Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the finest Continental pieces is a Tuscan or South Italian vase made around 1470 painted with the arms of the Duke of Calabria ( est. £15,000–25,000 ; $29,100–48,500 ) . |
| 2 | The party 's total vote was just half that given to the Communists in a similar number of boroughs . |
| 3 | It is significant that they were known as Tarianas , a title closely resembling that given to the tribes of Turania in Turkistan who were associated with the Serpent , the Taryans . |
| 4 | It would not be absurd , nor contrary to the rule of law , for Parliament to prefer the precise construction adopted by the tribunal to that given by the courts . |
| 5 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 6 | For the Sun and the Daily Mirror , where it is possible to compare with the numbers in 1978 , both show significant increases — the Sun from thirty-two to forty-nine and the Daily Mirror , even more , from twenty-six to forty-five . |
| 7 | From the outset of the march , the demonstrators observed a different route to that notified to the police . |
| 8 | These figures could be ten times higher or lower depending on the circumstances . |
| 9 | In making his decision , he seeks the advice of the judiciary , but if he has good reason for doing so , he is , as a matter of law , entitled to set a tariff period different from that recommended by the judges . |
| 10 | Rates in Gloucester were due to fall under the Tories . |
| 11 | ‘ Part of that refers to the ways in which people fall short in their living , which is what we call sin , so it is not simply about that . |
| 12 | Each differs in the outcomes which it selects as the most important ones to be studied . |
| 13 | It is not possible to go into the details of the technology involved or to mention all the companies now producing hardware and software for the hotel industry , but to name a few : |
| 14 | The Army 's right to go on the streets is only one of the issues on which Eva Burrows has strong opinions . |
| 15 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 16 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 17 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 18 | While the Senate had agreed after Collor 's resignation that impeachment was no longer a legal possibility , it voted by 73 votes to eight to continue with the proceedings . |
| 19 | And that goes for the doctors I admire as well . |
| 20 | Oh over eighty pounds , but then a lot of that goes on the horses with the Fox favourites . |
| 21 | The largest group affected is , as we have already noted , that consisting of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 22 | Section 226 imposes on the directors of every company the duty to prepare for each financial year of the company a balance sheet and a profit and loss account ( its ‘ individual accounts ’ ) and section 227 imposes a like duty on directors of a company which is a parent company additionally to prepare a consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss account ( ‘ group accounts ’ ) The basic and over-riding principle is that the balance sheets must give a true and fair view , in the case of individual accounts ‘ of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year ’ and in the case of group accounts ‘ of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole , so far as it concerns the members of the company . ’ |
| 23 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 24 | Then there is a range of measurements of the functioning of the physiological systems of the animal ; we can make measurements which tell us how hard a time the animal is having trying to cope with the conditions which are imposed upon it . |
| 25 | Indeed , those in the Behaviouralist camp saw themselves as working within an intellectual framework altogether different from that inhabited by the Realists . |
| 26 | One of the most important of the many articles manufactured in this shop are the steel carriage springs , each of which is submitted to a test quite as severe as that applied to the guns in Woolwich Arsenal , before it is sent out to administer to the comfort of the travelling public , the test chiefly consisting in the dropping of heavy weights upon the springs . |
| 27 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 28 | The usual justification for paying the manager of a business a salary which is out of all proportion greater than that received by the men on the shop floor , who have direct contact with the product or with the machinery , is that the extra payment is for " responsibility " but this is just another name for " status in a power hierarchy " . |
| 29 | If a given investment project within the domain of operation of capitalist enterprises were considered desirable as part of an investment plan ( to satisfy a definite ‘ social need ’ , to gain export revenue , to develop a ‘ growth industry ’ , to preserve employment ) and yet the capitalist enterprises concerned were unwilling to invest then the investment planning authorities would have two broad options : either nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability , or ‘ distort ’ the market to render the project sufficiently profitable to appeal to the enterprises . |
| 30 | Few questions ask the rich to struggle through the problems of the poor . |