Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A piece of magic from Collins settled the issue when he won a tackle and looped over a high pass for Chris Higgs to race clear for the Police 's fourth try . |
2 | It threshed this way and that , as the giant tried , uselessly , to pull free of the Trees ' cruel grip . |
3 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
4 | We were particularly interested in the practices ' subjective assessments of the impact of this change on practice management and patient care . |
5 | Effective communication , of course , is dependent on the communicators ' several abilities within the verbal language component , notably those of thinking , speaking , listening , reading and writing ( Fig. 7.3 ) . |
6 | The programme is structured in such a way that on-going evaluation is simple and results can be reflected on from time to time by the Family Development Nurse and Community Mother so that the monthly visit to the family which is the main focus of the programme for achieving goals can be adapted to each family 's level and the issues that are discussed are relevant , nonjudgemental , and supportive of the parents ' own ideas and recognises the parents ' desire to do what is best for their children . |
7 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
8 | I always felt that it was typical of the Quakers ' practical Christianity to allow their building to be so used . |
9 | Either way , the position of women reflected by the dowry system was consistent with the Asians ' new petit-bourgeois role in East Africa . |
10 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
11 | An RFL is subject to the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal , including its power to fine the RFL , to strike the name of the RFL off the register or to suspend his or her registration . |
12 | The Palm Court fountains are pyramid-shaped , following Smith 's preoccupation with the Egyptian theme that he believes appropriate to the Victorians ' far horizons . |
13 | Initially flattering for the recognition it brought , the vast and continuous bundles of fan request mail eventually proved intrusive to the artists ' private lives as their characters entered public domain . |
14 | Gynaecologists , however , will be dismayed at the authors ' apparent lack of understanding of the management of a common medical complaint . |
15 | The crowd is delighted by the gods ' high spirits and pleasure in the dance . |
16 | The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play . |
17 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
18 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |
19 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
20 | One school was so impressed by the children 's positive reactions that they completely revamped the science work in the first two years to include more social and human applications of science . |
21 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
22 | B C R executive , Hamish , is sceptical about the banks ' sudden endorsement of angels . |
23 | Knight Williams is responsible for the trusts ' overall investment strategy , while specialist fund managers ( Mercury , Schroder , Barings , James Capel , GT , Perpetual , SGTR and Whittingale ) are in charge of day-to-day management . |
24 | ‘ Are you ready to go now ? ’ he said , his voice sounding deep and harsh after the Women 's frail tones . |
25 | Meanwhile Stephen Gookey of York 's Rowntrees club was 0.25 secs short of the men 's Olympic 200 metres standard , 20.80 secs , when he finished fourth in the UK Championships last weekend . |
26 | Erm so you can see actually from this fact find , from the planning the future document , there are , there was , there is a particular interest to you erm are you , are you quite happy with the figures er sorry was it erm was it that you were more or less interested in ? |
27 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
28 | However , in other situations Customs have deemed that there is a non-monetary consideration in addition to the price paid and that VAT is therefore due on the goods ' normal selling price . |
29 | Phrases such as ‘ the ‘ boyo' body-language kept breaking through ’ are reminiscent of the tabloids ' anti-Welsh campaign against Kinnock , and it is deplorable that a once-eminent socialist writer should use them . |
30 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |