Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversial trial of human rights activists |
| 2 | AI also sent urgent appeals to the governments of the United States , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in April , urging them to ensure that Iraqi refugees then under the control of United States-led coalition forces were guaranteed effective and durable protection against human rights violations by Iraqi Government forces . |
| 3 | Just as the sociolinguist prizes spontaneous , unmonitored speech , the professional photographer of human subjects prizes unposed photographs ; but most people are very chary of allowing themselves to be photographed . |
| 4 | BRITAIN HAS been instructed by the European Community to suspend immediately key provisions of the 1988 Merchant Shipping Act , designed to repel a 100- strong armada of Spanish vessels fishing in United Kingdom waters . |
| 5 | Clients ' broad support for capable women lawyers emerged in the Dalton survey . |
| 6 | He has had strong support from social services directors who want to make community care a reliable and safe option for clients . |
| 7 | Her remarks were recorded before events in Tianamen Square and it was clear by the end of the programme that the proper function of current affairs television was less of a live debate inside the country than it had been . |
| 8 | That was because we had a sensible framework of industrial relations laws . |
| 9 | In addition , their training in the scientific method and their daily exposure to clinical problems results in the development of ideas and the formulation of questions and hypotheses . |
| 10 | And were they based on areas as well , did you have like a different gang for different streets sort of thing ? |
| 11 | At a glittering prize-giving dinner in Liverpool 's Adelphi Hotel it beat 150 other company journals to win the British Association of Industrial Editors Gold Award for an unprecedented second time . |
| 12 | PROPOSALS by the BBC to make a drama-documentary about the Orkney child abuse affair have been criticised by a British Association of Social Workers chief . |
| 13 | The noise of the exploding mortars in the wood and the accompanying rattle of small arms fire drowned the rest of Jock 's words . |
| 14 | Meanwhile in a speech to the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants Sir Adrian Cadbury said the view among some critics that his committee 's proposals on non-executive directors were divisive for boards stemmed from a misunderstanding of its terms of reference which were limited to financial aspects and did not touch on the wider responsibility of all directors for general governance . |
| 15 | His progress up the ladder of the Street was rapid , from the Daily Mail to Associate Features Editor at the Express and then Features Editor on the London Evening News . |
| 16 | Baker presented detailed proposals on ending China 's suspected transfer of nuclear weapons technology and arms sales to the Middle East , and its accession to international agreements on arms control . |
| 17 | She also pays due attention to the different positioning of black women artists within feminist art practice . |
| 18 | In Goldfinger , when the plan to nuke Fort Knox goes awry , the glitter-loving head of Auric Industries machine-guns his own men . |
| 19 | A 19-day strike by Indian Airlines pilots is starting to cause chaos on the sub-continent with no signs of management acceding to a list of 14 demands . |
| 20 | If each local community offered a different menu of public goods expenditures , then each individual could be thought to select the local community that provided a level of output corresponding to his or her preferences . |
| 21 | The Act was passed in response to the situation of conflict which had developed between fascists and anti-fascists in the East End , but had a wider purpose — to exert greater social control through increased police powers and the threat to public order posed by political extremism in general . |
| 22 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 23 | For the armchair golfer there 's the definitive guide to great links golf , with photos from the game 's most respected photographer Brian Morgan — the Classic Golf Links Of Great Britain And Ireland by Donald Steel ( £25 , Chapmans ) . |
| 24 | It is a measure of the tension and complexities of our contemporary society that the police have gradually been transformed from a universal corpus of ordinary police officers performing all manner of general duties , including public order maintenance , to one which now in part approaches the quasi-military-order police model of continental Europe and elsewhere . |
| 25 | Carelessness when cigarette- or pipe-smoking is a well documented cause of accidents and in many work places , smoking is now forbidden in designated areas because of the fire hazard ( quite apart from public concern about smoking-related diseases p. 131 ) . |
| 26 | The 10–10 draw against Hong Kong on the first day of the tournament upset their plans and despite their brave performance against eventual winners Namibia — at one point Zimbabwe were leading 10–0 — they went back home empty-handed . |
| 27 | A factor related to the above is the relatively high incidence of complex verbs phrases in the extract ( 59–62 ) : unlike the other two writers , James makes substantial use of modal and aspectual auxiliaries in such phrases as " would be " , " should n't catch " , could find " , " would have liked " , " had been invited " , " had been " . |
| 28 | On Sept. 9 a Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister , Vladimir Petrovsky , had signalled the Soviet Union 's willingness to drop its opposition to the suspension of the unanimity rule , maintaining that foreign concern over human rights issues did not constitute interference in domestic affairs . |
| 29 | They said : " It is this crystallization of the elements of the village in accordance with a definitely organised life of mutual relations respect or service , which gives the appearance of organic whole the home of a community , to what would otherwise be a mere agglomeration of building " ( 1901 p 92 ) . |
| 30 | By the end of the day , Brigadier Horsfield , the commander of 24th Brigade , had the equivalent of half a brigade with tank and air support with which to reinforce the small Kuwaiti army in defensive positions north of the city on the Mutlah ridge . |