Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what new initiatives he has to further policies of achieving transparency in the world arms trade . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what new initiatives he plans to curtail nuclear weapons proliferation . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received from farmers about compensation for the effects of low flying on livestock . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on the future of the Scottish regiments and battalions ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what further consultations he has had regarding ’ Options for Change ’ , in the light of the disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The Edinburgh side are now at full strength which is bad news for Kelburne whose international players , David Fowler and Michael Starling , have to readjust to the indoor set-up after their trip to Cairo last week with the Scottish outdoor squad . |
| 8 | His success could thus be explicitly attributed to that capacity for influence which British administrators had always claimed to possess , but had not normally had the opportunity of conclusively demonstrating . |
| 9 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has held with representatives of district councils and European Commission officials concerning the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the subject of Scottish government ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received about the home improvement grants scheme . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further representations he has received on hospitals applying for trust status . |
| 15 | It can vary in precision from quantitative anthropometric surveys to attempts to describe the attributes of products which particular users prefer . |
| 16 | During the Later Middle Ages , there was an increasing shortage of coins which some historians believe led to a trade depression . |
| 17 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 18 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 19 | Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers . |
| 20 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 21 | Because of this excellence of technique their winning chances increase . |
| 22 | The town is proud of its cultural reputation , it boasts a philharmonic orchestra , a modern dance company , an annual summer music and theatre festival , and of course its medieval tapestries of the Apocalypse . |
| 23 | But provenance , as yet , has n't been demanded for ephemera , except of course their immediate origins , the publisher , the manufacturer . |
| 24 | ‘ And of course your former remarks about lady doctors were quite right . |
| 25 | So that er his former chauffeur joined the force , P C , he was in , he drove of course our first police car , well which he shared with P C , then when our cars got to number two , three and so on , he eventually came up , so that he retired as inspector , traffic inspector . |
| 26 | So it was with a confident heart that your reporter negotiated the challenges of the M25 and M4 en route to Sonning for the 10.30am rendezvous with fellow support crew member , Liz Roberts and of course our fearless cyclists . |
| 27 | The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug , though of course his tactile sensations are n't blunted . |
| 28 | ’ The Squire had a stud here and built more stables ; he fished for trout in the ornamental lakes , grew circular coverts to encourage rabbits , which he loved to shoot , kept harriers and a pack of beagles and of course his favourite hunters ‘ Assheton ’ , ‘ Starlight ’ , ‘ Elmhurst ’ , and ‘ Shamrock ’ . |
| 29 | And of course it all ends happily when the Arab obviously can not bear to part with his horse : |
| 30 | Fifth and finally , the NCRA and the block exemption differ in the range of activities which cooperating firms are allowed to undertake , the latter being rather more inclusive than the former while not , however , allowing firms to undertake joint marketing of the product of co-operative R&D projects . |