Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many low-income LDCs have no access to market funds ( bank loans or bond issues ) and must therefore rely on concessionary funds or multilateral and bilateral aid . |
| 2 | The Trust is not an anglers ' or owners ' association and takes no side in the arguments between the supporters or sporting and commercial fishing , but it does believe that salmon should be taken only in their rivers of origin or their estuaries so that the total level of fishing effort can be controlled in order to ensure that enough fish reach the spawning sites to maintain stocks naturally . |
| 3 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 4 | Invited speakers , including Maurice Bruynooghe , Alan Bundy , John Lloyd , Frank MacCabe and Robin Milner , will address a range of topics in logic programming , including recent research in constraint logic programming , deductive databases and parallel and concurrent logic programming languages . |
| 5 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 6 | Whereas in the 19th century each political faction prided itself on having its own newspaper , the steady decline in titles narrowed the available range and , inevitably , displaced political considerations as proprietorial and editorial attention turned to questions of commercial survival . |
| 7 | Examples are a new shape of coffee cup or a new transfer pattern applied to plates or attractive and novel computer furniture and with such objects the appearance of the object is important to a person buying it . |
| 8 | The ruling class was clearly visible in terms of its life-style , attitudes , accents and political and social dominance . |
| 9 | Large to very large long-legged long-necked birds , with long stout bills and black and/or white plumage , flying with neck and legs both outstretched ( unlike herons ) , legs trailing slightly downwards : stately gait . |
| 10 | Sauce for the goose … from left : Red wine and port sauce , Vegetables with garlic , thyme and butter , Roast apples with cranberry sauce , Roast swede , sweet potatoes and celeriac and Glazed goose . |
| 11 | The garden , which had provided not only subsistence but a little cash crop , was overgrown with brambles and cow-parsley and other vegetation of interest only to wildlife . |
| 12 | The British party indeed congratulated itself on having fought to keep such matters as foreign and social policy out of that part of the text which in its view constituted the ‘ genuine ’ amendments to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | The EEB declaration makes it clear that European environment groups ‘ believe that when decisions are taken on the respective competence of the Community , Member States and regional and local government in actions to protect the environment , the overriding objective must be to secure the highest quality of life for the Community 's citizens . |
| 14 | Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) . |
| 15 | If deferred diagnoses and the artefactual disagreements involving delirium are excluded , there was complete agreement in 89% of the cases and complete or partial agreement in 92% . |
| 16 | The use of assertiveness and relaxation skills heighten the sense of self-worth , as do peer support groups and reliable and empathetic mentor systems . |
| 17 | A higher turnout than in 1987 was reported in the Bergamo-Brescia constituency in Lombardy , native turf of the Northern League , which wants northern Italy to be a separate republic in a new Italian federation , free of the burden of taxes and inefficient and corrupt rule from Rome . |
| 18 | A good parent does not let his or her child do anything ; there have to be proper guidelines , firm but loving admonition at times and clear but gentle encouragement . |
| 19 | Interestingly , a majority of companies both on and off the zones considered that if anything the zones had had a beneficial effect on local business , local economic development , environmental improvements and public- and private-sector investment . |
| 20 | The greater understanding of the behaviour of commuters and the long term trends are being synthesised with information on the policies of transport operators and central and local government so that the influence of policy , such as that in the 1980 Transport Act , on the long-term trends can be better understood . |
| 21 | There were no significant correlations between Finnish stock returns and current or lagged stock returns for the UK , USA or the world . |
| 22 | Decisions about priorities could take account of pupils ' needs and national or Regional health concerns . |
| 23 | The most important items are medieval French and Italian manuscripts and German and Italian incunable editions of ‘ De ludo scachorum ’ by the fifteenth-century friar Jacobus de Cessolis . |
| 24 | dried seeds and fresh or dried leaf , used for flatulence , in gripe waters , has some diuretic effect |
| 25 | Talk to many a railwayman about the Blea Moor Tunnel and you will find either a spontaneous reaction of a flow of stories or complete and total silence . |
| 26 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 27 | There is a renewal of interest in localities and the relationships between broad structural changes and social and economic change at the local level . |
| 28 | Oberon will use the additional funding for beta testing and completion of product development and to expand its domestic and international distribution networks and consulting and technical support programmes in preparation for a product launch in the autumn . |
| 29 | Since the start of the political reform process in Bulgaria in November 1989 there had been a rash of strikes in many sectors of the economy against low pay , poor working conditions and unpopular or incompetent management . |
| 30 | Editors increasingly saw only the downside of tedious and expensive court actions and official or semi-official government pressure . |