Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman is right about the benefits from civilianisation . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the merits of competition . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right about the revenues from North sea oil taxation . |
| 4 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 5 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 6 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 7 | Norman Tebbit , his blood pressure returned to near normal after the frustrations of debate , was exercising his somewhat malign charm over a group of columnists . |
| 8 | While you will not want to overstate the coercive nature of a witness summons or subpoena you must be clear about the consequences of non-attendance . |
| 9 | Mr Leigh-Pemberton , however , sounded a stark warning to the Cabinet not to take risks with inflation : ‘ We have to be very clear about the objectives of policy . |
| 10 | The Daimler is entirely adequate for the needs of Mirror Group Newspapers ' current chairman , Ernie Burrington , says Ted . |
| 11 | However , precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level , they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition . |
| 12 | You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme . |
| 13 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 14 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
| 15 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 16 | Stanford University Hospital is the Hippocratic show-piece of America , whose government-sponsored research surges forward free of the confines of budget . |
| 17 | MILLIONAIRE composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is top of the pops with tourist chiefs . |
| 18 | Let me guess , they placed bets with bookmakers about who would be top of the charts at Christmas . |
| 19 | Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks , and the days when those involved in motoring and other forms of transport could make light of the risks to life have now long passed , as various air , sea , rail , and road disasters have occurred . |
| 20 | To watch him then was such a mingled joy of yearning and pity that sometimes , frightened of her waking thoughts but more afraid of the nightmares of sleep , she would carry her night-light into his bedroom and crouch by the cot for an hour or more , her eyes fixed on his sleeping face , her restlessness soothed by his peace . |
| 21 | The symbolic reproduces this imaginary in discrete , regulated entities — small , discontinuous , easily consumable like the bits of information on a computer screen , like the items in the supermarket , like the small , framed and mirrored segments of the glass-skinned skyscrapers that offer us gleaming reflections of our lives from moment to moment in the high-income , high-tech regions of the American urban environment . |
| 22 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 23 | This approach to marketing is called the ‘ marketing concept ’ and its perspective is radically different from the approaches of production , product and sales-orientated organizations . |
| 24 | In what way was the economic environment which fostered search in Britain different from the preconditions of headhunting in the USA ? |
| 25 | The effect of the load is probably somewhat different from the variations of pressure set up by breaking waves , which may dislodge jointed blocks . |
| 26 | It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject . |
| 27 | I think I was just miserable , and it was far easier to believe the reason was something I could do something about , rather than face the fact that my depression was very complicated , based on things like my family not having much money , and feeling very isolated and different from the kids at school . |
| 28 | panel recommended an increase in expenditure on this item of work next year , an increase in one point six million pounds to two million pounds , we ca n't say categorically that , that will happen until we 've had our allocations both sanctions borrowing for , for next year , it is a wish of interest of hands make clear in the comments on appendix A in this paper against the figure of one points being aroused that the |
| 29 | The continuation of inequality is still clear in the fields of income , housing , wealth , and employment but most of all in the protestant — loyalist alliance 's embargo on the minority ever holding political office . |
| 30 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |