Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israeli groups are planning protests over the weekend , with special attention focusing on a march in Jerusalem by the Peace Now movement in which demonstrators will carry pictures of some of the 130 Palestinian and four Jewish children under 16 who have been killed during the unrest . |
| 2 | His long term vision for agricultural research is to get resources into balance through conservation , recycling and renewal , and to protect the environment . |
| 3 | The conflict between public and private sectors is affecting relations between different bits of the World Bank group . |
| 4 | In the original method the total units were given numbers from 1 upwards and the sample taken by means of tables of random numbers which could be bought . |
| 5 | Another favourite pastime was planning raids on the various apartments and cars owned by their friends . |
| 6 | So some foreign houses are joining forces with local brokers . |
| 7 | On to this exceptionally high tide were piled waves of over 6 m ( 20 ft ) amplitude so that wave attack was absolutely excessive ( a series of accounts of the damage is given in Geography , 1953 , pp. 132–89 ) . |
| 8 | Following objections by Darlington Cycling Forum , British Rail is to allow cycles to be carried on board trains on Sundays on the Saltburn , Darlington and Bishop Auckland line . |
| 9 | If the assessment is alleged to have been made ( as here ) under ultra vires regulations , the proper course is to take proceedings by way of judicial review to quash the aberrant regulations and the assessment made thereunder , not by way of an appeal under procedure which presupposes that the assessment , although it may be erroneous , is basically lawful . |
| 10 | It is often said that one of the objectives of a commercial contract is to allocate risks between the contracting parties and the drafter 's client will generally wish to throw as many of the risks as possible onto its trading partners . |
| 11 | This was almost his last work and was carried out whilst he was the guest of an English merchant , Thomas Poyntz , in the shelter of the English house at Antwerp , where the English merchants were accorded privileges of freedom from arrest on mere suspicion , and from imprisonment without trial . |
| 12 | — MEMBERS of Winterton Hospital Social Club are helping colleagues at the South Cleveland Hospital to raise money for the hospital 's Renal Unit by organising a charity night at the club . |
| 13 | Among the mid-winter visitors to British gardens are increasing numbers of blackcaps . |
| 14 | The author was John Hull , a secret sustainer of contras and allegedly a facilitator of drug runs ; he kept a ranch on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border , where his favourite sport was to shoot alligators from his veranda . |
| 15 | ( First Edition ) BRITISH Telecommunications is to cut prices on some transatlantic services in the face of fierce competition from Mercury Communications . |
| 16 | View from City Road , page 25 Telecom price cut : British Telecom is to cut prices on some transatlantic calls by up to 8 per cent in response to competition . |
| 17 | However , a central value of social work is to restore individuals to autonomy and to retain and support their social links . |
| 18 | A public inquiry is considering plans for a third supermarket — opponents say it 's the last thing the town needs . |
| 19 | Today 's public inquiry is examining proposals from the Department of Transport and the Countryside Commission to actually make it illegal , to ban vehicles from the Ridgeway on Sundays and bank holidays . |
| 20 | The arrow icon is for the select tool for choosing the objects you want to work on and the other seven tools in this top group are drawing tools for adding text , polygons , rectangles , lines , ellipses and freehand drawings to a slide . |
| 21 | Havelock Ellis emphasized that the new aim of social reform was to purify conditions at their source . |
| 22 | When my right hon. Friend is making arrangements for his business in the second week in April , will he please include a visit to Edgware general hospital , where he will find patients , members of staff and doctors highly satisfied with the changes that have taken place in the national health service ? |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend is presenting awards at an important lunch . |
| 24 | A total of 118 British firms were granted awards for export achievement this year ; 25 were rewarded for technological achievement ; 12 won awards for Environmental correctness . |
| 25 | British Gas is to cut prices for domestic users by a further two per cent , the second cut this year . |
| 26 | It is estimated that British Gas 's contracted supplies from the North Sea will start to run down from 1984 and by 1995 will meet only one-third of UK needs . |
| 27 | For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents . |
| 28 | Ursula pointed towards the Cookham bank , where an unremarkable middle-aged man in a brown anorak was tossing crumbs to a quacking and splashing circle of waterfowl . |
| 29 | The former Labour Foreign Secretary is urging voters in 90 key marginals to cast their vote to keep Mr Kinnock out . |
| 30 | COPIES of the Daily Mirror were changing hands for £1 or more yesterday — and one desperate punter offered £5 to get his hands on one . |