Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This seemed a great victory for the undefeated Britons and since those living within the Province also now had cause to hate Rome , this gave them a real hope of a military success .
2 Agrippa 's face was round , cherubic , his features small and neat like those of a child , except for the hooded eyes and the look of sardonic amusement with which he watched everything about him .
3 Stuart , who left Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers in November and has since joined Sale , is entered for the 100 metres as well as her main event , the 200 metres .
4 The individual sprinters were Wells , McFarlane and Reid for the 100 metres and Buster Watson and Ade Mafe , a new talent , for the 200 metres .
5 I ran two personal bests , 10.33 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.79 seconds for the 200 , which was further encouragement for me and compensation for the traumas I had suffered on the West London track throughout the long , cold , seemingly never-ending winter .
6 Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid .
7 In addition to seeking a long overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie .
8 In addition to seeking a long-overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie .
9 Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment .
10 With white fondant , cut out tiny circles for the front headlights and fix on .
11 Anyway I suppose before we decide we really need to know how much the National Party are going to charge us if anything for the actual posters and what the posters look like .
12 We have a very fine cotton lawn for the delicate items and a heavier calico for the more sturdy ones .
13 This is recognized taxonomically by the division between the Ponginae , which contains only the orang-utan and its putative fossil relatives , and the Homininae , for the African apes and humans .
14 ‘ The great thing about Joe Boyd , ’ says Andy Kershaw , whose Radio 1 show provides one of the rare outlets for the African percussionists and Bulgarian tractor mechanics ' choral ensembles currently recording for Hannibal , ‘ is that he has consistently put his artistic principles before his commercial instincts .
15 Energy is essentially expended in three ways : Energy is needed for the chemical changes that go on inside our bodies .
16 The new President would not , however , be responsible for appointing under-secretaries for the armed services or his own military aides ( and under other legislation was not allowed to remove military commanders ) .
17 PERU : Reports of ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions have continued despite President Fujimori 's 1991 directive calling for the Armed Services and National Police to respect human rights .
18 He also told the Minister of State for the Armed Forces that he hoped that the matter would be expedited as quickly as possible .
19 Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home .
20 A housing task force has been set up under my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces and he is considering how we can use the existing housing stock to alleviate problems .
21 Included in the friendship treaty was a defence co-operation agreement , covering material provision for the armed forces and officer training .
22 One foundation upon which the new studies could be built was the Humboldtian search for the geographical factors that limited the distribution of particular species .
23 It does not , however , show if there is a significant bias toward the right field for the verbal tasks or if , for example , verbal tasks are just more right in the left visual field .
24 for the padded-up bees and two ants
25 The numbers of single ( i.e. unmarried ) women , have fallen significantly in recent years , with important consequences for the caring professions as well as informal care .
26 There was a little shop there run by a Mr Nixon who would stay open all hours for the hired lads and lassies .
27 Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them .
28 Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge .
29 At this time the village inn had not only become the centre of social life for the lower classes but was also frequented by the local squire and lesser gentry .
30 The Primary Education Improvement Project in Northern Nigeria has produced a programme for the lower classes where more formal subject-based lessons were planned to cover about half the teaching time , but complemented by a carefully planned activities programme based on group work .
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