Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is by no means clear how farmers would react to any system which threatened to control their freedom to do as they please with their own land .
2 Police appealed to shopkeepers in area who might have sold items to two men with Liverpool accents in week before and after April 27 when couple disappeared .
3 The ground became more accessible after June 1922 when Huddersfield Corporation started running buses direct to the south-west end .
4 During December three more EC countries completed ratification of the Maastricht Treaty , leaving only Denmark and the UK still to do so .
5 Studies advisers will be pleased to provide students with information about the range of support available e.g. Student Services , Chaplaincy , Careers Advisory Service and , if requested , will make arrangements for students to seek specialist advice or help ;
6 A total of 87 people , many of them immigrants from central America , died in the early hours of March 25 when fire swept through the unlicensed Happy Land social club in a slum district of the Bronx , in New York City .
7 It 's quite clear of course that though Diodati may belong to the first class , Milton belongs to the second .
8 But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women .
9 Major military conflict in the Gulf began on the night of Jan. 16-17 when forces of the United States-led international coalition in the Gulf launched an air offensive against Iraq .
10 There was a section at the top of Act Two where Joyce is supposed to be auditioning for some American producers .
11 Demonstrations resumed in University Square on the evening of Aug. 22 when protesters staged a six-hour occupation , chanting anti-government slogans and complaints about food shortages ( especially the reintroduction earlier that day of sugar rationing for the first time since the December 1989 revolution ) .
12 The direct tram service between Fleetwood and Blackpool has been maintained continuously since 1898 , with the single exception of winter 1963/4 when buses ran between Blackpool and Cleveleys .
13 So many members of the Council had also been conspicuous supporters of Jane that only Northumberland was immediately executed .
14 The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 .
15 The most controversial attack in the air war occurred in the early hours of Feb. 13 when US aircraft destroyed an air raid shelter in the Amiriya district of western Baghdad .
16 If weekly benefit is being paid under item 5 and benefit becomes payable under any of items 1–3 e.g. Policyholder has leg amputated , the capital benefit under item 3 would be paid ( effective from the date of amputation ) but payment of the weekly benefit would cease .
17 a ) Cut out two strips of paper each about 3cm wide and about 15cm long .
18 By the closing date for nominations for the leadership contest of Nov. 15 only Thatcher and Heseltine had been nominated .
19 MY diary ( and letters to my wife ) noted what I saw and heard on night duty in the guardroom of an RAF aerodrome on the weekend of September 7–8 when reports came through that big Luftwaffe daylight raids had begun on London .
20 The therapist can not win out against death , but he or she can win out for life , for a sense of the real , for the kind of growth that truly matters ; dealing as it does with the evaluation of ways to love and hate , with the meanings of human conduct , an appreciation of human nature , and the succession of the generations .
21 The ‘ First Gentleman of Europe ’ was a phrase used of George IV when Prince Regent .
22 Or maybe there are populations of whales that never strand .
23 Up to 60 people were reported killed on the weekend of April 27-28 when ANC supporters clashed with supporters of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi 's predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party in Soweto and Alexandra , on the outskirts of Johannesburg .
24 Push the bottom of panel 3 against base edge C , ( keep the siliconed edge of panel 3 about ½″ away from panel 2 to avoid rubbing off the bead of silicone with the surface of panel 2 ) .
25 All very different , it is implied , from the sober court of Henry II where lawyers and administrator liked to spend their evenings discussing the wording of the latest royal writ .
26 There is to be a period of consultation lasting until the middle of June 1991 when individuals and organisations can put forward their views .
27 The response exacerbated the strikes , and by the end of June 1991 both disputes were growing in scope and intensity .
28 Election for Leader 1983 Thefirst-ever use of the electoral college to elect a Leader took place on the resignation of Michael Foot .
29 Typical values , for processors such ie Motorola 6800 or Intel 8080 , are T , = 10 us and T2 = 50 us and a table of stepping rates for various delays can be constructed : This table illustrates a fundamental weakness of the software-based System : the range of available Stepping rates becomes coarser with increasing speed ; for example , at 100 steps per second a unity change in delay value produces a 0.1% change in stepping rate , but at 5000 steps per second the same delay change gives a 5% difference in stepping rate .
30 For PF 5 only modes of e' symmetry are active in both IR and Raman spectra ; any Raman bands coinciding in frequency with IR bands can confidently be assigned to these modes .
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