Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically , they are European institutions carrying on home-regulated investment business in the UK for the purposes of the Banking Co-ordination ( Second Council Directive ) Regulations 1992 ( the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 2 | Mr MacIver states that a study of local authority economic activities carried out last year showed the role of councils was very significant . |
| 3 | Rich Athenians set up small factories in which the chief , but not the sole , source of labour was slaves . |
| 4 | Ad hoc groups like the North-South and Israel/Palestine Working Groups head up different projects with a style that makes for continuity . |
| 5 | The fact that political authorities rule over whole communities itself dictates some of the ways in which the question of the justification of such authorities should be formulated . |
| 6 | The Council of Ministers has indeed taken specific steps to root out such discrimination . |
| 7 | Twenty-four pairs of painted lips let out long-drawn gasps and then broke into speech . |
| 8 | Second-year units take up specific issues such as nostalgia for lost innocence and order , the literature of political commitment , the relationship between artistic form and cultural change , and the significant emergence of women as producers of literature . |
| 9 | But with about 4000 MRI scans carried out each year radiologists insist they 'll be allocated to whoever needs them most . |
| 10 | Some old dears coming out bleeding apathy ! |
| 11 | The three popular dailies took up this theme in their inside-page stories with almost identical headlines : Woman juror hits out at child killer , HOW CAN THEY LET THIS ANIMAL LIVE ? |
| 12 | Comparative analysis is useful not only between different jobs but between different surveyors carrying out similar tasks . |
| 13 | Some have romantic visions of crouched and muffled figures dragging log-laden sledges through a savage landscape of snow and ice ; frost-bearded Vikings with massive axes , round great fires of pine logs ; or raw-boned Northerners squatting over faggot-heated porridge pots . |
| 14 | LIKE the fox and the hedgehog , two of the world 's great museums are resorting to strikingly different tactics to shake off unwelcome predators . |
| 15 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |
| 16 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
| 17 | The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets . |
| 18 | There is a strong ‘ old boy network ’ among German banks and industry , and this is reflected in the high degree of control which the German banks exercise over German industry through their shareholdings . |
| 19 | Banks of guards , telephones TV monitors and electronic friskers kept out unwelcome visitors and made the grounds secure for the Shah , and his wife , their children , their dogs and their courtiers . |
| 20 | And when he tried transparent tricks to pull up vital business buried at the end of the list , he found himself making a number of enemies in the group . |
| 21 | There is even a bird-enticing mere built especially for them , with islands , and high banks to keep out unwanted humans . |
| 22 | For instance , some British libraries take out institutional membership with Law notes , to give themselves access to a quick loan service for expensive textbooks in law . |
| 23 | In many instances social workers picked up practical points such as those mentioned above , and dealt with them immediately : arrangements were hastily made to provide counselling for those young people who were unaware of the dangers of AIDS and the importance of using contraceptives . |
| 24 | The resultant destabilization of covalent bonds brings about structural rearrangements on a timescale of 1–10 picoseconds , which under some circumstances can be followed by material leaving the surface . |
| 25 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 26 | A possible basis for the contrast was suggested : proper names single out principal protagonists in narratives , and so , even in the simplest of materials , will tend to put the named character in a role which is likely to be different from that played by a character introduced through a noun . |
| 27 | Attention will mainly be directed to the towering mass of Middleton Fell on the west side of the valley , very steep slopes ruling out any thought of ascent ; Barbon High Fell , rising on the east , is also uninviting although easier of access . |
| 28 | Recognising , however , that many organisations may allow different users to carry out different activities , LIFESPAN allows users to be assigned one or more access privileges in connection with these varied activities . |
| 29 | Recognising , however , that many organisations may allow different users to carry out different activities , LIFESPAN allows users to be assigned one or more access privileges in connection with these varied activities . |
| 30 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |