Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed . |
| 2 | So in spite of Reaganite sneers and the activities of hostile employers ' organisations such as the Equal Employment Advisory Committee , progress for North American women and minority people is being made . |
| 3 | Training at Kingsholm could be all ticket in future if the crowds for this week 's visit of England is anything to go by … |
| 4 | She smelt of the exhalations of other people 's cigarettes and spilt wine , and she was expansive , with the air of someone who has spent time in the company of her like-minded fellows , not distracted and irritable as people are when they have tired themselves on the trail of trivial knowledge . |
| 5 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 6 | WHILST the accounts from last year 's World Cup are still not available , I.B. Secretary Keith Rowlands asserted in Catania recently that RWC profits would be more than the paltry £3 million mooted earlier this year by fellow director Marcel Martin . |
| 7 | Greer , for instance , aims to produce change by ‘ bending and selecting ’ the meanings of male psychologists ' words : ‘ What else can they be for ? |
| 8 | I hope that Germany , which has stood firmly in favour of a common foreign and security policy in the intergovernmental conferences that have just concluded and in the discussions on this week 's Maastricht treaty , will listen to its own exhortations and ensure that , whenever the decision is taken on recognition , it is made collectively , not unilaterally . |
| 9 | In 1981 a leaked memo from the Chief Medical Officer at the DHSS warned of the dangers to young children 's intelligence posed by lead in petrol , and in 1983 a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a strong recommendation that immediate action should be taken to remove lead from petrol . |
| 10 | It might also prove illuminating if we adopt a dialectical approach , considering , for instance , the conflicts between different characters ' conversational behaviour . |
| 11 | Montgomerie looked the sharpest fielder on a miserable day when tea was delivered to the fielders after one hour 's play . |
| 12 | The curds of two days ' cheesemaking are mixed together before being milled and pressed . |
| 13 | Barbara Vellacott introduced the paper giving the proposals for next year 's budget . |
| 14 | As usual , de Gaulle 's language was loaded : " dispersion " really meant pluralism ; " facilité " meant the French people 's understandable impatience to begin enjoying the rewards of twenty years ' hard work . |
| 15 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 16 | Accordingly , in my judgment the rules of natural justice prima facie apply to any such process of suspension in the same way that they apply to expulsion . ’ |
| 17 | In order to fulfil its declared aim of formulating the rules of human individuals ' behaviour and experience scientifically , psychology needs principally to study individual behaviour , unaffected by social interactions . |
| 18 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 19 | Far to mind the inside of a book , is to entertain one 's self with the products of another man 's brain . |
| 20 | The reasons for Black people 's poor housing are well documented but neither a formal nor a perceptual space for raising a discussion of such issues is available in the film . |
| 21 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 22 | ‘ The skills of any nation 's workforce are crucial to its economic well-being . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid the coach was delayed considerably by the state of the roads after last night 's storm . ’ |
| 24 | And if not I will move from the Chair , the adoption of the minutes of last year 's A G M. Those in favour of that ? |
| 25 | All the next day , women filed back and forth across the bridge carrying basketloads of mal — the manured pine-needle bedding from the cow-byres of last year 's monsoon settlements on Jimale — to spread on the paddy fields directly opposite . |
| 26 | To date , the banks have been among the pacesetters in western capital 's Drang nach dem Osten . |
| 27 | ALTERN 8 , MOBY , THE SHAMEN , SHADES OF RHYTHM , SL2 and SUNSCREEM are amongst the performers at this year 's DMC Technics Mixmag Awards taking place at The Royal Albert Hall on November 9 . |
| 28 | CBM has been consolidating its headquarters operation this year in Plymouth , on the heels of last September 's government-assisted acquisition of the former Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank . |
| 29 | Following hard on the heels of last year 's Burger King 's development is Pizza Hut Express , which has recently opened a 120-seater pizza slice operation located in Thorpe Park 's Dome . |
| 30 | Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account . |