Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board has recommended a final dividend of 3.95p per share , making a total for the year of 5.4p , a 10pc improvement on 1991 . |
| 2 | The company is recommending a final dividend of 4.1p per share , making a total for the year of 5.8p , up 14pc on last year 's payout of 5.1p . |
| 3 | Shareholders will receive a final dividend of 14.9p a share , making a total for the year of 21p per share , up by 15pc . |
| 4 | The marquis managed to pour the brandy without spilling it , his face chalk-white as the ramifications of Horatia 's return began to dawn on him . |
| 5 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 6 | Not only tragedy would feel the ban , but comedy , too , since all drama begins with human frailty , and none so universal and absurd as the propensity of mankind to behave badly . |
| 7 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 8 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 9 | Back was outstanding for the Midlands against South West two weeks ago and tore into the Barbarians like a wolf at a flock of sheep . |
| 10 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 11 | Before I start , I would like to draw out two birthday titles , both paperback originals and both due for a lot of press coverage . |
| 12 | ‘ This afternoon we were — are — due for a walk to Ramsgate . ’ |
| 13 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 14 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 15 | Johnson was furious Northern second row Karl Fairbank was n't sent-off for a challenge on full-back Rob Myler . |
| 16 | As Peter Ackroyd has pointed out in his biography , Eliot was apprehensive about the approach of war : which was not the same as being faint-hearted . |
| 17 | ‘ At first , we were apprehensive about the process of signing , then it was the same about deals in Europe and now I think Brian will be helpful when we sort out the American side . |
| 18 | Budapest also remain apprehensive about the nature of Romania 's future political parties , and particularly those of the National Christian Peasant Party , which was recently formed with the help of Mrs Doina Cornea , one of Romania 's leading former dissidents . |
| 19 | In addition , analysts — like many others — are apprehensive about the prospect of VAT being imposed on books ; Pentos itself believes VAT of 5% on books is likely . |
| 20 | He had been somewhat apprehensive about the encounter in view of the way their last meeting had ended , but fortunately she seemed to have put her irritation behind her . |
| 21 | Like Charles himself , the government had seriously over-estimated the likely degree of Jacobite sympathy he would encounter and they were particularly apprehensive about the security of Chester , which barred the way into North Wales . |
| 22 | By and large , energy efficiency is profitable for the user of electricity . |
| 23 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 24 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 25 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 26 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air , and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 27 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 28 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 29 | So do ask lots of questions to make sure that the hypnotherapist you choose is right for the kind of treatment you want . |
| 30 | Furthermore , with a growing public awareness of the need to protect the environment and generate crop production systems that are sustainable , the social and political climate is right for the development of biocontrol . |