Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after !
2 The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that .
3 Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia .
4 They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed .
5 In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes .
6 DUNMORE 'S National Sprint winner Ballyfolion Shy can take another step towards classic glory in the first round of the Respond Irish Derby at Shelbourne Park tomorrow night .
7 As he explained in the rhyming preface to the first part , he had written it
8 The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time .
9 The adoral shields are large , not separating the oral shield from the first arm plate .
10 In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose .
11 These people will point you in the right direction to the next village .
12 Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career .
13 For the purpose of the Anticipation — the advance payment of the first instalment of the subsidy on assessments of £40 — both lands and goods were treated alike , their owners being considered equally capable of paying sooner than anyone else .
14 In Spain , as part of the administrative reorganisation under the first Bourbon king , Philip V , a new secretariat of state was created in 1714 for the handling of foreign affairs .
15 There was a realisation that the mantle of radicalism had been seized from the Liberal Party and that the main political division of the twentieth century would not be between the Tories and the Liberals but between Labour and anti-Labour .
16 In the province of Punjab the most important economic change of the nineteenth century came with British colonialism .
17 To what extent did the newly emerged Asian network shape the pattern of economic change in the twentieth century ?
18 In one of the political meetings at the second branch a councillor had voiced typically conservative views on education , stressing the need to encourage the brightest and discourage bad behaviour by the cane .
19 Other indicators suggest , at best , a weak rebound in the second quarter ; but consumer confidence plunged in May to below its level a year ago .
20 These steps were agreed by the government , the African National Congress ( ANC ) and 17 other political groups at the first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) in December [ see pp. 38662-63 ] .
21 Laqueur finds in the political , cultural , and economic transformations of the eighteenth century a context in which ‘ the articulation of radical differences between the sexes became culturally imperative ’ .
22 Several parliamentary sessions under Henry VIII passed without any direct taxes being asked or given ; and Mary , at the start of her reign , even remitted the outstanding part of the last subsidy granted under Edward VI , asking nothing from the two parliaments of 1554 .
23 So far , as I have indicated , nationalism has proved to be , in any direct confrontation , a stronger force ; and it is undoubtedly the case that the most extensive and devastating conflicts of the twentieth century have been the wars between nations , not the struggles between classes .
24 The point that the so-called professions themselves appeal to the moral status of their work is well argued in a recent paper on the creation of a professional ideology in the nineteenth century .
25 At the beginning of that period the devastating experience of the First World War and the abolition of the monarchy had created a hiatus in the self-confidence of the bourgeoisie which necessitated the founding of the legitimacy of the state on welfare principles ( Offe , 1984 ) .
26 There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper .
27 The enduring appeal of the Conservatives is undoubtedly one of the most important political phenomena of the twentieth century : and yet both the party as an institution and the nature of British Conservatism remain relatively under-studied .
28 They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn .
29 The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place .
30 Earlier this season , a last- minute goal from Duncan Ferguson did the damage and the return of the tall striker to the first team after resolving his personal problems is another reason for Aberdeen 's manager , Willie Miller , to view the game with caution .
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