Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 2 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 3 | Feelings are running high about the brick company 's attempts to change their existing tipping permission for inert waste to allow the dumping of domestic and non-hazardous commercial refuse . |
| 4 | For teams north and south of the border who have done well and they are classed as foreign for the Tourist Board 's crystal trophy for the best visiting team . |
| 5 | Thrusting the helm hard over , he shot clear of the motor yacht 's wind-shadow . |
| 6 | The platform staff are the most public of the Transport Department 's employees ; currently c. 400 are employed , augmented annually by 150 seasonal staff . |
| 7 | ‘ Our number 's only one digit different from the Water Company 's . |
| 8 | It takes visual sensitivity to realise that a meandering medieval street is quite different from the traffic engineers ' meandering street and this is why the consultants ' perspective drawings look so horribly wrong . |
| 9 | Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees . |
| 10 | It provides district councils with a generous allocation , but not so generous in the County Council 's view as to prejudice the counc the county 's interests and by sterilizing land which is unlikely to be taken up or by promoting without due regard to the consequences for housing and services . |
| 11 | Only two other U.K. manufacturers have recently installed such a machine which replaces the current punch card system with a floppy disk direct from the design studio 's computer . |
| 12 | ( One notable exception is the University of London , which recently issued guidelines on what was acceptable in a house officer 's post and warned that jobs failing to come up to standard would not be recognised . ) |
| 13 | The Award is progressively becoming recognised as the catering industry 's most prestigious and demanding competition for young professionals entering the business , as marketing and sales manager for Nestlé Foodservice Ltd , explains . |
| 14 | The contention was that a co-ordinated approach was needed towards the treatment of offenders , and that it was not appropriate for the Home Secretary 's responsibilities for prisoners to be on a different basis from his other responsibilities . |
| 15 | Mangla is not explicit about the World Bank 's improved drug delivery system . |
| 16 | Liverpool v Charlton Athletic It would be typical of the way Charlton 's luck is going at the moment were Barnes and Hansen to return to the Liverpool side after injury . |
| 17 | German manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen are so convinced of the diesel engine 's future importance , they are developing ‘ clean-burn ’ units and fitting catalytic converters to the exhaust systems . |
| 18 | The developments briefly described in this chapter demonstrate that there are a number of ways in which an assessment scheme consistent with the Cockcroft Committee 's recommendations could be implemented . |
| 19 | For those of us less fortunate in the audience Bocca 's technical prowess was devastating enough . |
| 20 | Ultimately , however , the fear of a rival market developing outside the Exchange , the need for outside capital , and the desire to attract the American and Japanese securities houses ( whose participation was crucial in the Stock Exchange 's fight to become a world leader ) , made inevitable further rule changes . |
| 21 | There is nothing illegal nor immoral in a club chairman 's demonstration of ball skills but the contrast , in a day , between the image of a shy , reclusive , multi-millionaire property tycoon and that of a terrace tearaway was too sudden to digest . |
| 22 | This is traditionally considered as quite separate from the jus ad bellum which governs the legitimacy of resort to the use of force . |
| 23 | The provision of the main services is at a level similar to the specialist team 's . |
| 24 | Important , central to the job holder 's current post and urgent . |
| 25 | I can not comment on whether last Friday 's events were reactive to the security forces ' recent successes , but the searches on 11 and 12 January were , by the standards of the hon. Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) , proactive exercises in terms of their success . |
| 26 | The initiating member should offer an incentive to all Network members to encourage the submission of original prospective purchaser suggestions , in the form of a success fee equal to , for instance , 10% of the total estimated engagement fee and which would only be payable to a Network member 's firm if the following conditions are satisfied : |
| 27 | The authority has the power to appoint the Chief Constable ( subject to the Home Secretary 's approval ) and can require that he retires in the interests of efficiency ( again with the Home Secretary 's approval ) . |
| 28 | When industrial disputes arose the bill first prescribed direct talks between workers and management , followed in the event of a breakdown in these talks by mediation for up to 14 days by an independent arbitration ; if mediation failed a strike could then be called subject to the strike organizers ' giving seven day 's notice to management . |
| 29 | Adopting a whole curriculum approach means , too , that support teachers can legitimately respond to requests from class teachers for help that are unrelated to the support teacher 's responsibility for specific pupils . |
| 30 | Akin to the way Solaris x86 includes a device driver interface , Solaris 2.3 will also feature a Kernel Binary Interface , which will take care of hardware-dependent functions such as cache management , interrupts , temporary states and floating point processing . |