Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Connections had postponed running plans for the previously unbeaten Tenby until they had established the cause of his failure . |
| 3 | He can often find suitable work for the previously self-employed patient . |
| 4 | For the exclusively breast-fed baby , it could be any food . |
| 5 | As the man with some previous experience of CAA hearings , it was Randolph Fields who arrived at Civil Aviation House in Kingsway , London , on the first day of the hearing to present the case for the newly inaugurated Virgin Atlantic Airways . |
| 6 | He cast a bell for the newly rebuilt abbey church . |
| 7 | Quiller Orchardson 's ‘ The Idol ’ ( 186870 ) represents the child as the object of worship for the newly widowed mother , where familial ties are indicated by gaze rather than touch . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |
| 10 | Immigrant workers , easy scapegoats for the newly reunited country 's economic ills , have been the latest victims of bigoted violence . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1836 he was appointed resident engineer , under Edward Woods and Henry Booth [ q.v. ] , of the Liverpool–Newton Bridge section of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , with responsibility for the maintenance of the permanent way , bridges , stations , and the winding engines for the steeply graded tunnel sections at Edge Hill , as well as for the replacement of the original rails which were far too light to carry heavy traffic . |
| 13 | Even so , as Arnold Freeman argued in Boy Life and Labour ( 1914 ) if it were not for the admittedly frail system of compulsory schooling , ‘ we should be manufacturing a race of hooligans who would make our existing civilisation an impossibility ’ . |
| 14 | For the strictly limited purpose of deciding whether Ward J. 's decision should be affirmed or reversed , it suffices to say that an appellate court should always be slow to reject a trial judge 's findings of fact , he having had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses , and that it should be even slower to do so if any findings which it would be minded to substitute would lead to the same result . |
| 15 | On the application so to vary the implied undertaking , the applicants undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against the applicants by the two reinstated officers , and on the question of the effect of public interest immunity : — |
| 16 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 17 | This description fits the observable characteristics and progress of the disease , although it might be more appropriate to substitute the social term " " sensitivity " " for the strictly clinical term " allergy " . |
| 18 | Höchstetter , Daniel Ulstat , and Hans Lonner , came acting as agents for the outwardly prosperous merchant company " David Haug , Hans Langnauer , and Mitverwandte " who had also involved themselves in mining . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | The date for the nearly new sale has been fixed as Saturday March 14 and good quality clothes are needed . |
| 21 | The average salary for the nearly 700 players on the 26 teams tops $1 million a year for the first time . |
| 22 | Unless there is personal identification and commitment , then there is no responsibility for making things work — one of the reasons for the generally poor attendance levels at meetings where governors present their annual report to parents is that the system is imposed on schools . |
| 23 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 24 | Experience at the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( see Appendix III ) shows that — at least for the generally poor people who go to the Centre with money problems — mail order , check traders and other weekly callers such as tallymen are woven so closely into the fabric of daily ( or rather weekly ) life as to be more than just a possible buying choice . |
| 25 | Even accounting for the generally lower standard of software then , I reckon the reviewers were feeling generous . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is undoubtedly the Wolfenden Committee who were responsible for the generally high level of debate concerning reform of the law in this area in the following eight or nine years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On their pumping new single , ‘ Gold ’ , which is bizarrely reminiscent of New Order circa 1984 , East 17 go for the sneeringly philosophical angle , insisting that ‘ life is worth more than gold ’ . |
| 29 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 30 | And when it got particularly boring they would amuse themselves with a 15-minute rendition of ‘ Frank Clark knows my father ’ substituting the full back for the equally famous Lloyd George . |