Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is a coming-together of intentions to create visibility for key strategies and organizational movement .
2 HATS OFF Delighted workers cheer pay cut boss Richard
3 t Tests were used for two level factors ; ANOVA was employed for factors with several levels , and simple linear regression for continuous variables .
4 The next morning , Mr Mitterrand appointed Pierre Beregovoy as Prime Minister .
5 However , the British breeds are considered better for meat quality and taste and also for thrift and adaptability ; they remain in demand as sucklers , whereas the French and other large continental breeds are perhaps better suited as beef sires for commercial crossbreeding in dairy herds .
6 The failure of the conference underlined the absence of any institutions for co-ordinating policy on the western side of the Atlantic .
7 With the abandonment of transportation , prison sentences and penal servitude had correspondingly assumed their pivotal role within the criminal justice system , and the 1850s also saw the beginnings of reformatory institutions for young offenders .
8 Prisons and institutions for young offenders were closing down , probation was thriving , and more time was allowed to pay fines .
9 On the other hand , there were grave limitations in using existing adult education institutions for radical education and action .
10 It has been designed to respond to the rapid growth of banking and financial services both within the regions and at national and international level , and the increasing demand from banks , insurance companies , building societies and other financial institutions for relevant graduates .
11 Firstly , institutions for long-term care for elderly people in many countries consist of nursing homes and relatively few have the numbers of long-stay hospital beds evident in the United Kingdom .
12 Nevertheless , there is very often a total absence of any consideration within our residential institutions for sexual needs of those within them ; accompanied by stern suppression of any sexual relationship which may develop .
13 Gold and silver , once reserved for the service of cults and sovereigns , were displayed as plate by corporations like the City of London , the Inns of Court the City Companies ( fig. 40 ) or the colleges of Oxford or Cambridge and embodied as medals awarded by academies and other institutions for distinguished contributions to many fields of learning and professional activities ( Plate K ) .
14 The proposals , supported by the lead banks , are reported to have been sent to all 82 financial institutions for detailed consideration .
15 Having talked for an hour about wild animals the teacher posed a question to one of her class .
16 Its broad aims were to analyse large American companies in order to discover differences in return on investment ( ROI ) , to establish par values for ROI for different industries and their segments , and to attempt to explain variations in ROI across companies and their subsidiary business units by reference to strategic factors .
17 It 's a Christmas perk for local farmers to sell holly and mistletoe .
18 What needs re-affirming , and re-examining , is the complex inter-relation between moral languages and the history of nineteenth-century feminism .
19 But they do point to the complex inter-relation between official discourses and the domain of constructed personal experience and pleasure .
20 This is one point in the course , and it is but one example , where the inter-relation between Professional Studies and the Curriculum Course is a matter for explicit emphasis .
21 In some instances formal committees and similar bodies are established to provide a mechanism for the exchange of information and views between central government and the various interests within the national local government community .
22 ( 2 ) Modern critics of an attitude theory have often argued , not unconvincingly , that the methods of reasoning used in support of ethical views , or of trying to reach agreement on them by a fair minded exchange of views between reasonable persons , neither need be , nor commonly are , different from those used in factual matters .
23 Surely there is no convention that judges may adjust their views about legal rights for purely strategic reasons .
24 In the longer term self-help groups may emerge , where librarians can pool views about recent publications , or library suppliers may see openings for a more active approach .
25 CONFLICTING views about economic prospects emerged in two surveys published yesterday .
26 If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans .
27 These scales will be used to indicate mothers whose views about personal rights and maternal role conflict with their employment status .
28 Do they implicitly reinforce particular views about paid work and the inevitability of unemployment ( the social control model ) ?
29 Lib-Dem chiefs also plan to talk to prostitutes to find out their views about legalised brothels .
30 Continuing with the Lois Lane example , suppose that she still expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures ( ignoring the effects of any general price movements on their relative prices ) , and she has no views about general price movements .
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