Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greek President Constantine Caramanlis presented the awards , The annual awards , each worth 100,000 dollars , were established by shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in memory of his son , Alexander ( 23 ) , who died in a plane crash . |
| 2 | It has some forty inlaid black opals and similar gemstones , each worth 10 GCs . |
| 3 | The other two are fine rubies , each worth 1,200 GCs . |
| 4 | Under the EPA scheme , each SO2 producer would be allocated a certain number of " allowances " , each worth one tonne of SO2 emission per year , according to present emission rates and other factors . |
| 5 | Amongst them were the rare white , or pink , variety unique to the Toraja , with china-blue eyes like a Siamese cat , and each worth twenty times more than an ordinary buffalo . |
| 6 | This not only leaves little for continued growth into the future , but also means that the society 's solvency margins have been reduced , so inhibiting its investment freedom and with it , investment performance . |
| 7 | With some notable exceptions it assists the process of individual growth and development but does little for collective growth and development . |
| 8 | In the 1960s Kennedy Round of multilateral trade negotiations , the much-acclaimed reductions in barriers to manufactures , trade did little for those LDC 's that were poorly placed to produce , let alone export them . |
| 9 | However , this promises to do little for educational standards ; sometimes these tutors have neither materials nor premises to work from , and hold classes under trees . |
| 10 | In essence , there is little for local authorities to do , and what does need to be done can wait at least a couple more years ! |
| 11 | With more and more bodegas setting up in Rioja — there was 62 in 1985 , 140 by 1991 — and with sales either static or declining , there seems little for recession-hit bodega bosses to laugh about . |
| 12 | Down there they will escape the buffetings of the storms to come and there too , where temperatures are much lower , their bodily process will slow down and so use less energy at a time in the year when there is little for these animals to eat . |
| 13 | Events of 1989 have done little for Australian image . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , however , the inquiry did little for public confidence in the independent judicial monitor . |
| 15 | There 's been very little for United fans to cheer about this season . |
| 16 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 17 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 18 | This second study differed only in that during initial training the subjects received conditioning trials with a different stimulus ( a light ) in the context that was to be used for the test . |
| 19 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 20 | Journalists can do little about legal costs and insurance , but they should be well versed in the legal defences which give them more latitude than is commonly thought . |
| 21 | ‘ I hope for a rapprochement between our two countries , which know very little about each other , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Apart from which , we barely know each other , know very little about each other . ’ |
| 23 | The Lollipop timetable of one night stands meant that they visited seventy-two venues in twelve weeks ; although they did not venture further than St. Louis , it was exhausting and afterwards they could remember very little about each town . |
| 24 | Medieval brewers alas knew precious little about good housekeeping practices . |
| 25 | For many freshwater hobbyists , invertebrates are a whole new departure ; we know little about many species , but one with a longer history of captive care is the Apple Snail . |
| 26 | So it 's no wonder that we have heard very little about dental dams . |
| 27 | Users know little about fault-tolerant technology in general , he stated , and even less about actual hardware , although Tandem Computers Inc 's offerings are somewhat more familiar . |
| 28 | Indeed we know very little about contemporary kin relationships ( Finch 1989 ) and can only speculate as to how increased rates of divorce and remarriage will affect family relationships . |
| 29 | Not only is there the question of the availability of data on lifetime income , but also we know little about key relationships of the model such as the bequest function and the intergenerational association of earnings . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew very little about Irish League football when I came back from Nottingham Forest , except that Linfield and Glentoran were the top two clubs . |