Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , the transplant hospital , which started out as a centre for wounded Australian troops in the First World War and was then used as a TB sanatorium , exists in its own world , untainted by the big bad world outside . |
| 2 | Obviously further work needs to be done in this area , and long-term studies now in progress using antiplatelet agents such as aspirin and dipyridamole need to be evaluated for possible protective effects on the development of microvascular and macrovascular disease in diabetic subjects . |
| 3 | Vigilance must be kept for possible new cases of tuberculosis both in immigrants and in the indigenous population . |
| 4 | Now is the time to prepare the way for possible new opportunities for the future . |
| 5 | The wealth of information collected and most ably synthesised in the project 's report was used as evidence on which to base suggestions for possible key topics round which teaching could be based . |
| 6 | We roamed the streets together looking for possible future providers of parchment and , taking advantage of the good weather , rode north to Oxford to the parchment-sellers along Holywell and Broad Street as well as the little shops on the Turl near Exeter College . |
| 7 | As for possible civilian contenders for political leadership , Calvo Sotelo was dead before the war began , Gil Robles remained discredited by political failure , and José Antonio was languishing in a Republican jail . |
| 8 | The daily Clarín reported on March 3 that under a decree signed by Menem on Feb. 26 , 1990 ( expanding an earlier decree of March 10 , 1989 , introduced after the La Tablada attack — see p. 36394 and below ) , the armed forces were entitled to intervene in the event of " a state of internal disturbance " serious enough to endanger the life , liberty , property or security of the country 's inhabitants ; with this in mind the National Security Council [ see p. 36613 ] was to draw up plans for possible joint actions by the police , the security forces and the armed forces . |
| 9 | Needs have been identified for high quality therapy equipment at the Developmental Centre and for possible further exchanges of staff in July 1993 . |
| 10 | The National Union of Teachers has voted for possible nationwide strikes in protest at the planned introduction of performance-related pay . |
| 11 | In one stroke Lyle has added 230 retailers to their list of customers and Stoddard 's Contract Division has received an order for 15,200 square meters of Custom carpeting for two Stakis Country Court Hotels . |
| 12 | The chase films swept away by this development may have been repetitive but they offered an excitement that no one can have secured from the sight of London stage actors running through potted silent versions of Shakespeare . |
| 13 | When the Nationalists launched their third attack , on 3 January 1937 , their forces had been reinforced considerably , especially by Italian and German aircraft , including the German " Condor Legion " , despatched to Spain at the beginning of November and allowed by Franco to use the Spanish war as a practice ground for devastating new techniques of destruction and terror . |
| 14 | It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells . |
| 15 | If one girl now has more than 24 beads , she has won a hole for each four beads on the other player 's side . |
| 16 | The teaching profession has recently made a beginning in this direction , allowing one salary increment for each three years of child rearing . |
| 17 | Question analysis is a fundamental skill for Advanced level students of History . |
| 18 | A resource pack has been produced by the School for Advanced Urban Studies at the University of Bristol . |
| 19 | It is fortunate , however , that a thorough monitoring of the scheme , funded by the DoE , was undertaken by the School for Advanced Urban Studies at the University of Bristol . |
| 20 | A sentence of this kind would be an interesting test for advanced foreign students of the English language because it is not merely unepigrammatic but devoid of meaning . |
| 21 | She now lives in Suffolk and continues her association with the Britten legacy as a guest teacher at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies at Snape Maltings . |
| 22 | He was a founder artist of the English Opera Group in 1947 , a founder Artistic Director ( with Britten and Eric Crozier ) of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948 and Founder-Director of the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1972 . |
| 23 | The development of national goals and targets for health , for example , covers social and environmental conditions and sets differential targets for specific social groups with very poor health status . |
| 24 | All too often his own officials negotiate for lower European standards for fear of any possible impact on UK firms . |
| 25 | The fierce factional fighting between Tamil separatist groups in late 1989 and early 1990 , in the wake of the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force , confirmed the ascendancy of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE , Velupillai Prabhakaran l. , Anton Balasingham political spokesman ) . |
| 26 | The company is providing paint and wallcoverings for 120 new homes to be built at Banbury Hunt , Kentucky . |
| 27 | A report in The Lancet told how one baby who died was so hot its temperature was five degrees about normal five hours after death . |
| 28 | These are not the best conditions in which to study an animal — certainly , no psychologist would dare to make assumptions about normal human abilities by studying imprisoned young orphans ! |
| 29 | Simon worked for discreet administrative transformations within government , avoiding until late in his career clashes with ministers over contentious issues of policy and principle . |
| 30 | The Alfonsín government elected in Argentina in late 1983 woúld probably also be included in this category , as would the recently elected ( 1984 ) administration in Uruguay ( president Julio Maria Sanguinetti called for expanded economic relations with the USSR shortly before his inauguration ) and the APRA government led by Alán Garcia in Peru which , since its election victory in May 1985 , has taken an active role in the Non-Aligned Movement , vying for the leadership and backing its challenge with moves to extend diplomatic recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organisation ; ( iii ) capitalist , ‘ liberal-bourgeois ’ governments that are oriented towards Washington , for example , Venezuela , Peru under Belaúnde , Colombia ( before 1982 ) , Costa Rica and Jamaica ; ( iv ) ‘ right-wing ’ , ‘ reactionary ’ military dictatorships generally not liked , but supported by the United States . |