Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , although there was a close association of life styles and values between the local and newcomer middle classes , there was a significant difference between the working-class farm workers and the other working-class groups .
2 In the face of continuing failure to reach any agreement on the future of Czechoslovakia , the federal government unanimously adopted a resolution pledging itself to submit draft proposals for the legislative and executive authority to the republican and federal parliaments .
3 There were craft workshops , shops and counting houses for the commercial and artisan community .
4 However , the most recent of these studies has also shown that habitual drinkers who are heterozygotes for the normal and mutant ALDH2 genes develop alcoholic liver disease at lower levels of alcohol intake than alcoholics who are homozygotes for the normal gene .
5 Work placement is an important feature of our programmes , with trainees spending three days a week in a variety of settings , including homes for the elderly and day care centres .
6 The 10th , 11th and 12th rounds of the United States-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ( START ) , otherwise referred to by the negotiating parties as the Nuclear and Space Talks ( NST ) , were held between July 1988 and December 1989 in Geneva , Switzerland .
7 Two contrasting images of the financial and living standards of older people may be identified .
8 It appears that the L3 lose their sheaths while penetrating the wall of the caecum and central colon and within one week provoke the formation of nodules in the muscular and subserosal layers of the intestine .
9 The French would be trying to defeat the Prussians before the British and Dutch could come to their aid , while the Prussians , to be certain of victory , needed Wellington 's troops to march from Quatre Bras and assault the Emperor 's left flank .
10 Related research is exploring these relationships at the national and river basin level , so that the farm-level work will be able to provide greater detail on specific ground level relationships , and on the factors which variability in response .
11 Harold Davies covered the City Hall , the mayor 's office and the C.P.R. offices ; Jim Miller covered the Police Station and the High Courts , when in session , and I began with the funeral parlour beat and the Board of Trade office , plus weekly meetings and speeches at the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs in the Grant Hall Hotel .
12 The Church Commissioners also handle the stipends of the diocesan and suffragan bishops , as well as stipends for the deans/provosts and two residentiary canons at all but two of the cathedrals .
13 Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization .
14 Yoshida declared himself to be a liberal opposed equally to the excesses of the left and right .
15 A circular to shareholders was also posted with LASMO 's Report and Accounts containing proposals to be put to meetings of the Ordinary and Preference Shareholders on 25th May 1993 for the creation of 10 million cumulative dollar preference shares of US$25 each ( Dollar Preference Shares ) in the Company .
16 This is strengthened by the fact that the methylation patterns of the UHF-1 and oligo I sequences were relatively similar , although not identical .
17 Compared with the black and grey tones for the blue and red of the other roundels one might almost believe that on number five the roundel ring immediately inside the yellow is red and the inner spot is blue , although on this one the tail stripes appear similar to numbers one , two , four and six .
18 Harwell was considering diversifying into new non-nuclear areas for the offshore and biotechnology industries .
19 But these have fragmented into seven different denominations , and are no longer — like Grey Friars or St Maries Abbey — sanctuaries for the indigent and outcast , who are consigned instead to the lunatic asylum and new jail , both expressions of Utilitarianism .
20 In Protestant countries since the Middle Ages , however , this struggle had become even more terrible and irrevocable , because the Reformation had renounced both prayers for the dead and purgatory as an intermediate stage , in which those who had committed venial sins might work their passage to a better world .
21 The methodology is qualitative ( unstructured interviews , analyses of the academic and specialist literature ) , as is appropriate for an essentially exploratory study ; yet the comparative approach provides both analytical depth and explanatory edge .
22 The type of digestion is in fact very similar to that described for category 3 ( Fig. 3.19 ) : on microtines the salient angles are completely denuded of enamel ( Fig. 3.19 A , B ) , and corners of the occlusal and root angles are rounded ( Fig. 3.19 C-E ) , and the dentine has early stages of digestion , all similar in nature but more extreme than category 3 digestion ( compare Fig. 3.18 and 3.19 ) .
23 The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement .
24 Around 12 million Africans were captured and transported to work the cotton fields and tobacco and sugar plantations of the Caribbean and North America .
25 The book is based on the year that Mackay spent in London in 1887–1888 and describes events of that Jubilee Year , especially as they touched on the lives of the socialist and anarchist German exiles there .
26 Similar articles with a built-in or market value apart from workmanship .
27 ‘ Four per cent is the average figure for companies in the electrical and electronics field , whilst three and a half per cent is common in the aerospace and chemical fields , ’ added Stuart .
28 Despite the dramatic revelations of new , super-microcomputers in the national and computer press , a school is likely to want to buy a microcomputer which is a known brand and which will suit the information needs of staff and pupils .
29 Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one .
30 Slug in ash ( above ) and tortoise in burr elm ( right ) Making no bones about methods or means , David is a proud user of mechanical aids , ranging from lathes to the Woodcarver , from drum sanders to a Black & Decker Powerfile .
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