Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the hypotheses which will be tested is that comprehension of the logical character of ‘ mental state verbs ’ is necessary for understanding that some sentences are true in virtue of their form alone ( eg ‘ The father is a man ’ ) . |
| 2 | The entire land was to be divided into missionary territories , each division under the religious instruction of a group of monks from Austrasia . |
| 3 | While we 're on the U S , could you say on the oil services er , how much of the er , good performances do you pumps turning round and again what are the prospects of that division for the current year ? |
| 4 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 5 | This done , I set each processor to a different effect and balanced the quantity of each effect coming into the Quad-FX with the four trim pots . |
| 6 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 7 | ’ The value of an air ambulance service remains uncertain , compared with the use of that money in a different way . |
| 8 | If the donor is an individual ( or a company ) and pays basic rate income tax the RNLI can claim back the tax already paid on that money from the Inland Revenue turning the donor 's £600 , for example , into £800 for the Institution . |
| 9 | Spread and space each strip at an equal distance apart , lining up edge AB with the centre leading edge of the curtains . |
| 10 | Cut the pattern from the curved edge to bottom edge at regular intervals ( fig. 50a ) and place the bottom edge of each strip on the marked line ( CB ) . |
| 11 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 12 | Since the summation convention is being applied , the mathematics involves multiplying each component of the dynamical equation ( 19.19 ) by the corresponding velocity component and then adding the three resulting equations . |
| 13 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 14 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 15 | Although he has had relatively little experience at the commercial end of publishing , he chaired OUP 's finance committee for 13 years , and has confounded scepticism with OUP 's record since his appointment as chief executive . |
| 16 | the kitchen 's awful , I hate that kitchen its awful with that kitchen with the back door in the middle of it , why have they got a back door in the middle of their kitchen ? its right in the middle of it |
| 17 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 18 | This was a condition not easily achieved at the Physic Garden because , Miller added , ‘ we have very little loam within a favourable distance ’ . |
| 19 | Certainly , advertising must involve a process of stimulation of responses from consumers — that bit of the adopted jargon of psychology is fair enough . |
| 20 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 21 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 22 | It was er that building beside the Free Church . |
| 23 | Section 13 provides that a person dissatisfied with a decision of a specified tribunal on a point of law may either appeal against that decision to the High Court , or require the tribunal to state a case for the opinion of the High Court . |
| 24 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 25 | Because no one can know at this stage what those conditions might be , it would be unwise for anyone now to decide irrevocably to take that decision at a future date . |
| 26 | Yes I think they have the the best information to be able to make that decision at a local level . |
| 27 | It was about the height of Phoebe 's thigh and , after a flustered second , she remembered that decision with an instant clarity . |
| 28 | This particular passage is Bukharin at his sophistical worst , since he rails against the ‘ freedom to labour ’ in a manner that dodges the real freedom that workers can obtain by forming trade unions ; this was not a negation of the ‘ freedom to labour ’ , but rather a redefinition of that freedom in a positive manner . |
| 29 | Yeats 's poem , ‘ In Memory of Major Robert Gregory ’ , is centrally concerned with this , as when he associates Robert Gregory with that paradigm of the English courtier , Philip Sidney . |
| 30 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |