Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |
| 2 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 3 | Addition of successively higher odd harmonics steepens the wings and reduces the amplitude of the fluctuations in between . |
| 4 | A generous selection of auxiliary products support the range , including Gloss and Matt Mediums , a Gel Medium , an Acrylic Retarder to increase the working time of the colours , Gloss and Matt Acrylic Gesso Primer . |
| 5 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 6 | Strong fingers snapped the catch at his waist , pulled the zip , tightened the leather belt above the sculpted curve of masculine hip . |
| 7 | In the textile industry a number of technical inventions produced an increase in output ; a way had been found of using coal , in the form of coke , to smelt iron ; and the steam engine was so improved that it provided a new source of power . |
| 8 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 9 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 10 | The growth of private estates increased the burdens for the Christian peasants of the raya and , increasingly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , protests against the extortion and virtual peonage which the çiftlik system imposed on them provided fuel for the fires of peasant revolts . |
| 11 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 12 | He said the standard return fare between York and London would rise from £84 to £117.60 as private operators sought a 20pc profit on their investment . |
| 13 | But the bearing of children at advanced ages to satisfy a demand for large numbers of them as , for example , in the Africa region is associated both with higher levels of maternal mortality , early childhood mortality and the morbidity of infants and young children . |
| 14 | If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure . |
| 15 | Thus , if the monetary authorities increased the money supply , the whole of the increase would be added to speculative balances and the interest rate would remain unchanged . |
| 16 | persistent fingers play a virtuoso trill |
| 17 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 18 | This was the general , and rather bleak , attitude behind his specific attempts to reach a formula for what was in effect a new Christian activism . |
| 19 | A breakdown of the figures shows 14 per cent of women in professional groups exceed the limit , compared with six per cent of female unskilled workers . |
| 20 | Such uninformed views do the industry a disservice . |
| 21 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 22 | Comte suggested that a society 's political institutions provide an indication of the stage which has been attained by civilization . |
| 23 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 24 | On Dec. 15 the Israeli authorities ordered the expulsion of four middle-ranking members of Hamas from the Gaza Strip . |
| 25 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |
| 26 | Specific plans include the reintroduction of captive-bred brown bears to Austria , and European lynx to the eastern Alps . |
| 27 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no specific plans to meet the ambassador , but both he and I have met him recently . |
| 28 | This was an initiative sponsored by the SDLP at first intended to bring together politicians from both catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist groups to discuss the future of the island as a whole . |
| 29 | The tensions in political priorities and prevailing values find an echo in decisions about the appropriate balance between centralised and localised infra-structure for management development . |
| 30 | Sanchez reached into his shirt pocket and drew out a fat paper cylinder , stroking its length with pursed fingers to smooth the kinks . |