Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after work began however , it was found that there were serious problems in making a secure , stable base for the embankment and thus progress was brought to a halt . |
| 2 | It was agreed that retail/service jobs provided neither a stable base for the economy nor decent jobs for the people of the area . |
| 3 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 4 | The staining of the epithelial cells is cytoplasmic , involving the basolateral and , to a lesser extent , the apical surfaces of the cells and EGF can also be seen in the mucus derived from the glandular ducts in many cases ( Fig 3C and D ) . |
| 5 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 6 | And there were strange parallels in the patterns of their childhood . |
| 7 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 8 | The Labour government was bound to take action : indeed there was a coordinated response through the Council of Europe . |
| 9 | It will further be argued that initial teacher training can not be treated as separate from other areas of teacher education and that changes in any one sector will inevitably influence all teacher education provision , initial , probation support and in-service and that in the light of this interdependence , strategies should be established for a coordinated response across the spectrum of teacher education provision . |
| 10 | Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force . |
| 11 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 12 | At the end of the day it 's a political decision from the council of ministers , but it seems to be going there with a firm endorsement of support from the commission . ’ |
| 13 | Others awaiting trial by the same court for corruption during Pasok 's eight-year term of office ( 1981-89 ) included the former Prime Minister , Andreas Papandreou , who stated after the verdict that not Athanasopoulos and his actions but " a collective political decision by a government " had been on trial . |
| 14 | Innovative policies during the campaign raise doubts over existing policies , and raise questions over why reforms were n't introduced earlier . |
| 15 | After going 2–0 up in 32 minutes through a goal by Lesley Hobley and a penalty by Denise Shorney , Hightown reduced the deficit a minute before the interval when Jackie Crook scored from the penalty spot . |
| 16 | Unrepentant , Palmer shifted his ground to an attack on the format of the Annual Estimates of Nigeria , which he developed into a campaign for the complete decentralization of the Treasury Department . |
| 17 | They will ‘ see ’ the woman who is crying as herself and not as some emotional ghost from the past . |
| 18 | Mandela on Oct. 12 said that the ANC was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalization if the business community could provide an alternative which would redress the economic imbalances in the country . |
| 19 | Specialising in engineering design relating to existing offshore installations , the company 's manpower levels reached over 500 personnel on a number of design projects . |
| 20 | The Netherlands and UK Ministers both opposed Franco-German proposals for the WEU 's eventual incorporation into the EC [ see p. 38022 ] . |
| 21 | They opened premises in the most prestigious part of the town . |
| 22 | THE superconducting transition temperature , T c , defines the point at which the free energies of the superconducting and normal states of a material become equal . |
| 23 | The preponderance of VGP paths lying along the eastern Pacific rim reported by Laj and others is therefore evidence of asymmetry between reversed and normal states in the field . |
| 24 | Viewed from space , the normal progress of the survey ship was like the passage of a comet . |
| 25 | The project therefore attempts to devise a more general descriptive framework for the intonation of the languages investigated and to establish a general theory of intonation structure which takes account of the different role of intonation in languages of different types . |
| 26 | Indeed , some of their officials expressed strong opinions on the subject at the time but have since decided to wait and , as one put it , ‘ let the team do the talking on the park in Newry . ’ |
| 27 | The British Ceramic Research Association , for instance , have a routine impact test for ceramic tiles in which a loosely supported square tile is struck a measured blow in the centre of one flat face . |
| 28 | The dispute within Solidarity reached its height during the June 29-July 1 meeting of the Solidarity citizens ' committees in Warsaw , at which some observers feared a complete break-up of the union , and at which Michnik publicly appealed to Walesa to step back from a potentially ruinous confrontation with the government . |
| 29 | possible interactions between the product ( contents ) and its immediate container ( product-container compatibility ) |
| 30 | As they were walking along a narrow passageway by the bar Mr Maltby accidentally nudged Mr Waterworth a former miner , and ‘ spilled twopence worth of beer . ’ |