Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Labour fulfil the £35 billion of pledges being given by its spokesmen throughout the country ? |
| 2 | Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales . |
| 3 | Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales . |
| 4 | As far as registered land is concerned r110 of the Land Registration Rules 1925 covers the position : On a transfer of land subject to a charge or other incumbrance appearing on the register … covenants by either party to pay the money owing and to indemnify the other party may be added to the instrument of transfer and may be noted on the register . |
| 5 | In April of the same year William Symons and John Wood of Halling were bound over 10 shillings each to keep the peace against Richard Wissenden of Gillingham and Henry and Joan Jackson both of Gillingham . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) The inner strophes have 11 participles and no conjugated verb-forms , while the outer strophes each have a conjugated form repeated in the form of a chiasmus ( Is lust … list/is ; well knowes … knowes well ) ; to this parallel between strophes I and IV there also corresponds a set of echoing pairs within strophes II and III ( Injoyd — joy ; had — Had , — mad — Mad ; purpose — proposd ) . |
| 8 | In part that reflects the promotion it 's received from its UK distributor . |
| 9 | Everybody who buys MSDOS 5.0 gets a disk cache thrown in for free — same applies to DR DOS in its various versions . |
| 10 | With all his elaborate political machinery — his control of all the tradesmen in the town and of all the town 's six advowsons , his ownership of some two hundred houses each carrying a vote , his absolute control of the Mayor , the corporation and all the corporation offices — the Marquess of Exeter could not be absolutely certain that the remaining voters would not one day oust his candidates . |
| 11 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 12 | As Kate , Michael and Mike Mills each have a crack at the title line , Peter Buck offers one of his neatest trademark guitar hooks . |
| 13 | She suddenly felt as cold as the raw wind of March that swept the streets of London outside her office window . |
| 14 | A new beer store , some kitchen improvements a new central heating system and considerable redecorations were completed in 1982 and to cope with the new handicapping scheme along came an Apple computer at a cost of £3,000 ( 1985 ) , its importance being such that the by-laws published in March 1986 included the rule that every male competitor 's computer number was to be written on his card ! |
| 15 | Fragments from the Summary of 20 March 1986 give an idea of the flavour : |
| 16 | Packets of the mixed white and orange-brown powder most strongly implicated in this case each contained an average of 105 mg of inorganic arsenic trioxide ( As 2 O 3 ) . |
| 17 | With regard to the actual mechanics of testing , it is of course possible to apply the load to each specimen directly , by means of weights . |
| 18 | It is the hall mark of a contract of sale that seller and buyer each enter a commitment that there will be a transfer of ownership from the seller to the buyer . |
| 19 | It is not in any case possible to pin a particular explanatory model to a specific political strategy or standpoint . |
| 20 | Nineteen O eight put the match in there and have the coal and the wood is in there ready . |
| 21 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 22 | The debate over the most effective way to promote management education in general and to ensure effective provision in the public sector institutions led the Secretary of State in March 1971 to announce a plan for the creation of twelve Regional Management Centres ( RMCs ) . |
| 23 | Over the same period , Isabella Kacprzak , at Maria-Hilf-Strasse 17 , will be presenting three artists each showing a work from an earlier period and filling one room : ‘ Trittbrett ’ ( Running-board ) by Jurgen Drescher , an 8-metre long sculpture which , in the truest sense of the word , makes it impossible to jump aboard the moving train ; the abstract stereometric forms of rusted metal by Miroslaw Balka , and finally a folding screen with glass artefacts by Asta Groting . |
| 24 | Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell . |
| 25 | The government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) in early March each accused the other of failing to comply with the peace agreement formally signed in January to end 11 years of civil war [ see p. 38716 ] . |
| 26 | Howe 's second budget of March 1980 assumed a drop of 2 per Cent in the real national income , and continuing and rising unemployment . |
| 27 | ‘ Will that change the colour back ? ’ the father asked anxiously . |
| 28 | In the nine patients with normal gastric pH patterns eight had a normal oesophageal pH profile . |
| 29 | Four or five scenes may be enacted in one of his large recent works , whereas in earlier pieces , Pakenham would create a series of canvases each portraying a part of a greater whole . |
| 30 | The first is of course that covering the plaintiff 's pain , suffering and loss of amenity . |