Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In April 1990 the town had 28 empty offices but now the figure stands at 52 , while the number of vacant shops has risen from 20 to 46 , not including 68 shops under construction at the Cornmill centre . |
| 32 | It is proposed to extend the car parking facilities with improved amenities and probably a café replacing the old caravan snack bar . |
| 33 | In this sense , animals ( and we might add primitive peoples and even the environment ) are sui generis ; they are perfect of their kind . |
| 34 | This has the apparently anomalous result that both the policeman and the defendant are using force lawfully . |
| 35 | ( e ) Bedding wall plates — rate per linear m or alternatively a lump sum item . |
| 36 | Marsh observed that companies tend to retain the services of their financial advisers over extended periods and therefore the underwriting is but one of many such financial services . |
| 37 | He was joined by a young Londoner , Jonathan Goodchild , who rapidly moved from being Sharp 's assistant to art director in his own right , leaving Sharp a clear run as perhaps the underground 's most innovative illustrator . |
| 38 | He tried to distance the party from the question of public ownership but then the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , acknowledged the possibility of private Scottish companies operating under a Labour government . |
| 39 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 40 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 41 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 42 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 43 | I thought of her walking along the pavement and crossing that street in the rain at the back of the British Museum and then the car . |
| 44 | The fleshly temptations of porn pose a threat to public morality and so the law steps in . |
| 45 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 46 | There was steady light drizzle and virtually no wind but the ebb carried them comfortably down the channel to the first turn in front of the clubhouse , after which the doldrums set in . |
| 47 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 48 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 49 | His fingers felt the division between the old floorboards and then the cross-cut which marked the edge of a trapdoor . |
| 50 | Antiracists , on the other hand , will have to move beyond their reductive conceptions of culture and their fear of cultural difference as simply a source of division and weakness in the struggle against racism . |
| 51 | I agree with my hon. Friend that perhaps a moral can be drawn from that . |
| 52 | It must have very clear , fresh water and therefore the water should be changed very frequently , and great care should be taken not to allow algae growth . |
| 53 | the broken metal and then the steam roller was back and fore on it and It was quite a good surface you know , but |
| 54 | The Conservative commitment is both to the re-creation of our civic pride and also the preservation and integrity of our rural heritage , founded on the core industry of agriculture . |
| 55 | 5. such work will also help pupils approach the diversity of religious beliefs in an open and non-dogmatic way without succumbing to the relativism which tends to regard different beliefs as just a matter of opinion . |
| 56 | Dave served in both the New Zealand and British Armies and then the enforcement branch of the New Zealand Wildlife Service . |
| 57 | In the case of inferior courts , that is , courts of a lower status than the High Court , such as the justices of the peace , it was recognised that their learning and understanding of the law might sometimes be imperfect and require correction by the High Court and so the rule evolved that certiorari was available to correct an error of law of an inferior court . |
| 58 | There is clear evidence that both the pervasiveness and seriousness of soccer violence have been exaggerated : ‘ The plain fact is , the great majority of spectators who attend football matches are unlikely to ever witness an instance of personal assault let alone be the victim of one ’ ( Melnick , 1986:9 ) . |
| 59 | The entablature and cornice are decorated in a restrained manner and originally the tympanum was ornamented with a bronze relief of Zeus striking down the Greeks . |
| 60 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |