Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government elected in 1974 decided to concentrate its housing resources on the needs of the inner city areas and coupled this with changes in the basis of the rate support grant which disadvantaged rural local authorities . |
| 2 | In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess . |
| 3 | The continuing popularity of the 6 hour course was encouraging because for many of the course subjects anything less than this time could leave trainees disappointed that all aspects of the programme were either not covered or covered too quickly . |
| 4 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 5 | The American owned company is mothballing the plant and at the moment do n't have to repay the millions of pounds of grant aid its received . |
| 6 | The plant opened just three years ago and Conner has n't been asked to repay the millions of pounds of grant aid its received . |
| 7 | Alternatively , stay at the grand manor houses whose impoverished owners will take B&B guests ( from £25 a night for a double ) under the Turismo de Habitação scheme . |
| 8 | Understood in this sense professionalization contests what ordinary policemen and women see as long-established , wellgrounded , practical experience . |
| 9 | ‘ Part of the framework on which both Government and Opposition base their economic and European policies was swept away . |
| 10 | For Figure 8 , I used a plotter , a mechanical drawing board whose moving pen is controlled by the electronic signals coming from the computer . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that Kandel and his school have made a major contribution to the study of the neurobiology of short-term processes in memory formation , both in terms of experimental insights and in bringing physiological respectability to a research field which many , in the aftermath of some of the débâcles of the 1960s , felt chary of entering . |
| 12 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |
| 13 | ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures . |
| 14 | Diminishing environment returns from refinements to petrol-driven cars and uncertainty over which alternative power sources to pursue will complicate the plan , according to motor industry experts who last week testified before the clean air and nuclear regulation subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee . |
| 15 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 16 | There are people now in the Wag Club whose musical digestive systems would probably collapse if they were to be inadvertently fed a powerchord . |
| 17 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 18 | Future advances in technology may disclose other , more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater . |
| 19 | And Stravinsky 's Wind Symphony , which opened this industrial concert ( repeated tonight ) is a raspingly erudite , tight piece of writing for wind instrument its bitter sweet sadness falling sonorously in the cathedral . |
| 20 | HOUSING CONVERSION FROM A METHODIST CHAPEL : A HOUSING GAIN BUT A LOSS TOT HE RURAL COMMUNITY ( SOURCE : AUTHORS AND A. TEED ) |
| 21 | All these , as well as many of their innocent relatives and acquaintances , were to find themselves condemned to the mercies of a capricious and often brutal exile administration which many were neither physically nor spiritually able to withstand . |
| 22 | The Court reversed a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by adjudging that Zacarias was not protected by the 1980 Refugee Act which required aliens seeking asylum to demonstrate " a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race , religion , nationality , membership of a particular social group or political opinion " [ see pp. 30411 ; 34541 ] . |
| 23 | They ca n't go up there , we 've got to do the best we possibly can , and the Government is doing all it possibly can to help by providing subsidies for housing associations by providing ninety five per cent of the rent rebates which this City Council gives , so on and so forth . |
| 24 | Howley , an ICI man , also took charge of two South American club finals our splendid 1964 photograph shows him setting off from Darlington station for Montevideo . |
| 25 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 26 | THE LAST BOY SCOUT ( Warner Bros ) Slam bang action pic whose hectic anti-drugs/sports corruption plot is really just a hook for inspired boy 's own banter between Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis . |
| 27 | Thus , rather than developing a broad perspective on women 's experiences of poverty , the chapter reviews what recent studies reveal ( and obscure ) about the impact of low household income on Black and white mothers caring for children . |
| 28 | Bruce , therefore , became a kind of guerilla leader whose main means of harming the English was to harass them rather than seek a formal confrontation with them . |
| 29 | They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts . |
| 30 | She attempted a comeback in 1989 , but lost in the first round of both events she played before being sidelined by a car accident which required surgery on her right knee . |