Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand will be an admirable opportunity for the fringe men to gain valuable international experience . |
| 2 | It took the form of an open space tapering from a broad base outside the abbey walls , northwards to a point at which he built St Peter 's church . |
| 3 | At a gallop , the amount of strain on a horse 's fore tendon is very near to its maximum capacity and any further loading leads to progressive damage to the tendon fibres resulting in extreme cases of tendon rupture . |
| 4 | Kerrier District Council 's chief services officer , John Cadman , said the ‘ incredibly intense ’ storm lasted for six hours , causing extensive damage to the ground floors of businesses and homes . |
| 5 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 6 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |
| 7 | But this is not a general suppression of the immune system , more a specific interaction between the sex hormones and Candida . |
| 8 | Many individuals also displayed a strong attachment to the Prayer-Book ceremonies associated with rites of passage : baptism , churching , marriage , and the burial of the dead . |
| 9 | The remuneration committee , consisting of all the independent directors , determines the employment terms and total remuneration of the executive directors and the amounts to be appropriated to employees through the profit sharing scheme . |
| 10 | After John 's death , Mary proved she had listened well by signing a profitable contract with the RKO studios |
| 11 | Later in the year , the Kingsley Dunham Centre was visited by the Council of NERC and by the members of the Associated Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) . |
| 12 | Marx argued , quite correctly , that any broad change in the property relations of a society would involve sharp political , if not military , struggles and that the course of such struggles could not be legislated in advance according to the blueprints of some would-be social reformer . |
| 13 | An unpublished appendix to the report details allegations of the mass murder of Jews in the Baltic states , Byelorussia , and the Ukraine during the war by the Nazis and their collaborators . |
| 14 | ‘ Now this is what 's called a tap spring , ’ and he lightly tapped his right foot along the floor boards and hopped neatly onto it , leaving his left leg raised slightly behind him . |
| 15 | This is the most controversial part of the assessment arrangements . |
| 16 | The Department of Agriculture said it had no comment to make because the closure was a private decision by the abattoir owners . |
| 17 | Furthermore , we can imagine a hypothetical case ‘ where the economic existence of the small-holding peasants is not reflected by Bonapartism . ’ |
| 18 | We are told that ‘ the economic existence of the small-holding peasants is reflected , on the political level , by the ‘ pertinent effects ’ constituted by the particular form of state of Bonapartism ’ . |
| 19 | It would have guaranteed a complete change in the way things were run at Westminster . |
| 20 | Despite strong support from the Government benches for Mr Lamont 's proposals , Mr Hughes said : ‘ The Chancellor has not met the nation 's needs and he should go without further delay before he does more damage . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When the firms were grouped according to similarity of objectives and techniques of production , and classified in order of the technical complexity of the production systems , each production system was found to be associated with a characteristic pattern of organisation . |
| 22 | The highlights for me were the climax of Britannia 's stately progress through the Fleet lines and my own personal visit to the reception for Commanding Officers on board Britannia during the evening . |
| 23 | Despite the adoption of a global data-structure , an essentially hierarchical flow of information is imposed which allows for a weak interaction between the knowledge sources . |
| 24 | What are the Government doing about the investment gap , the technology gap , the skills gap and the regional gap in the west midlands ? |
| 25 | Indeed in 1828 , as an inscription on the Spanish side of the Bréche records , the reckless Duchesse de Berry , widow of the assassinated second son of King Charles X , ascended to it , not under her own power but under that of her hired porters , who carried her to the top in a chair . |
| 26 | Inheriting a fortune on the sudden death of his father , and to the acute distress of the family trustees , Samuel Junior devoted much of his money to sustaining It and funding the activities of Michael X. It moved , first to Fitzroy Square , then to Betterton Street in Covent Garden , and later , in 1968 , to Endell Street in the same neighbourhood . |
| 27 | Though it was relatively unsuccessful it confirmed and strengthened the trade union connection with the Labour Party in much the same way as the Taff Vale judgement had acted as an annealing force between the trade unions and the Labour Representation Committee in 1901 . |
| 28 | But under all four Presidents of the Fifth Republic the state and public sector actors remained the lodestone , the reference point , of communications policy-making : the dominant political force of the day uses state patronage to fashion the communications landscape in a manner conducive to its interests . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 30 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |