Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in the period when Labour was still in opposition in the early part of the war — September 1939 to May 1940 — there were twenty-one by-elections , but only six Labour candidates were put up and they of course were for the previously Labour-held seats : two of these were unopposed and the other four faced candidates of fringe groups , who did not poll well . |
| 2 | The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) . |
| 3 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 4 | The International Law Commission concluded that ‘ modern doctrine is … in overwhelming agreement that the representing State should not , as such , be answerable for the internationally wrongful acts of the represented State ’ . |
| 5 | The average salary for the nearly 700 players on the 26 teams tops $1 million a year for the first time . |
| 6 | For generally busy scenes there was no correlation between B and the amount of fixed objects , r(20)=-0.053 , while for the generally empty ones there was a significant correlation , r(21)=0.612 , p<0.01 . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , however , as well as becoming the classical place of banishment , Siberia was also fast developing into a haven and a land of freedom and opportunity for the steadily increasing numbers of refugees fleeing from the oppressive social , economic and political policies of St Petersburg . |
| 8 | Having allowed a decent lapse of time , Caffier then located a buyer for the easily identifiable pieces . |
| 9 | The fact that the numerical models do not incorporate this unique wet Late Permian palaeogeography could well account for the uniformly erroneous results . |
| 10 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 11 | The role of Highlander in this project so far had not just been as a catalyst , nor a co-ordinating agency for the network — though this in itself is a vital role — but also as a meeting place for the widely scattered groups which came to the Center to hold regular training workshops . |
| 12 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 13 | ‘ Pickerings supplies innovative products , often they are too good for the rather mediocre schemes its lifts are installed in , ’ says one prominent regional architect with experience of the company and arch rival Otis , although a bigger concern , retains a deferential view of the Stockton business . |
| 14 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 15 | Rev Stanley Boreman conducted the simple Congregational marriage ceremony , and as we left the church the sun shone quite perfectly for the rather amateur cameras who had survived the bombing the record that happy event . |
| 16 | Stan began to look for the even rarer amphibians . |
| 17 | No mention of crime occurred until page twenty-six of the thirty page manifesto , where police recruitment , public order offences , prison building , and secure detention for the most dangerous criminals were singled out . |
| 18 | C. P. Snow may not have delineated the cultural divide until 1959 ; but commentators still return to Victorian England for the most potent illustrations of desiccated , materialistic science set against the life of the imagination . |
| 19 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 20 | The decision … is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates " . |
| 21 | Given that the UES mainly caters for the most impecunious students who reach university level , the interruption of its work also affects those who have no alternative access to higher education . |
| 22 | Occasionally I would have preferred a more urgent tempo for the most turbulent responses , such as ‘ Seniores populi ’ ( track 6 ) and ‘ Tradiderunt me ’ ( track 10 ) . |
| 23 | Chaperoning was so easy , it was the job reserved for the most junior nurses . |
| 24 | It had now cast its net more widely over the British universities for the most brilliant mathematicians , physicists and chess-players it could find ; and some from other disciplines and of diverse talents had been trawled . |
| 25 | There is clearly insufficient evidence for the most serious charges . |
| 26 | Once again , it may be doubted whether this is sufficiently high for the most serious cases . |
| 27 | These include requiring a Court before giving a custodial sentence to consider a report by the probation service and to give reasons for such a sentence , except for the most serious offences ; also to satisfy itself that the offence was serious enough to justify the use of custody . |
| 28 | New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes . |
| 29 | Under the Bill , whipping was to be abolished as a punishment ordered by the courts , being retained only in prisons ( but not in borstals ) as a penalty for the most serious infringements of prison discipline . |
| 30 | Some of the sites are enormously rich , however , and the history of palaeontology is punctuated by quite unscientific feuds between experts trying to find and hold on to the best sites for the most spectacular vertebrates . |