Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was Mr Chairman as all the budget process have been perhaps so perhaps some budget Direct Committee when in fact .
2 He spoke brilliantly without notes for half an hour .
3 The enabling technologies for such an information and communications centre are already more or less in place .
4 These include requiring a Court before giving a custodial sentence to consider a report by the probation service and to give reasons for such a sentence , except for the most serious offences ; also to satisfy itself that the offence was serious enough to justify the use of custody .
5 Speculations on the reasons for such a correlation include the following possibilities :
6 Speculations on the reasons for such a correlation include the following possibilities :
7 The reasons for such a development are much the same .
8 The parallel with the anorexic process is clear , and the reasons for such a substitution in both cases are probably similar .
9 If serious disturbance is suspected , outside clinical consultation may be required , and the client is informed of the reasons for such a referral .
10 The interruption is so violent that we are led to infer other reasons for such a display besides his annoyance with McKendrick himself and , significantly , Stoppard 's comments hint at this in the words " uncharacteristic " and surprising " .
11 They had discussed the possible reasons for such a meeting as they made their way to the farm , and all feared the worst .
12 It may be that we are becoming a more ‘ criminal ’ nation as the increase in crime rates would suggest , but this can not just be assumed and it is important to be aware of other possible reasons for such an increase .
13 The reasons for such an assumption were made quite clear during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries .
14 Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption .
15 This poses insurmountable problems of effectively transporting the powder through such a system and therefore they are not likely to have application in the warehouses under consideration .
16 The £5m bid is twice as much as the offer from Argyll which owns the Presto and Safeway chains for half the ground in 1987 .
17 Mr Evans seems to have recognised that the prospective decade of self-sufficiency in oil promised a unique opportunity for such a revival and hence the conditions in which a sympathetic government could satisfy the movement 's ambition .
18 God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area .
19 Only the Holy Father can give permission for such a tomb to be opened . ’
20 From the left bank of the canal , the green fields of Gloucestershire swept up in a gentle rise for half a mile , there to be a terminated by a line of stately elms .
21 Chapter 9 considers some of the issues arising when a contract for such a project is placed with an outside organization .
22 There may be a case for such a restraint upon popular power , but it can not be a democratic one .
23 Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form .
24 Relying heavily on a low sulphur coal strategy in place of FGD , may create problems which could yet undermine even the short-term economic case for such a policy .
25 The protection for the person called upon to produce documents lies , thus , not in a limitation by category of documents ( ‘ reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge ’ ) but in the fact that the applicant must satisfy the court that , after balancing all the relevant factors , there is a proper case for such an order to be made .
26 Can I say that as part of the budget discussions , this year and last year , the labour group went over all the services that the City Council provides with a fine tooth comb and argued out the case for all the spending that we then put forward in our budget .
27 The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division .
28 A decision , for example , to make separate provision for slow-learning students will mean less provision for all the rest .
29 Provision for all the completion formalities will be necessary , such as :
30 An instruction from the minister is the final word within a department , an excerpt from the Cabinet minutes conveying the decision of a committee of the Cabinet or of the full Cabinet outranks all other orders and is the source of direction for all the policy decisions taken lower down in the government .
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