Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ motivation ’ for the session we watched was a backcloth of a ski slope ; the children were divided into 2 teams and given a skier each to race down the slope . |
| 2 | Only the exhortation to ‘ all Party organizations ’ on 28 March 1933 to carry out a nation-wide boycott aimed at Jewish businesses , goods , doctors , and lawyers , starting on 1 April , concentrated explicitly on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 3 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 4 | In particular , we go beyond the introduction to the tabular summary given in Chapter 2 to consider how the presentation of a table can be manipulated to reveal the information content to best effect . |
| 5 | It is , indeed , a great deal easier to point out the irrelevance of much of what is happening at the moment than to have confidence in any particular alternative . |
| 6 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 7 | On the proposal in Recommendation 18 to set up a committee to advise on priorities for grant-aid , he argued that this would help to keep the WEA on its toes , true to its traditional concerns for rigorous study of subjects appropriate to understanding contemporary society . |
| 8 | A contingent of 250 United States troops arrived in Gabarone on Jan. 14 to carry out a two-week training exercise with the 4,500-strong Botswana Defence Force . |
| 9 | The first was over £1 million to set up the George Pitt-Rivers Chair of Archaeological Science in memory of the distinguished anthropologist , the late Captain George Pitt-Rivers . |
| 10 | Publisher Mr Hamlyn and Westminster City Council have donated around £1 million to take over the Opera House for a week and subsidise tickets for first-time opera and ballet-goers . |
| 11 | The locals say they believe he was a swine thief , but it all seemed a bit serious to represent merely the chase and capture of a robber who stole pigs belonging to the monks of Jervaulx Abbey . |
| 12 | Laos Following the award to BGS in August 1990 of a six-month Asian Development Bank consultancy , a BGS-led team comprising a geologist , an exploration geochemist , a bibliographer and a cartographer , together with a mineral economist from British Mining Consultants Limited , worked at the Department of Geology and Mines ( DGM ) , Vientiane , between September 1990 and March 1991 to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |
| 13 | When Oldham Magistrates granted summonses against Brady and Hindley for the murder of the child following a private application , the Director , having already decided that in all the circumstances it would not be in the public interest to institute proceedings against them , used his statutory powers under Section 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to take over the conduct of the case and to discontinue it under Section 23 . |
| 14 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 15 | The Black Sea countries ( Bulgaria , Romania , the Soviet Union and Turkey , with Greece and Yugoslavia as observers ) met in July 1991 to work out an economic co-operation agreement [ see p. 38352 ] . |
| 16 | The Swiss Party of Labour ( PvdA ) decided on Sept. 7 to strike out the word " communism " and remove all references to democratic centralism from its statutes . |
| 17 | President Jaime Paz Zamora announced the formation of a Presidential Advisory Commission on July 7 to set out the basis for a constitutional reform programme to modernize the state . |
| 18 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 19 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | GERALD BRODRIBB 'S article on wicketkeeper-bowlers in the February issue and Jack Burrell 's interesting letter on the same subject in March reminds one that another wicketkeeper able to turn over a respectable arm was Warwickshire 's Geoff Humpage , whose most unusual bowling feat occurred in the Warwickshire v Gloucestershire match at Edgbaston in 1980 . |
| 21 | As the Bank of England poured in £10 billion to prop up the pound , the four big banks — Natwest , Barclays , Midland and Lloyds — and insurance giants the Pru were busy coining it by speculating . |
| 22 | In order to help fund the costs of unification the West German federal government and the Länder ( states ) agreed on May 16 to set up a German Unity Fund to raise DM95,000 million ( US$1.00=DM1.6443 as at May 14 , 1990 ) on the capital markets over the ensuing 4@1/2 years ( half to be raised by federal government and half by the Länder ) . |
| 23 | The Danish government said that its decision on Aug. 9 to take back the waste was made to " protect Denmark 's international reputation " . |
| 24 | It is , therefore , particularly gratifying to be able to report that , in response to the case for maintaining the level of purchases made by the Library with the support of other Scottish research libraries , and users , both local and remote , Government agreed in December 1989 to restore substantially the level of the Library 's Purchase Grant in 1990–91 by allocating an additional £200,000 for purchases for the Library 's collections . |
| 25 | Whilst all can be accessed via the keyboard , it is planned to provide each member with an individual menu containing all the functions necessary to carry out a prescribed set of activities . |
| 26 | In that case , one way of inflicting a loss of profit in retaliation for reneging on the agreement would be to revert to the NE of the one-shot game , either permanently or for a number of periods sufficient to wipe out the gains from reneging , if that is possible . |
| 27 | But while the handicapped get the support they need the carers are ofrten forgotten and it was this which insprired the Princess Royal to set up a special trust . |
| 28 | Environment ministers from 32 European countries plus Canada and the United States , which together produced 70 per cent of the world 's CO2 emissions , met in Bergen , Norway , on May 8-16 to follow up the 1987 Brundtland report on improving the global environment [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 29 | The first young lady ready to pay off the mortgages on his land can be Lady Lark tomorrow . |
| 30 | In this way , NPAs will be informed of all proposals likely to alter significantly the character of moorland , including non-grant-aidable changes . |