Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many parts of the world , we have developed innovative policies on quality and customer service . |
| 2 | The coming of the railways literally made possible resorts like Skegness and Rhyl ; conversely , the lack of a rail link retarded Eastbourne 's development . |
| 3 | Product-container compatibility includes all possible interactions between product and container such as absorption of constituents of the product by the container , leaching of constituents of the container by the product , corrosion or other adverse effects of the product on the container and the barrier properties of the container ; that is , its effectiveness in protecting the contents from the adverse effects of atmospheric oxygen and/or water vapour and in retaining water and other volatile constituents of the product . |
| 4 | Peter Bourne recounts how Carlos Rafael Rodriguez , visiting Moscow in December 1962 to negotiate an economic agreement for the following year , had lengthy private meetings with Khrushchev and Mikoian , at which they expressed their surprise at Fidel 's reaction and gave assurance that there had been no intention to offend him . |
| 5 | At private meetings over meals or in his office North would produce his spiral notebook or pieces of yellow legal paper , asking ‘ how in God 's name we can expect these young men and women to fight against Communism when this is what they 're up against ’ , and often breaking into tears . |
| 6 | How can one communicate the importance of culture , the painstaking values of scholarship and of science in a society dominated by the superficial values of consumerism ? |
| 7 | These were the conditions of a new consensus ; far-reaching proposals for redistribution and public control over private interests , which could have been dangerously aligned to one political party , became shared by both main parties . |
| 8 | On the rose analogy there must in fact be violence done to beauty , it must certainly be destroyed before beauty can be made truly beautiful by the addition of scent or verse in their most powerful concentrated forms as perfume or sonnet . |
| 9 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 10 | The republican regime which had taken shape in France by the later 1870s was deeply disliked by many devout Catholics ; and the increasingly acute conflicts between church and state culminated in 1902 in a brutal severing of the links between the two forged by Napoleon I 's concordat with the papacy exactly a hundred years earlier . |
| 11 | He had , after all , defended these lush romances of giants and magicians and genii as ways of reaching truths that were not accessible from any other track . |
| 12 | He said Wirral Deewatch had so far collected 3,100 signatures in Heswall and West Kirby , and hoped to collect more this weekend . |
| 13 | Finally , there are ‘ form and routing templates ’ which present structured documents , such as order forms or help-desk requests to users and then control the way in which they are routed . |
| 14 | As we have shown , it remained a separate establishment following the reorganization of public sector higher education in Wales and it is now widely recognized as a national institution offering full-time and part-time courses for professional performers of Music and Drama , together with honours BEd . |
| 15 | They really mattered in a society remote from our own where the prestige of many professions , including the polite ranks of clergy and the armed services , catered to the motivations only of duty , vocation , or ambition . |
| 16 | More detailed research and length of text could deter the casual reader but one of the improvements in this volume is the increased use of historical and topographical introductions to towns and villages . |
| 17 | Plant evergreen hedges between mid-September and mid-October . |
| 18 | Laidlaw 's raid , however , had other repercussions , for the Japanese built more extensive defences around Dili and manned them day and night ; a use of men and resources that in eight or so weeks would be desperately needed on Guadalcanal , or later that year in defences against other Allied landings . |
| 19 | When it comes to the more subtle realms of responses and sensitivities to homoeopathic remedies , even small strain variations could so change the sensitivity of the species under study that one strain might respond well to a particular remedy while a second , apparently similar strain may not respond at all . |
| 20 | The newly elected president of the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , on Dec. 23 declared 1991 a year of struggle and warned that the government 's reforms were replacing " naked racism and exploitation with subtle forms of racism and exploitation " . |
| 21 | Government influence , ranging from direct bribery to more subtle forms of patronage and manipulation , it has been argued , played the key role in shaping the outcome of elections , with the result that , at least under Anne , the ministry of the day never lost a General Election . |
| 22 | Generalized coordinates are also used in some of the more advanced treatises on elasticity and continuum mechanics ( Green & Adkins ( 1970 ) , Eringen ( 1976 ) ) as well as in many research papers so that a brief summary of the ways in which the generalized theory differs from the Cartesian is given here ; for a fuller account the works mentioned should be consulted . |
| 23 | Gasifiers require considerable technical skills for operation and maintenance . |
| 24 | There were delays of months while specifications and tenders for new power stations were cleared by the headquarters engineers , but Hacking insisted that there must be close technical control of design from the centre , claiming variously that the limited technical skills of divisions or the requirements of standardisation made centralisation necessary , or ( quite implausibly ) that anything else was illegal under the 1947 Act . |
| 25 | The regular patterns of sound change discovered by Grimm for German were now investigated and specified more closely , methods of reconstructing earlier unwritten forms of words and constructing models of linguistic ‘ family trees ’ were established , other models of evolutionary change ( like Schmidt 's ‘ wave-theory ’ ) were suggested and the use of analogy — especially grammatical analogy — were developed ; for philology was nothing if not comparative . |
| 26 | Yet , to a greater extent than other mobilizers , say , Joseph Chamberlain or Lloyd George , she has operated within the established political institutions of Parliament and party . |
| 27 | But this does not amount to dependence on the political wishes of governments or ministers as such . |
| 28 | For a time after his departure , the Abbey Mill site was run by William Rice and Co , and towards the end of its working life was running eight pairs of stones and producing its own electricity , using a water turbine and two of the remaining waterwheels . |
| 29 | He searched desperately for Tony 's father among the confusing patterns of lights and shadow shifting and flickering down there on the prom . |
| 30 | The competition rules apply to all cases where the agreement , conduct or practices produce an effect on the normal patterns of trade or have a ‘ repercussion ’ on the competitive structure of a market thereby affecting trade between member states . |