Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 2 | She hesitated for a moment , then said , ‘ I met Sid Watkins in Berkeley today and he asked me if I would like to go to the Licensed Victuallers Dinner at the Princes Hotel with him tonight . |
| 3 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 4 | Brian Toon , the public affairs officer for the Masters of Foxhounds Association , is also sceptical about such stories . |
| 5 | Most participants also agreed that , when fish stocks crossed the boundary between a 20-mile zone and international waters , the coastal state 's conservation and management measures should also apply to the high seas portion of the stocks . |
| 6 | For example , local authority workers , like myself , to the public services section to the energies and utilities section . |
| 7 | Lord Mayor , I D that the item be debated at this meeting , without first it receiving report from Social Services Committee on the grounds that the matter is urgent in the meaning of the section three one of the Local Authority and Social Services Act of 1970 . |
| 8 | Comparisons are with restated figures to reflect the acquisition of Advanced Telecommunications Corp on a pooling-of-interests basis on December 1992 . |
| 9 | Whereas symbolic meanings inhere in the signs themselves , indexical meanings must be achieved by the language user associating symbols with some relevant aspect of the world outside language , in the situation or in the mind . |
| 10 | Among the hi-tech solutions reminders of the consequences of the problems . |
| 11 | Similarly , where in different strata of the same excavation or in separate sites discontinuities in the styles of artefacts occur , these indicate that different manufacturing communities are involved . |
| 12 | Besides many degrees combining History with other Arts subjects , joint honours degrees with the Departments of Politics and Sociology are offered . |
| 13 | Our lengthening hair and use of vibrant colour contrasted markedly with the accepted plain-clothes form of the detectives , so that the drug-squad style became a marker of cultural anomaly . |
| 14 | Even when there are no covenants by a buyer , if the purchase is in joint names execution by the buyers is necessary to commit them to the terms on which they hold the property as set out in the transfer . |
| 15 | In his book The Future of Christian Broadcasting in Europe , Canon Peter Elvy looks beyond the current debates surrounding media legislation and works towards a longer-term communications strategy for the churches . |
| 16 | On the part-time farms 18% of the wives had off-farm jobs , varying from 18 hours per week to full-time employment . |
| 17 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 18 | If equation ( 3.32 ) were the true model , it may now be clear why ordinary least-squares estimators of the parameters in equation ( 3.30 ) will lead to biased estimators of the coefficients in equation ( 3.32 ) . |
| 19 | Courtship in Baldersdale had well-defined rules Romance between the children of established families and hired hands was firmly banned . |
| 20 | She brings us to a town where the sky is full of burning , the old synagogue about to be engulfed ; white doves wheel round the rooftops , beat their wings , drive off the flames . |
| 21 | TV pictures showed Police Commissioner Eugene " Bull " Conor ordering the use of snarling police dogs , high-pressure hoses and electric cattle prods against the demonstrators . |
| 22 | This evidence from the southern suburbs clearly indicates an arrangement of elongated properties end-on to the frontages housing a variety of activities , but apart from a more generous allocation of space , little differentiates the associated buildings from their counterparts in the central area . |
| 23 | This study was approved by the Human Studies Subcommittee at the Veterans Administration Hospital , Hines , IL . |
| 24 | The suit was filed in New York by human rights groups on the women 's behalf . |
| 25 | Numerous Iraqis , Palestinians and others became victims of human rights violations at the hands of Kuwaiti government forces and armed Kuwaiti civilians , particularly during the four months of martial law following the Iraqi withdrawal . |
| 26 | An anonymous respondent , similarly reticent about details of search firms ' names , agreed that ‘ large buys prestige in the eyes of candidates ’ , but warned that using these firms ‘ tends to restrict the choice of employer ’ from which to hunt and find candidates . |
| 27 | Now he could see only a few shadowy figures half-glimpsed through the mists of the cooking fumes . |
| 28 | Steven Clark , the leading points winner in the boys ' event over the LTA 's 114 and Under Indoor Winter Series of tournaments , went down with appendicitis two days before the latest tournament , played at the Gosling Sports Park during March . |
| 29 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 30 | Lake Hula and the surrounding wetlands once covered some 400 square kilometres south of the sources of the River Jordan , supporting a unique ecosystem in which tropical and temperate species lived together . |