Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 2 | It would normally not name its clients ( for commercial if no other reasons ) and accordingly they would not be identified ; thus they can not be indirect customers . |
| 3 | One of the options it allows a speaker is to select the element acting as subject as a marked thematic choice , an option not normally available since the subject is the unmarked theme of a declarative clause in English . |
| 4 | Thereafter it monitors the quality of the incoming electrical supply , smoothing out peaks and troughs and cutting in for real if the power cuts out completely . |
| 5 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |
| 6 | Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations . |
| 7 | The chairman of the London Board , Harry Randall , for example , was convinced of the need for Boards to earn a more ‘ commercial ’ rate of return , and his Board consistently had bigger surpluses and a higher level of self-financing than the others . |
| 8 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 9 | There is an interesting contrast between the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church in that the Church of Ireland tends to create new parishes out of old as the need arises while the Roman Catholic Church builds new churches where they are needed but keeps still to the already existing parish structure . |
| 10 | The [ Gold Coast ] line is equipped with Webb and Thompson 's instruments , and to explain the electric staff regulations , in a temperature somewhere around 90 degrees , to a native stationmaster who understands about as much of English as the average English railway official does of French , is a task which white officials feelingly affirm requires a considerable amount of patience , to say nothing of linguistic gymnastics . |
| 11 | Napoli is also a very popular variety , having coarser lumps of flat than the Milano and being made with a mixture of pork and beef . |
| 12 | It was still quite early , and banks of mist lay between the mountain peaks , touched by a haze of pink as the sun caught them . |
| 13 | The relationship between the number of shades of a colour ( or shades of grey if the image is monochrome ) and the number of bit-planes in the memory bank can be illustrated by a simple example . |
| 14 | Umbrellarama … a forest of umbrella 's brightens up the Hong Kong stadium 's cloak of grey as the rain sets in on finals day . |
| 15 | Viennese modernism , which had a briefer period of flourishing than the modernism of other great cities , was also the least oppositional , the least social-critical , of modernisms . |
| 16 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 17 | In fact , there was a trace of red when the sun was on it , but she did n't want to dwell on that at the moment ! |
| 18 | It was kept in the cathedral of Funchal until the chapel in Machico was rebuilt and the statue was returned in 1815 . |
| 19 | To the west he could see the outline of houses , probably a council estate , a trim row of identical roofs and square slabs of darkness broken by patterned squares of yellow as the early risers switched on their lights . |
| 20 | While through the spring haze yet further north , he could see hills of green where the city stopped . |
| 21 | There were no ‘ off-the-shelf ’ prototypes to work towards other than the DGH cure focused service with all the faults already commented on . |
| 22 | And the importance these parties assumed reflected less the intervention of thousands of intelligenty than the support provided by millions of workers and peasants . |
| 23 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 24 | The solidity gives security at high speeds which is matched by comfort and a surprising degree of quiet when the roof is up . |
| 25 | As has frequently been said , the right to be heard or to make representations is worth little unless the person making the representations knows , at least in general terms , the case he has to meet : see , for example , Lord Denning in Kanda v. Government of Malaya [ 1962 ] A.C. 322 , 337 . |
| 26 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
| 27 | I told them I told that I was going home for good when the sister hurted herself . |
| 28 | One , Wisal Wehbeh , said : ‘ I will never feel safe until militias are disbanded for good because the minute the Syrians go away , the militiamen come back . ’ |
| 29 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 30 | No one knows for sure when the levels become safe . |