Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 The result is that the surviving text of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella looks quite different from Dame Sirith : it looks like an anticlerical play .
2 Mr. Wakeham : The Refreshment Department retains the services of a qualified nutritional adviser on an ad hoc basis , whose fees are paid from the trading account .
3 E.coli RNA polymerase , deleted in the C-terminal part of its α-subunit , interacts differently with the cAMP-CRP complex at the lac P1 and at the gal P1 promoter
4 ‘ Weak ’ stimuli , activating only a few fibres , fail to induce LTP not because insufficient L-glutamate is released to activate NMDA receptors , but because the level of depolarization provided by the weak input does not produce an adequate reduction of the Mg 2+ block .
5 His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) .
6 M. de Parville , scientific editor of the Journal des Débats , examined the case in 1914 and concluded that the account given by captain and crew was ‘ worthy of belief ’ .
7 A clear example of the ultra vires rule is set out in the following case .
8 So we see the emergence without any express authority of an ad hoc national police force , co-ordinating the use of highly trained riot police and operating aggressive and uncompromising new tactics .
9 Waged on the high ground in the Montagne de Reims , between Épernay and the Marne to the south and Reims to the north , there followed one of the most gruelling and protracted battles in human history , the line of trenches moving barely a hundred yards throughout four long and bloody years .
10 A vinaigre d'alcool will give a different taste from a vinaigre de vin vieux .
11 Gide was perceived as having been too closely allied to the psychological novel in the French tradition of the roman d'analyse .
12 ‘ He has this so-called reputation of the enfant terrible , but reputations can be the making of players as much as their undoing .
13 In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the theory found its doctrinal expression in the ultra vires rule .
14 This is associated with the anomalous position of the G10 5' phosphate , which is displaced by 2 from its expected position in regular B-form DNA ( Fig. 3 b ) .
15 A colour brochure I picked up in the hall speaks of the ‘ 27 acres of secluded grounds with magnificent views over the Moray Firth and the Ross-shire hills beyond … imposing combination of Georgian and Scottish Baronial architecture … four course table d'hôte menu of very high class plus an à la carte menu including a range of steaks charcoal grilled … ’ : no mention of David Thomson .
16 In modern conditions the only remaining peg on which to hang the concession theory 's claim that the state has a special right of intervention in company affairs is the idea that since separate personality and limited liability are benefits conferred by the state , the state is entitled to intervene to safeguard the public interest as a quid pro quo .
17 In the central provinces , therefore , neither sturdy yeomen with a solid stake in the status quo , nor landless peasants were destined to emerge .
18 Big rollered curls and sleek , straight hair by the Avant Garde team , Canada
19 Women notice that greater attention is being paid to their concerns , but they see little real change in the status quo .
20 Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " .
21 Adorno 's critique , therefore , and in particular the critique of the Culture Industry is mounted from the increasingly beleaguered and restricted field of the avant garde , and it is this , in part , which wins it the current disapproval of the more enthusiastically affirmative , apparently democratic , or outright populist approaches to popular culture .
22 I understand him to say that if there is a democratic vote for the status quo , it will be honoured , as will a democratic vote for independence .
23 Just as the Single European Act gave formal recognition to several existing developments in such areas as the environment , so does the Treaty on European Union put an official stamp on the de facto extension of Community powers in such fields as public health , consumer protection and tourism .
24 A warm welcome at the De La Ville
25 The award was presented by the Prince of Wales at the Annual Meeting of the per cent club , which I 've already mentioned , and it was during nineteen ninety , and it won the private sector small to medium size company , or companies subsidiary sector category .
26 Hankering after the old order is congenial to some minds , but seeking to revert by force or civil unrest to the status quo ante is not .
27 For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute .
28 On Oct. 5 the United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , announced that the pound sterling would enter the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System as of Oct. 8 , at a central rate against the deutsche mark of DM2.95 .
29 Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 .
30 The First Deputy Prime Minister 's husband replied in his standard way , larding his lengthy answer with the typical verbiage of the langue de bois : ‘ I will answer you starting with a more general presentation of the mechanism of societal government , ’ he began , before launching himself on about ten minutes ' worth of the following : ‘ A principle of collective leadership operates in the Romanian socialist society …
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