Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onshore , our plant change engineering [ PCE ] contract for Shell Northern Plants at St. Fergus continued to make good progress and we were successful in being able to extend this contract to Shell 's gas terminal at Mossmorran . |
| 2 | Onshore , the company 's plant change engineering ( PCE ) contract for Shell Northern Plants at St. Fergus continued to make good progress and the company was successful in extending this contract to Shell 's gas terminal at Mossmorran . |
| 3 | The year has seen the virtual completion of the final phase of the rationalisation remits announced shortly after my appointment as Chairman three years ago . |
| 4 | He joined the company in 1957 and succeeded Sir John Harvey-Jones as chairman 30 years later . |
| 5 | The CPD programme was consolidated and two residential courses for Part III students were held . |
| 6 | In recent years , several new materials have been used for base thermal layers which are effective at keeping you dry . |
| 7 | A key feature of NT is its MP capability and Corollary says the NT Hardware Abstraction Layer ( HAL ) for C-bus II systems contains more than 3,000 lines of code and was complete last month . |
| 8 | It will be useful for processor hungry applications — spreadsheets , graphics applications , and multitasking spring readily to mind . |
| 9 | Nonlinear devices such as triode thermionic valves and various kinds of transistor belong to this latter category . |
| 10 | Specialists were three times more likely to be continuing their studies , mainly registering for PhD higher degrees . |
| 11 | These were known as Part III Authorities ( and were abolished by the 1944 Act ) . |
| 12 | The codes used for PC compatible computers are those defined by the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) . |
| 13 | The most compelling numbers are for CO 2 emissions . |
| 14 | This process is complicated by the differences in salary , qualification and experience which exist between field social workers who hold legal responsibility for such children and their residential colleagues who provide care for those children who are placed in children 's homes . |
| 15 | For instance marital problems can often lead to not talking , spending less time together , planning separate lives . |
| 16 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 17 | Medical practices for instance two days beforehand before coming in for three days . |
| 18 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 19 | See for instance Painted Ports by A. G. Course ( Hollis and Carter , 1961 ) . |
| 20 | Bridging between the LANs will enable interconnection where necessary ; for instance financial records should be transferable between the Library 's ordering system and the Accounts Department , and bibliographic data will be available to plant record enquirers . |
| 21 | For instance many products are promoted as being the " in thing " , whose consumption will make you " one of the crowd " . |
| 22 | For instance those patients with a normal haemodynamic response and a clear admission CXR ( 70% of the group ) had a 1-year mortality of 1% compared to 30% in the remainder . |
| 23 | Lois is considering two alternative strategies : ( a ) buy and sell an equal number of contracts in each commodity , for instance ten contracts with a spread ratio of unity ; ( b ) buy and sell an equal value of contracts in each commodity , for instance 10 in kryptonite and 50 in phlogiston , with a spread ratio of 5 . |
| 24 | We may use physical methods of measuring light intensity that are apparently independent of our subjective experience — for instance photosensitive cells — but these are accepted because they correlate to a greater or lesser degree , under normal circumstances , with subjective experiences of brightness . |
| 25 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 26 | Other examples of unmodified death assemblages occur as a result of catastrophic mortality , for instance mass deaths due to drowning or hibernation/aestivation deaths . |
| 27 | The special circumstances of the Great War undoubtedly played some part in bringing about change : for instance several soldiers from Canada or Australia who married women from Edinburgh were from better-off families than their brides . |
| 28 | For instance older animals are less likely to fall in than younger animals ( Andrzejewski & Rajska , 1972 ) , suggesting an element of experience is involved . |
| 29 | At the same time as the evaluation of housing tenure was strengthening one base of working class Tory support , however , certain other bases were being eroded , for instance paternalistic relations within industrial enterprises were in many cases being undermined by the growth of industrial concentration and rise of large multidivisional enterprises , and the development of trade unionism within these . |
| 30 | Er a lot of the things are made specially for us , for instance these spoons . |