Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Hoggart , for example , notes in 1951 that the adult tutor is necessarily forced to face challenges to the self evident value of literature given the types of student involved . |
| 2 | There was however some danger of developments of this kind given the resources of the powers that were active in the region . |
| 3 | For each firm in the market , it is possible to define its profit maximizing action ( an output or price ) or best response given the actions of all other firms . |
| 4 | There were fears of a crackdown in those republics demanding their independence , especially the Baltic states given the events of January 1991 [ see p. 37944-45 ] and more recent attacks on border posts [ see pp. 38302 ; 38350 ] . |
| 5 | The absence of serial correlation in the residuals is an important finding given the requirements of the McCallum technique . |
| 6 | The weather had turned a chill grey , and a brisk wind scattered the ashes of half-a-hundred fires . |
| 7 | In the seconds when Chesarynth was coming to realize that she actually mattered , another white car distorted the draughts with its brake-force . |
| 8 | Why had n't Richard turned the lights on ? |
| 9 | The parish priest baptized the babies into the Christian faith . |
| 10 | These considerations affected the boundaries of the new districts . |
| 11 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 12 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 13 | A team of six inspectors compiled the reports from visits to homes over last three months , and from almost a thousand questionnaires . |
| 14 | In 1721 a statute fixed the hours of London 's journeymen tailors and divided their day into two half-pay periods . |
| 15 | In the last century , before the Suez Canal was cut , when the Indian Army passed Dendera on their march from the Red Sea to Alexandria , the sepoys identified the figures of Hathor with Shiva 's bull , Nandi , and much to the surprise of their British officers , worshipped in the columned halls of the temple . |
| 16 | It could accordingly be a long time before resolutely indolent or constitutionally inept directors regarded the problems of raising money as a reason for modifying their behaviour . |
| 17 | In the end , the judge treated the receipts as ‘ part of the general deceit concerning the dishonest jewellers , the general pretence by them that it was a proper jeweller 's shop . ’ |
| 18 | She shook her head slightly , trying to clear her thoughts , but a tiny suspicion , the merest thread of possibility persisted : it just might be that the man whose initial scattered the pages of Elise 's diary before abruptly ceasing , three weeks before her death , could have some bearing on the mystery . |
| 19 | While the surviving ex-guerrillas occupied the positions of responsibility , the rank and file were drawn from their old IP opponents of the Civil War , those who had no reason to love Osvaldo . |
| 20 | A nine-member committee of past-participant gallery directors selected the exhibitors from more than 250 applicants . |
| 21 | Blue green mar ram grass , white daisies , scarlet pimpernel , pink storks bill , yellow birds foot trefoil , silver-veined blue-grey leaves of sea holly ; flowers of the seashore speckled the dunes with colour . |
| 22 | Secondly , even when some paths did have to be pursued in parallel because their scores were above the threshold , the finite-state arrangement of hypotheses restricted the candidates for any particular slot , and cut short the combinatorics through backwards pruning ( Fig. 9.2 , point A ) . |
| 23 | The establishment of permanent ambassadors marked the beginnings of a diplomatic service . |
| 24 | The Belgian Government considered that the problem raised in the case arise solely because the institutions of the European Communities fixed the quotas per member state . |
| 25 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 26 | Had another child taken the nuts without permission then parents would probably treat the moral rights of ownership seriously since there are close legal analogies ; in this case with stealing . |
| 27 | Brady 's own barrister described the assault allegations as scant and the Judge awarded no damages for personal injury . |
| 28 | In the context of international bond markets , such difficulties are of particular importance given the efforts at deregulation made by other centres in recent years , which could attract euromarket intermediaries to the relevant financial centres . |
| 29 | Even in its construction the shop intertwined the strands of the counter-culture and the music scene . |
| 30 | Over the following weeks , Portadown loyalists harassed the police in retaliation for what they claimed was police persecution . |