Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since in general ‘ politics ’ should not be discussed in school , it is easy for teachers to claim that they have no strong opinions about subjects like , say , the National Front . |
| 2 | At private meetings over meals or in his office North would produce his spiral notebook or pieces of yellow legal paper , asking ‘ how in God 's name we can expect these young men and women to fight against Communism when this is what they 're up against ’ , and often breaking into tears . |
| 3 | Women did find a new means of articulating their experiences by publishing , yet it is a mistake to believe that the huge growth in women 's writing went hand in hand with equally momentous shifts in attitudes toward marriage . |
| 4 | Our expertise is recognised by boat builders and owners and has led to a constant flow of prestigious projects for yachts from the yards of Camper & Nicholson , Valdettaro , Oyster , Palmer Johnson and Jankel Schooners . |
| 5 | As the IRB meets in New Zealand to consider far-reaching proposals for changes to the game 's laws , CHRIS THAU talked to the main |
| 6 | It provided for total investments of Epounds 14,500 million , of which Epounds 9,600 million would be allocated to the public sector and the balance to the private sector . |
| 7 | Because it was a Peculiar , the priory church had four wardens — one of their duties was to enforce the wearing of woolly hats on Sundays : failure to comply brought a fine of fourpence . |
| 8 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 9 | They also fail to show the steady decline in the amount of grazing land as shown in Figure 8.1 and the complex two-way flows between uses also shown in Figure 8.1 . |
| 10 | He had , after all , defended these lush romances of giants and magicians and genii as ways of reaching truths that were not accessible from any other track . |
| 11 | Between 8 and 12 May 5 Corps had taken the surrender of the six assorted groups of Cossacks , White Russians , Caucasians and Ukrainians referred to in Chapter One . |
| 12 | There were conflicting accounts of clashes between Issa and Oromo groups in Djibouti and Ethiopia on July 9-15 ; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ' representative in Djibouti apologized to the government for what he said was an incorrect report from the UNHCR that as many as 250 people had been killed . |
| 13 | Parental views of schools are influenced by television programmes particularly by the way that stereotypes are reinforced in drama . |
| 14 | Matched pairs of applications were sent for each post — one with an English name and one with an Asian name . |
| 15 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 16 | In addition , these authors reported the personal communication of three possible unpublished cases of carcinoids developing in patients with sporadic Zollinger-Ellison sydrome . |
| 17 | Advance copies of reports are provided to the press and other interested parties at a cost of about £6,000 a year . |
| 18 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 19 | To have a chance of winning one of these fabulous pairs of boots all you have to do is find the following eight words in the word square : LINE 7 , GORETEX , GT RIFT , RAIDER , PANDA , RANGER , ROVER and LADY GT . |
| 20 | Within this context , this is the description of the customs , beliefs and traditions of human societies , from which come the specific meanings of words ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 21 | Finally , there are ‘ form and routing templates ’ which present structured documents , such as order forms or help-desk requests to users and then control the way in which they are routed . |
| 22 | In response to these events , the monetary authorities of countries other than the USA decided that they would no longer intervene to stabilize their exchange rates against the dollar , since this would have meant their accumulating large quantities of dollars for which ( a ) the exchange value was uncertain , and ( b ) the option of convertibility into gold at a fixed price had been terminated . |
| 23 | I have obtained the permission of the chairman to sell the shares as required by the company 's inhouse rules for directors ' dealings . |
| 24 | You can be sure that colour predictions for the new season always include the rich and beautiful and brilliant colours of September , those intense rich deep tones which year after year we feel that we must use now , the lovely gold and mustard and chartreuse of apples and pears , the rich reds of berries , the deep purples and wines of plums and blackberries , the intense dark indigo of the Autumn night sky and the deliciously delicate neutrals of misty Autumn days — all there for your delight . |
| 25 | He was actively involved in the preservation and revival of local crafts such as glass-blowing , leather-work , dyeing , spinning , and weaving , and maintained contacts with craftsmen in various parts of Palestine . |
| 26 | There are plenty of examples of such a control being effected by the use of coercive sanctions in the world today — from the killing of real or imagined enemies by despots to the widespread use of torture and incarceration in prisons and camps in many different countries . |
| 27 | They really mattered in a society remote from our own where the prestige of many professions , including the polite ranks of clergy and the armed services , catered to the motivations only of duty , vocation , or ambition . |
| 28 | Rose and Peters argue that there are three broad groups of actors who have traditionally been in favour of higher spending , at least since 1945 : the producers of public goods and services , including leading politicians ; the consumers of public spending , including voters and welfare recipients ; and the suppliers of public goods and services — public officials and professionals dependent upon the state for their income . |
| 29 | Here we can distinguish two broad groups of countries . |
| 30 | Thus five broad groups of factors were suggested : |