Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 2 | As in so much of eighteenth-century Sussex local patterns depended on the experiences of one family , yet overall the role of the aristocracy and gentry remained more or less unquestioned . |
| 3 | Such a view lies at the heart of the reasons given by the writers of the National Curriculum consultative document ( DES , 1987 ) for a common curriculum in all state schools . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 5 | I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 . |
| 6 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
| 7 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 8 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 9 | Over 170 cyclists gathered in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle , near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire , over the long weekend of May ‘ -25 to celebrate 152 years of the invention , by Kirkpatrick Macmillan , of our favourite form of transport and recreation . |
| 10 | Waking in his room at the week-ends , Sandra was there beside him , her head against his shoulder , the sun-bleached hair half-covering her ears ; the warm curve of her body shuddered a little when he stroked it , his fingers traced round the freckles on her shoulder , islands on an ocean of tanned skin . |
| 11 | So in theory a computer , by comparing the pattern of voltages registered by the voltmeters at all the portholes , could calculate the pattern of obstacles around the fish . |
| 12 | The patterns formed by the processes of etching and/or evaporation of the conductor make the electrical circuitry of the integrated circuit . |
| 13 | She rested her head back against the soft leather seat , watching the patterns formed by the trees against the night sky as they drove steadily back to the road . |
| 14 | Other employers referred to the advantages of employing search consultants for particularly sensitive appointments ; obviously a personnel director could not be expected to try and find his or her successor . |
| 15 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
| 16 | Gina stopped where she was , her fingers clenched in the palms of her hand as she fought to control the surge of irritation which threatened to make her lose her temper completely , while Rune 's brilliant gaze held her in thrall , intimate , deliberately self-assured . |
| 17 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 18 | Certain of the policies pursued by the Tories during the '50s served to strengthen such stable ‘ non-class ’ social collectivities . |
| 19 | But it is the photographs that hit home the hardest : prisoners paraded round the streets in execution parades , broken men with cardboard signs hung around their necks on TV ( post-Tiananmen ) and kneeling before firing squads . |
| 20 | The birds caught in the traps on Fair Isle will be mainly the smaller passerines such as warblers , chats and the like , which tend to seek out any cover available . |
| 21 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 22 | Moreover , the government 's decision to make SEMS responsible for developing minicomputers added to the problems of Cii-Honeywell Bull . |
| 23 | The coastal areas of southern Italy were dotted with cities occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists . |
| 24 | For through the seemingly substantial chest of his great-great-grandfather he could glimpse the hazed , refracted image of the Ywe Lung , the great wheel of dragons broken by the planes of his ancestor 's body . |
| 25 | One of the main ways in which they did this was by seeking to rally people behind their cause by appealing to the issues of the day , through the press , pulpit , and the speeches given by the candidates at the hustings . |
| 26 | The two brothers parted at the docks in Lothern . |
| 27 | These conditions touch on many aspects of our national life : health threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes ; education retarded when children have no room in which to do homework , or arrive tired at school after sleeping in a room with several others ; marriages broken up through the strain of sharing a home or making do in cramped and uncomfortable quarters ; Borstal institutions , remand homes and approved schools filled by the products of an unhappy home life . |
| 28 | Maggie LeMan kept her eyes riveted on the occupants of the stage for a moment , where they were bowing and making the best of the half-hearted appreciation now being shown by clapping punctuated with cat-calls ; then , slowly leaning to the side , she picked up the bird cage as she said , ‘ What do I want with a concert party ? |
| 29 | The seats were made in a variety of materials , plaited with subtle variations in pattern : freshwater rushes gathered from the banks of the Rhône , rye straw ( top right ) , and wheat straw wrapped with raffia ( bottom right ) were left plain , or stained red , green , yellow , blue or pale purple . |
| 30 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |