Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prismed bomb aimer 's station provided excellent visibility for the pin-point accuracy required . |
| 2 | You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure : after all , prevention is better than cure . |
| 3 | The book is written specifically for engineers and engineering undergraduates to present this computational technique as a practical tool in engineering , keeping the mathematical content to a minimum . |
| 4 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 5 | But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin . |
| 6 | Such opposition is backed by appeals to protect the small retailer as a unique feature of Japanese culture against an alien Western transplant . |
| 7 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 8 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | The mother who speaks with obvious dread about a forthcoming visit to the dentist may be responsible for unintentionally passing on that fear to her child . |
| 10 | The exhibit 's called ’ Yellow Peril ’ , and is supposed to question the way we in the west think about the Chinese . |
| 11 | Our message is that have a think about an alternative possibility , about being much more high-key , much more pro-active rather than reactive . |
| 12 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 13 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 14 | A man of action all his life , David went into the Army in the RAMC as a young man and later trained as a State Registered Nurse in a civilian hospital . |
| 15 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 16 | This defence of housework is all the more necessary because housework passes unmentioned in the predominant stereotype of the housewife as a leisured homemaker . |
| 17 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 18 | ‘ While you provide the contrast as a proper femme fatale . ’ |
| 19 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 20 | Shorty was also a good guide and mentor for a growing lad , as good a father as any man could want . |
| 21 | The key feature of effective mentor schemes is a genuine consistent interest on the part of the mentor for the young person . |
| 22 | Details have still to be worked out , but Chez reckons that with the aid of his home computer and his Nintendo Boot Sale Blitz game , he and I can milk off a tidy sum whilst still leaving the club with a small profit . |
| 23 | She 'd changed her earlier shorts and T-shirt for a cool beige wrap-style cotton dress , belted at the waist with a strip of tan leather . |
| 24 | With the increase in public transport costs , road tax and insurance , more and more people are changing to the humble bike as an alternative form of transport . |
| 25 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 26 | Day at leisure , or hire a bike for an extra day . |
| 27 | Whether they learn their home stream 's distinctive smell during a discrete sensitive period is undecided . |
| 28 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 29 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |
| 30 | ‘ … is would be helpful if the Listing Division of the Department of the Environment could revise their own guidelines in order that certain pubs could receive more protection as an integral whole . |