Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soil acidification impairs the uptake of calcium by trees which results in low calcium levels in the leaves of several tree species ( beech , birch , Scots pine , and oak ) and subsequently in the content of feeding caterpillars which are an important food source for hole-nesting birds in spring and summer . |
| 2 | There are a number of broad spectrum anthelmintics including the benzimidazoles , pyrantel , dichlorvos and ivermectin , which are effective in removing lumen-dwelling adult and larval strongyles and these are usually marketed as in-feed or oral preparations . |
| 3 | But in any event , in the way shown above , this concentration on squeezing the largest possible instalment payments into the confines of a weekly budget based on weekly pay-packets leaves the deep pitfall that people then have no leeway to cope with unexpected or higher-than-usual expenses which crop up 12m . |
| 4 | She did not , however , conduct any multi-disciplinary case conferences about the children until after they had been returned to their homes . |
| 5 | He sees the Bible as containing a section of classic case studies of the ways God deals with humankind in a variety of situations across a considerable period of time . |
| 6 | The British Academy operates a bursary scheme for students taking certain designated full-time postgraduate courses in the Humanities at institutions in the UK . |
| 7 | The second is to measure the land-use effects of afforestation , in terms of the land use displaced and also in terms of possible neighbourhood effects beyond the areas immediately affected . |
| 8 | From beyond his rooms and from outside his seldom-washed windows he heard the persistent hammer blows of the carpenters astride the new roof of the Commandant 's office . |
| 9 | The villu includes mangroves on the sea-ward side and tall kirala trees on the banks and islands of the freshwater lagoon . |
| 10 | Shamir 's decision was attributed partly to a personal antipathy and partly to the intention of eclipsing the less hardline Foreign Ministry officials from the negotiations . |
| 11 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 12 | Side chains Lys23 and Thr25 on the ribbon surface of each subunit make direct hydrogen bonds to the edges of base pairs ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) , making the major contribution to sequence specificity in the complex . |
| 13 | As nationalised suppliers , the electricity boards in the past were able to limit their liability for negligence to a trivial sum , but now , Tribick for one wants ‘ them to accept normal commercial negligence clauses in the contracts ’ . |
| 14 | After many weeks of trying to persuade puzzled neighbours to ‘ stop the machines ’ , one night , in desperation , she hurled empty milk bottles through the windows of the terraced houses on either side . |
| 15 | The National Union of Teachers fears that , because of its divisive potential , opting out will considerably weaken the educational system : ‘ What is proposed is really a means of reintroducing in a covert manner an elitist and centrally controlled system of direct grant schools on the lines of the grammar schools under the guise of increasing parental choice ’ . |
| 16 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 17 | Last year , Inland Revenue investigations into the affairs of 1.54pc of the nation 's farmers is said to have produced an additional £18m tax revenue . |
| 18 | The BTA 's July 1989 report on tourism and the Channel Tunnel identifies a number of issues needing attention including the provision of on-train Customs and immigration checks , the improvement of road links between the regions and the Tunnel , and the development of high speed services to the regions from the London terminals to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 19 | A refinement is to transplant only the so-called beta cells of the Islets of Langerhans , the picturesquely named nodes of tissue which actually produce the insulin . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mates estimated that the total uncovered foreign exchange liabilities of the banks at the end of 1985 amounted to $ 12.5 billion , and this suggests that at that time their total gross liabilities were substantially larger than $ 14 billion . |
| 22 | There is a right of appeal in most public law proceedings under the Children Act except those relating to emergency protection orders . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , the evidence is unequivocal , the social work members of the teams adopted — and maintained — a service development approach which was very pronounced indeed in some cases . |
| 24 | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD COULSON PROFESSORSHIP OF THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY Extracts from the Decrees and Regulations |
| 25 | Furthermore , the required low series resistance results in high Q resonances with the inductors at audio frequencies . |
| 26 | Many physicists ( pronounced ‘ fizzy-sists ’ ) have large pictures of him on the walls of their laboratories — just as you might have pictures of your favourite pop stars on the walls of your bedroom at home . |
| 27 | He has also made the ‘ Chorus Line ’ of paired sets of dancing legs and even a soccer tackle with contrasting team shorts on the legs plus a suspended ball ! |
| 28 | The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was ruled by the courts and finally by the House of Lords to be acting beyond its powers in lowering its public transport fares in the Fares fair' campaign of the early 1980s . |
| 29 | In 1986 Aids sufferer Martin Roberts , of Criccieth , Gwynedd , was banned from public swimming pools by the Sports Council of Wales and Arfon and Anglesey councils after he appeared on television talking about his condition . |
| 30 | Beats per second derived from an observer counting fast-phase eye movements over a 10–20s period . |