Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts .
2 What we witness here is something resembling the Freudian proposition that the repressed returns via the very images , structures , and mechanisms of repression itself : the words which consummate the renewal of man , his salvation , these words return to signify the opposite of salvation which is damnation , and they signify also the desire which only damnation can acknowledge and which salvation must repress .
3 The other route , a very popular one with hardy walkers , goes along Gleann Lichd , pleasantly wooded in its lower parts and ascends along the southern side of Beinn Fhada , with striking views of the Five Sisters opposite , to a bealach from which Glen Affric is seen ahead and easily reached .
4 The US State Department attacks Israeli policies in the occupied territories .
5 National goals and regional policies for the less-favoured areas also vary and grounds for comparison are difficult to establish and may not be relevant .
6 Even if we adopt a much narrower focus and look at the specifically political institutions of the proclaimed democracies , it is plain that there is a long way to go before democratic principles are fully embodied in them .
7 The Palestine Human Rights Information Centre issued a report on Dec. 3 which detailed " the systematic use of electric shock torture " by the Israeli authorities in the occupied territories .
8 The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses .
9 As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity :
10 I have considered using the convenient two-in-one products , but have heard such conflicting views about the possible effects of these shampoo/conditioners .
11 The instability of the horizons in these solutions can easily be demonstrated in that they require very specific forms for the initial functions f(u) and g(v) .
12 The wave function contains all the information about the possible values of the dynamical variables and allows these variables to be calculated in a statistical way ; it gives only probabilities that the variables will have certain values .
13 In seeking to explore the effects of different organizational types , a particular concern must be to devise a methodology sufficiently robust to counter the argument that any emerging differences may be a corollary of the differential skills of the particular workers who happen to occupy the posts in the different teams .
14 The Likelihood of Economic Tie-ins From the Different Divisions Within the Conglomerate
15 These vehicles were mounted on six-wheel bogies , and enclosed balconies at the adjoining ends formed entrance porches with connecting gangways .
16 In practice , the economic policies of the Spanish socialists had much in common with those of the Conservatives in Britain .
17 Henderson made his reputation as a spokesman for the working classes of Belfast against the economic policies of the Unionist governments of the 1930s .
18 However , differential waveforms over the two hemispheres were recorded by Wood , Goff and Day ( 1971 ) only when their syllables required a linguistic analysis .
19 A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration .
20 Article 3 gives broad definitions of the less-favoured areas that can be assisted .
21 Saouma called for fair trade terms to allow developing countries to sell their agricultural products to the industrialized countries .
22 Much of this started by using local agricultural products as the raw materials .
23 That this radicalism was contained may have had more to do with the strength of the State in the West , together with the size , cohesion and resilience of anti-socialist groups among the middle classes and peasantry , than with any natural tendency for the working class to become ‘ integrated ’ and its aspirations attenuated .
24 Also known as Gwrageth Anoon , these beautiful blonde water-maidens live in rich palaces beneath the many lakes of Wales .
25 Selectees , in general , do not presuppose traits of their selectors ; in Arthur 's ( adj. ) sister , or Arthur ( verb ) rum , nothing positive can be stated about the semantic nature of normal fillers of the semantic slots :
26 In the Benedictine frescos there was good adherence of the painted strata in the dry areas , scaly separation in intermediate humidity zones , lack of colour , missing pieces and evidence of previous restoration attempts .
27 Against the historical unification we would stress that sex is relational , is shaped in social interaction , and can only be understood in its historical context , in terms of the cultural meanings assigned to it , and in terms of the internal , subjective meanings of the sexed individuals that emerge .
28 He has taken on possibly the most difficult directorship in the world , with unparalleled masterpieces in the huge collections , an enormous , sumptuous but dilapidated and unmodernised palace as his building , and wholly inadequate funding from the State .
29 All rooms have extensive views of the surrounding moorlands and hills .
30 The economic programmes of the left parties are found wanting everywhere .
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