Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the prevailing compensation structure in practically all businesses reinforces this attitude because it is heavily biased towards managerial positions and titles . |
| 2 | By highlighting the threat to the constitution from Labour and Liberal plans for a Scottish Parliament and the proportional representation system by which its members would be elected , he consistently and robustly drove home the message that the Tories alone stood as the party of Union , of collective strength in negotations abroad and strong government at home . |
| 3 | Direct percutaneous access to the gall bladder has opened new avenues for the non-operative management of gall stone disease and is being increasingly used , particularly in elderly and high risk patients , for the treatment of acute cholecystitis , empyema and the perforated gall bladder with localised abscess formation . |
| 4 | When you do all the sums and move all the money from pocket to pocket it looks as if there is an increase of between 2 to 2.5 per cent and that is almost the difference between the previous inflation forecast of 3.5 per cent and the present inflation forecast of 5.75 per cent . |
| 5 | The cash flow is discounted using the after-tax discount rate , and the present value cost of the loan is therefore £10,000 . |
| 6 | Apart from the HMV shop in Oxford Street , London ( 1939 ) , and the temporary Soleil pavilion at the Paris 1937 exhibition , Emberton 's other main work is the circular casino at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach , Lancashire ( 1939 ) , where he had already designed the fun house and grand national ( 1935 ) , showing the adaptability of modernism to popular entertainment . |
| 7 | It was revealed that bilateral trade had increased by 3 per cent in 1989 over the previous year , and the aggregate target figure for bilateral trade in 1990 was set at $6,200 million . |
| 8 | The Rentokil Cup was awarded to David Plim , and the best scratch score to Archie Wylie , Hygiene East Kilbride . |
| 9 | The knee region is thus probably the most useful in ageing preadolescent skeletons , ( Hunt & Gleiser , 1955 ) , and the best reference work in this connection is the atlas compiled by Pyle and Hoerr ( 1955 ) . |
| 10 | But Biograph was a timely reminder of why he used to loom so large , featuring rare tracks , live recordings of familiar songs , and the best Dylan interview in 20 years in the booklet inside . |
| 11 | The town 's morphology can for convenience be considered in two sections , first the defended enclosure and the extra-mural suburbs south of the river ( fig. 18 ) , and second the extra-mural areas to the north and west ( fig. 20 ) . |
| 12 | Substitution of the values for the mass and volume of the gas together with those for temperature , pressure and the molar gas constant into equation ( 6 ) enables the molar mass and thus the relative molecular mass to be calculated . |
| 13 | Tiguary 's men recognised his value from the chased silver on his powder horn and on the barrel of his gun , and the gleaming gold gimp on his velvet breeches . |
| 14 | The lost river and the lost people side by side — amazing . |
| 15 | The Foyle area comprises the catchments of all rivers and their tributaries which flow into Lough Foyle and the adjacent sea area between Malin Head in Co Donegal and Downhill in Co Derry . |
| 16 | The 7th Army withdrew under an agreement negotiated between Russia and Armenia , and the 4th Army Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) troops in Azerbaijan were also being withdrawn , but there were accusations of their equipment being stolen for use by Azerbaijan in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict . |
| 17 | The pledges about post-war economic policy which were extracted from the government before Beveridge were due to the United States and the importance it attached to statements of economic war aims , which were incorporated in the Atlantic Charter and the Mutual Aid Agreement between the two countries . |
| 18 | He has been goaded by the obstacles to expansion and the punishing VAT rate of 18.6 per cent that is imposed on imports in his own country . |
| 19 | This new arrangement and the tall glass structure of Mies 's pure and austere design would irrevocably alter the character of that part of the City . |
| 20 | The 1984 PACE Act , the 1987 Criminal Justice Act ( which set up the Serious Fraud Office ) and the Criminal Justice Act of 1988 all contained measures which strengthened legal powers to investigate fraud . |
| 21 | Critics are demanding changes to 2 important pieces of legislation … the Children Act of 1989 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 , which forced the police to hand over to social services all offenders under the age of 15 once they 've been arrested and charged . |
| 22 | Biya also appointed an additional Secretary of State at the Finance Ministry ( Roger Tshoungi , the former director of economic and financial controls ) , and a second Minister at the Presidency in charge of Special Missions ( Emmanuel Zoa Oloa , a former holder of this post and the incumbent Deputy Secretary-General at the Presidency ) . |
| 23 | The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any change in these kinds of laws — as the last 30 years of procedural mugging by both sides shows in relation to abortion , and the five-year gestation period of this Bill shows with regard to experimenting . |
| 24 | How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues . |
| 25 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 26 | Though it was relatively unsuccessful it confirmed and strengthened the trade union connection with the Labour Party in much the same way as the Taff Vale judgement had acted as an annealing force between the trade unions and the Labour Representation Committee in 1901 . |
| 27 | Evidence might also be brought of the amount of time spent performing the function , the consequences of it not being performed by the job-holder , the relevant terms of any collective agreements , the work experience of past holders of the position , and the current work experience of co-workers in similar jobs . |
| 28 | To perceive Friends of the Earth and the current US Department of the Interior as similar types of institution , with similar methods of public relations and similar sets of motives , and whose statements both have similar orders of truth value ( or lack of truth-value ) indicates a moral and intellectual short-sightedness . |
| 29 | That is , individuals at time t can observe the current market short rate , , and the current market rate on a bond which has maturity date n , . |
| 30 | Further out the forecasts spread rapidly , with growth predictions next year ranging from a pessimistic 1.4 per cent to an optimistic 3.4 per cent , inflation from 1.0 per cent to 4.9 per cent , the PSBR from £32.5 billion to £60 billion , unemployment from a low of 2.7 million to a gloomy 3.6 million in the fourth quarter of 1994 , and the current account deficit from a high of £22 billion to a best-case scenario of only £6 billion for the year . |