new towns where land was much cheaper . |
| 13 | He disappears for a minute into the shrine and returns with two pairs of bells and with a yellow ikā marked between his eyes . |
| 14 | Some applications companies may also be enamoured by the possibility of using the NetWare Loadable Module to support demo licensing , which replaces ‘ cripple-ware ’ by a full copy of the application that will only run a limited number of times or for a limited length of time . |
| 15 | I am coming more and more to the view that the evolution of life , like the evolution of continents and of the stratigraphical column in general , has been a very episodic affair , with short " happenings " interrupting long periods of nothing much in particular . |
| 16 | In passing , it is also important to note that the practice in some Health Authorities of issuing annual financial reports in addition to these statutory accounts was recognized by the Manual as voluntary reports , complementing the Statement of Accounts and outside the formal external audit . |
| 17 | He was vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he served on many university and Health Service committees as chairman . |
| 18 | Even the most purely agricultural villages had a handful of craftsmen and in a few parishes , notably Spratton , Moulton and Hardingstone , between 40 and 60 per cent of those liable for duty were employed in non-agricultural pursuits for the major part of their time . |
| 19 | Many kings in the past have kept collections of animals and in the 12th Century A.D. King Henry I founded the first British zoo . |
| 20 | His lectures became notable and popular ; he had a command of words and of the crisp phrase . |
| 21 | As to the amount left for food and clothing after rent and a more flexible sum for heat had been deducted , wives tended to act as the buffer against the needs of husbands and to a lesser extent children . |
| 22 | Since then , much has been learnt about the structure and properties of proteins and about the active sites of enzymes . |
| 23 | There are ancient passageways full of shops and in the old , Moorish quarter there is a market . |
| 24 | He was knighted in 1932 and was subsequently made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Debates on Europe in the Assemblée Nationale are attended by a mere handful of deputés and after the dramatic debate in Westminster in June 1991 , Jacques Delors remarked that only the British were discussing Europe properly , adding that he wished the other countries would do the same . |
| 26 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 27 | The door to Raynor 's room was down a flight of steps and through a narrow archway . |
| 28 | Reached by flights of steps and through the terraced garden , La Campanella is a fascinating small property in an elevated position above the main road in the centre of Taormina town . |
| 29 | He made his way along a footpath flanked by spacious lawns and spectacularly colourful flowerbeds … rumoured to contain plastic flowers to ensure a year-round display … , up a flight of steps and through the double doors of the tri-star-shaped glass and aluminium building . |
| 30 | When he had eaten , Selkirk returned and tossed his possessions at him ; Corbett gathered them up and followed Selkirk up rows of steps and into a small , darkened chamber . |