Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | abnormal reactions to the senses , such as loud sounds or visual images . |
| 32 | Then the habitations fell away behind them as their ascent began between thorn-spattered banks and hangers of oak . |
| 33 | I am on the bus for Fifty-five minutes and the journey begins to get quite boring . |
| 34 | Other materials relative to specific modules are also being developed through regional initiatives and college consortia arrangements . |
| 35 | It represents an important contribution to the ongoing debate between non-disabled feminists and the disabled people 's movement about the construction of community care . |
| 36 | It is when positions become polarized between non-disabled feminists and disabled activists that it is seemingly lost . |
| 37 | There is a general assumption that degreasers are less aggressive products , based either on a glycol ether or sodium metasilicate , but some manufacturers apply the description to highly caustic products that would be more appropriately defined as caustic cleaners or decarbonisers . |
| 38 | Their preference is for broad agreements and mutual understanding . |
| 39 | The round pencil can be used for all subjects ; whilst the flat pencil can be used for broad strokes and the finest lines , when worn to a chisel edge . |
| 40 | — generally , dictionaries have more senses than necessary for broad applications but too few for specific applications ; |
| 41 | Within the USA , the states are increasingly flexing their muscles in the form of rushing through anti-takeover laws when a favoured local firm is threatened . |
| 42 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 43 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 44 | It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) . |
| 45 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 46 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 47 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 48 | I think they 've got their cost structures er a a little bit out of line and I have to be honest that I think that some of them have thought that er all you have to do is , you know , keep a brass plate outside your door for fifty years and the work would roll in . |
| 49 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 50 | ‘ And nobody 's slept in them for fifty years or more ! |
| 51 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 52 | what 's harder I wonder swimming , cycling and running for fifty miles or driving a racing car at top speed … |
| 53 | Mercifully the traffic progresses for fifty yards before it stalls again , and the Rasta does not pursue her further , but Robyn keeps a nervous eye on her rear-view mirror . |
| 54 | badge for fifty points and then you get advance certificate for a hundred . |
| 55 | The relationships formed between pregnant women and their obstetricians are complex . |
| 56 | Fine dust that passes through normal filters and collects in ductwork , if not removed , will contaminate rooms to which air is circulated , just as slime and algae in pipes and tanks will contaminate plumbing and produce bacteria-laden aerosols from taps , showers and WCs . |
| 57 | It is likely , however , that the most potent and effective form of communication will prove to be personal contact — through seminars , workshops , site visits and perhaps through short-term secondments that will feed proven experience from ‘ best ’ sites to others where there is scope for improvement . |
| 58 | Here he envisaged that the state apparatus could operate much more autonomously from direct control by capitalists , where the class struggle is equally balanced , creating a temporary history-making role for political leaders and state bureaucracies . |
| 59 | The first of the Wills titles was granted for political services but the family members served all parties . |
| 60 | Mr McLean and other northern area agents were visiting Downing Street you guessed right , his MBE was for political services when Mrs Thatcher and Mr Cecil Parkinson asked anxiously about Conservative prospects in the forthcoming Darlington by-election . |