Example sentences of "[noun prp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for president Truman the American troops dispatched to stop them were officially declared a United Nations army engaged in a ‘ police action ’ to restore peace . |
| 2 | But to show Ian the detrimental effects of talking when you should be working , Mrs Britten held up Ian 's painting in front of the class and systematically ridiculed his efforts ; this with Ian standing beside her going redder and redder with every word . |
| 3 | From the small town of Urubamba the fifty kilometres , journey from Pisac to Ollantaytambo was in a colectivo so packed it was difficult to see anything . |
| 4 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 5 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 6 | In the northern part of N.W. Germany the Stephanian transgresses over coal bearing Westphalian ; the Stephanian contains no coal . |
| 7 | In West Germany the socialist students ' organization , the SDS , had grown into the most successful and radical challenge to the status quo that the state had seen since 1945 . |
| 8 | Vanuatu The established posts of Director and applied hydrogeologist in the Department of Geology , Mines and Rural Water Supply are filled by BGS staff . |
| 9 | In Newham the psychogeriatric services were very dispersed ; the psychiatric hospital was outside the borough and the community psychiatric nurses and doctors were separately housed . |
| 10 | AFTER the uplifting win at Shrewsbury the gallant Quakers move out of the bottom four in Division Three and up to chairman Dick Corden 's stated target of fifth bottom . |
| 11 | Rugby The All Blacks ' Way — J J Stewart ( Crowood Press , Marlborough , Wilts : £9.99 ) . |
| 12 | Swindon the poor buggers scrape the barrel ; the whole of their midfield ( stlg2.5m ) could n't even buy Speed ( stlg2.8m ) . |
| 13 | In November 1992 , the Languages Lead Body submitted to SCOTVEC and NCVQ the national standards for general language learning purposes . |
| 14 | During March the armed forces , which had seized power in a military coup on Feb. 23 [ see pp. 38003-04 ] , established a timetable for a return to civilian rule . |
| 15 | Tony McClenaghan , a VAT Partner with accountants Touche Ross , said : ‘ From next March the basic functions of a holding company will no longer be accepted as business activities by Customs and Excise , and so there will be no right to deduct VAT incurred in carrying out takeovers , acquisitions , or defences against hostile bids . |
| 16 | On Thursday 2 March the military leaders recommended to Nicholas that he abdicate . |
| 17 | By the end of March the 15 members of the IT department at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby will have completed an ITED programme . |
| 18 | In March the Austrian authorities announced visa restrictions on the entry of Romanians into their country which prompted a rush by an estimated 35,000 refugees to cross the border before the ban came into force [ see also p. 37689 ] . |
| 19 | In March the Lebanese authorities took control of the port of Beirut and smaller ports in greater Beirut . |
| 20 | Kwik Saves were judged the worst supermarkets and Wimpys the worst restaurants . |
| 21 | At the bottom of the Grand Canyon the oldest rocks of all are exposed in a gorge lined with vertical cliffs . |
| 22 | In McMahon v. Dollard the two defendants were part of a group of ‘ rockers ’ dressed in the appropriate ‘ uniform ’ of black leather jackets , and chanting anti ‘ mod ’ slogans . |
| 23 | Sophie had given Pascoe the bare details as they ran back from the restaurant ; now she told the rest . |
| 24 | The opportunity to create a zero-investment , perfect hedge is shown by the two disequilibrium returns X and Y. The two securities have the same risk ; i.e. the same level of sensitivity to factor f 1 and equilibrium should lie on the APL at point Z. The return on security X is higher than that of Z implying that X is underpriced and Y is overpriced . |
| 25 | Barclay Plc uses a predetermined overhead rate in applying overheads to product costs on a direct labour cost basis for cost centre X and on a machine hour basis for cost centre Y. The following details the estimated forecasts for l9X1 : |
| 26 | In what was ultimately to become Venezuela the revolutionary implications of the movement were decisive ; a Junta in Caracas swept aside the existing administration and , in the name of preserving America for Ferdinand VII , disowned the authority of the Cadiz Regency , that is of the legal government of Spain . |
| 27 | THE FRANK & WALTERS The deep thoughts beneath the clownish guise of the best ever cabaret band to come out of Cork … |
| 28 | Andrew Wright represents the Tories , Nicola Potter Labour and Gillian Fiske the Liberal Democrats . |
| 29 | In the Collembola and Diplura similar muscles also occur in all other segments except the last , but in the Thysanura and Pterygota the flagellar segments are devoid of muscles . |
| 30 | Mr Moore now works for engineering consultants MorganMoore , based in Pennine House , West Street , Middlesbrough the same premises used by MPL at the time of the alleged fraud . |