Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 2 | We are extending that provision to the aggravated events that follow the taking away . |
| 3 | Head office could ensure goal congruence by working out a masterplan and then issuing detailed instructions to each division : make this many units , transfer them to that division in the following numbers at the following prices . |
| 4 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 5 | His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices . |
| 6 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 7 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 8 | I SEE that hysteria about the two bombs in London last weekend is prompting police and security services to press once again for national identity cards which will be compulsory at all times and forgery-proof . |
| 9 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 10 | The Local Government Board , which had historically borne most of the responsibility for the treatment of poverty , had played very little part in the new measures of the Liberal government , except on occasion to disrupt them . |
| 11 | ‘ I have little faith in the unsubstantiated assertions of psychologists , ’ Briant said dryly . |
| 12 | The Jacobites used a simple cipher in private correspondence — a reference to Frederick being attached to Patricia , for example , meant that Mar was still loyal to James — but this presented little difficulty to the British code-breakers , as one Jacobite warned another : |
| 13 | There had to be prior scrutiny in each case of the particular facts , sovereign interests , and the likelihood that the Convention procedures would prove effective . |
| 14 | The government called a session of the National Security Council ( NSC , comprising the four heads of the armed forces and police , the President , the President of the Senate , the President of the Supreme Court , and the Comptroller-General ) , which met on March 27 and agreed that each branch of the armed forces would make its own report public . |
| 15 | The boundaries of that part of the working classes — it might overlap with the independent craftsmen , shopkeeper and even the small entrepreneur — which was coming to be recognised as a social and political force pretty well coincided with those of the world of clubs — Mutual Aid Societies , fraternal benevolent orders ( generally with strong rituals ) , choirs , gymnastic or sports clubs , even voluntary religious organisations at one extreme , labour unions and political associations at the other . |
| 16 | It was with Otto at the Lechfeld in 955 , and it is still among that part of the imperial treasures which is preserved at Vienna . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) On any a plication for the renewal of a licence in respect of any premises ( other tan off-sale premises ) , a licensing board may require a plan of the licensed premises to be produced to the board and lodged with the clerk , and on renewing such licence the board may order that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the business shall be made in that part of the licensed premises in which alcoholic liquor is sold or consumed . |
| 18 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 19 | Amplitude histograms ( g ) taken from epochs before ( dashed line ; 100 trials ) and after ( solid line ; 80 trials ) the tetanus show an increase in peak separation , but very little change in the relative heights of peaks . |
| 20 | Specialists organised themselves earlier — the American College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians were formed in 1913 and 19l5 respectively , while the Academy of General practice did not appear until 1947 — and , despite the recommendations of the Mills Commission and the Willard Committee in 1963 and 1964 for more broadly trained physicians , there was little response from the medical schools ( Stephen 1979 , p.266 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We were new to the business when we opened up , and we quickly realised that there was little advantage in the higher discounts from publishers when their long delivery times were taken into account . |
| 22 | Wilson had little fear of the representative bodies in which employers were involved , rightly believing that " a society composed of shipowners and sailors will not work well " . |
| 23 | The response to that entry by the dominant firms via the advertising variable is being modelled using statistical ie econometric methods . |
| 24 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 25 | This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK . |
| 26 | There was little spring in the ancient planks and Miss Barnsdale towered beside the box horse , ready to yank at the arms of any child who did n't manage to leap over the rough leather back first time . |
| 27 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
| 28 | For example , Byrd [ 1989 ] solves the problem of matching word senses in different thesauri by computing a set of ’ sense property vectors ’ for each entry from the two thesauri , and then computing an ’ optimal ’ mapping of the two sets . |
| 29 | Celts , Goths , Visigoths , Huns , Avars , Magyars , Cumans , Pechenegs , Tatars , Mongols , Turks have all had to take or occupy its key fortresses ; hence the importance of Belgrade , of Budapest , even of Vienna , for that gap between the Northern Carpathians and the Eastern Alps which lies between Vienna and Bratislava has to be traversed to gain access to the German plain . |
| 30 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |