Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the report in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean dependent territories , it was agreed in talks in May between UK government officials and the Chief Minister , Emile Gumbs , that Anguilla 's Constitution would be amended ( by Order in Council within the next few months ) to allow the Governor to assume responsibility for the offshore financial sector . |
| 2 | Following a report published in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean territories , it was agreed in May in talks held in London between the UK government and Gumbs to amend the Constitution in order to allow the Governor to assume greater control of the offshore financial sector [ see p. 37824 ] . |
| 3 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |
| 4 | This little-explored area , where technology and imagination meet , reflects the debate in France and the United States on the limits of architectural awareness . |
| 5 | They have favoured the marked expansion of the Woodcock on the Downs in recent years , and also provide the Grasshopper Warbler and Yellowhammer with one of their principal nesting habitats . |
| 6 | MDC has also been more sympathetic than LDDC to the interests of existing firms in the area . |
| 7 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 8 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 9 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
| 10 | Trying to push Whaddon into the realms of professional soccer means that all my time , twenty-four hours a day , three days a week , is devoted to the team . |
| 11 | It occurred therefore to one of " the Teutons " who came over with Daniel Höchstetter in the days of Royal Bess , that guineas and half-guineas might be coined without anyone being the wiser . |
| 12 | The successful applicants will form part of an active research group led by Professor Peter Donnelly , Dr Richard Nichols and Dr David Balding in the Schools of Mathematical and Biological Sciences at QMW . |
| 13 | He met former James Bond girl Alison Doody in a Dublin nightspot on the last day of his trek around Ireland in the footsteps of ex-fiancee Julia Roberts . |
| 14 | Nicholas Brady , the US Treasury Secretary , speaks in Washington on the consequences of low US savings rate . |
| 15 | And Nottinghamshire 's business leaders are the least confident in the East Midlands about the prospects of increased sales according to a survey by the accountants Price Waterhouse . |
| 16 | Sacrificed to the cause of poverty : Keith Joseph , whose ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ speech halted his political rise , talks to Mary Kenny about the problems of poor , young mothers |
| 17 | The level of SR activity declined sharply and in the pre-war period they took less advantage than did the SDs of the opportunities for legal activity . |
| 18 | A promising start was cut short when Gehan Mendis turned a ball from left arm over bowler Alan Mullally into the hands of backward square after making just 11 . |
| 19 | BSP Prime Minister-designate Andrei Lukanov told the Assembly that his party did not want a monopoly of power , and would support and co-operate with Zhelev in the interests of national consent . |
| 20 | At the head of Gunnerside Gill beyond the ruins of Blakethwaite Mine are the ruined dams of Blakethwaite , and it was here that we stopped for our lunch . |
| 21 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 22 | What excites Lévi-Strauss about the possibilities of structuralist analysis is its potential for a formalized analysis of meaning . |
| 23 | It seemed remarkably near : a flat blue sheet , crawling as in Hong Kong with the skeins of hidden currents , stippled and rippled by breezes , and turning brassy gold where it met the horizon on to which the sun was now setting fast . |
| 24 | Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd better drink Madame 's offering , ’ he added , directing Miranda to the glasses of brilliant cordial ; she sipped and made a face . |
| 26 | Surely we can be warned by the horrors being perpetrated in the former Yugoslavia about the results of political , religious and ethnic intransigence . |
| 27 | Consequently , valid comparisons of the rate of known opioid use in Wirral with the rates in other areas of the UK depend upon an assessment of the findings of the handful of local surveys of known drug users in the 1980s . |
| 28 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
| 29 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
| 30 | Later , as a ‘ Christian evangelist ’ , Gary would speak of meeting God in the hours of comparative tranquillity on the prison roof . |