Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all 228,000 US reservists had been called into service , of whom 106,000 were deployed in the Gulf ( 20,000 being still there at the time of the June 11 announcement ) ; the total US armed forces contingent in the Gulf had numbered 541,000 . |
| 2 | Women hold one-third of tenure track and one-fifth of tenured posts , and still comprise only three-tenths of the total US psychological workforce . |
| 3 | The total UK overseas aid budget in 1991/92 was £1,800 million . |
| 4 | In terms of your organization , I think we 've got something and it wo n't surprise you , a little bit more complicated than the normal Trebor Mint factory , or whatever . |
| 5 | Even more spectacular was the Liverpool affair of August 1775 which occurred against the background of the American War of Independence , the beginning of which had interrupted trade to such an extent that some 3,000 seamen were swelling the ranks of the normal Liverpool unemployed . |
| 6 | They seem to have accepted both that ( a ) some interest payments had indeed — but for the special rules — stood to escape tax ; yet ( b ) the normal January 1986 tax payment covered liability for that fiscal year ‘ including tax on interest paid after the end of a society 's accounting year ’ — which was , ‘ in a sense , to tax [ those sums ] twice ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I know I have a lot to prove , ’ says the 27-year-old Yorkshire fast bowler . |
| 8 | Throughout Rough 's grey day at Ayr they chanted an age old football insult to the tune of My Darling Clementine — ‘ Where 's the mince-beef , where 's the mince-beef Alan Rough ? |
| 9 | Beverly Hills , Bel Air , the fabulous Disneyland Magic Kingdom and Universal Studies are all nearby . |
| 10 | Tensions between ethnic groups in Sind ( see pp. 37150-51 ) again erupted into major violence on Oct. 1 , 1989 , when members of the extremist Sind National Alliance ( SNA ) , demanding independence for the province , occupied Sukkar airport and burnt the Pakistani flag . |
| 11 | Recently we had the sorry spectacle of some of them voting against the progressive EC Social Chapter which is designed to improve the lot of the employee . |
| 12 | Colin croft — took 8 for 29 against Pakistan in only his second Test , the second-best West Indian Test figures of all . |
| 13 | The Videotronic VHS 36 fulfils all conditions for trouble-free operation . |
| 14 | The undulating East Anglian landscape stretched towards a not distant horizon . |
| 15 | In the case of Arcturus , the measured Rosat upper limit ( achieved during a 18.6-ks targeted observation ) is . |
| 16 | These results indicate that the residual liquid junction potential ( E j ) =E j ( gall bladder bile ) -E j ( calibr ) is -1.3 mV corresponding to a bias on the measured Ca 2 + activity of -9.5% . |
| 17 | Some time ago Lt. Col. A. P. Sykes presented the Society with a photocopy of an article which was published in ‘ The Bishop 's Castle Advertiser and Clun News ’ , Issue No. 33 , on the 17th May 1901 . |
| 18 | Thank you for your letter of the 17th February 19 … concerning … |
| 19 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |
| 20 | In Lichfield , Staffordshire last week for the 17th Lichfield Literary Dinner were authors Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington . |
| 21 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 22 | Examples range from efforts to structure sentencing decisions through legislative criteria ( for example , Criminal Justice Acts 1982 and 1988 ) to the far-reaching Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission . |
| 23 | I got to France on the 15th May 1915 and I stayed there until the 21st February 1919 . |
| 24 | On the 15th May 1583 , there moved to Halling its most distinguished resident , William Lambarde , who by this time was well known as the author of books on law , and of his Perambulation of Kent . |
| 25 | The answer is an amazing 4 miles , on the 15th November 1967 , between West Virginia and Ohio , USA . |
| 26 | On Sunday , the strong Yorkshire U-18s will provide a tough final match at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre . |
| 27 | In the Low Weald much of the coppice is hazel , which was used primarily for the construction of sheep hurdles and in the building industry , but is now of little economic value . |
| 28 | As the new seat of government for North Wales , it was the birth place in 1284 of its new English prince , the ill-fated Edward II . |
| 29 | On the character-oriented IBM 1401 computer ( McCracken 1962 ; Bell and Newell 1971 , pp. 225–34 ) instructions are from one to eight characters long . |
| 30 | Some Palestinians , however , leapt to the conclusion that the crash was staged in order to boost sympathy for the PLO leader ahead of a crucial meeting of the 90-member PLO central council which was due to open in Tunis today . |