Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.

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31 He 'll be pinning his faith on Henry and his autumn parliament to raise the money for the young man 's ransom , no doubt .
32 General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy .
33 Try I fall in love too easily for the young Marsalis 's strong sound gelling with the experience of the rhythm section .
34 The corresponding evidence for textile manufacture and treatment on a commercial basis is everywhere lacking in Britain , except for the possible cloth-finisher 's or dyer 's shop at Chelmsford , which contained several hearths and a large tile structure identified as a vat .
35 Lot 144 , a large copper and niello inlaid Tiffany two-handled cup , for the 1893 World 's Columbian Exposition , bore an extremely low $8,000–12,000 estimate , and was sold to a New York dealer for $8,500 ( £6,000 ) .
36 It may be confused by parts of the shell , for the mean position 17h06min05.27s , -44°25'20.2 is displaced 5.51.1 at PA 160° from the pulsar timing position .
37 He had climbed trees for the blue hawk 's nest , and knew its eggs and their markings ; the hawfinch , that parrot of the woods with its strange cry and saucer nest , was common in his time .
38 But in reality there is little or no training for the assistant teacher 's role in school management .
39 He felt he might even have given the captain a good run for his money if it had n't been for the damn man 's obvious advantage of height and weight .
40 That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat .
41 John Smith and Bryan Gould put forward their visions for the Labour Party 's future
42 There has to be a substantial increase either in income tax or in VAT to pay for the Labour party 's spending plans .
43 As Mr Smith travelled to the TUC in Blackpool , a senior union leader — sup-posedly an ally — called for the Labour leader 's anti-devaluation stance to be ditched .
44 First , the Conservatives who were in favour of family allowances mostly advocated contributory or employer-financed schemes , and the grounds for the Labour movement 's opposition to such schemes , which they had voiced in the 1920s , were still valid .
45 The second reason for the Labour movement 's hostility was that the trade unions had still to be convinced that their strength had increased sufficiently to risk reconsidering the position as declared at their annual conference in 1930 .
46 That it is wrong , we may learn from the sights all around us : drunken men lying on the ground , cursing and making oaths ; young women lost to the bondage of early motherhood , always pushing children about in small carts , and making oaths ; reckless gamblers who by their own improvidence must sell double-glazing for the prudent man 's windows .
47 Well I wonder if if in fact er tha that this might be a task for the vice chairman t to go round ,
48 ‘ I should be grateful for the Financial Secretary 's guidance on these two points .
49 However , there appears little support at this stage for the former king 's return from his Swiss exile .
50 the Civil Rights [ Disabled Persons ] Bill could form the basis for the new law , but the matter is too significant for the Private Member 's procedure — a Government Bill is needed .
51 We only need to remember the differential equation for the scalar potential unc ( eqn ( 2.12 ) ) and its solution in the form of eqn ( 2.24 ) .
52 It was a strenuously long day for the 26-year-old psychiatrist 's daughter from Kilkenny , who had survived a two-down-with-six-to-play crisis before lunch to beat Ulster 's gallant little Michelle McGreevy on the 17th .
53 The normal expectation is that a Request for Exclusive Acquisition Advice will result in a fee-paying engagement for the participating member 's firm .
54 Yet again the BNFL entry , which sported a mock-up of the film 's famous pink car , took first prize for the annual procession 's best entry .
55 Apart from an influx of long-awaited sliding-door stock for inner suburban units and a small batch of unpopular Weymouth-Waterloo stocks , the headlines for the Southern Region 's vast DC electric fleet were disappointingly dull .
56 She was picked from 300 other hopefuls for the coveted presenter 's job .
57 Both groups were about equally confident of their judgements ( mean confidence rating 2.6 for the black group 's correct guesses , 2.5 for the white group 's ) .
58 But then , in the last paragraph , they concluded that ‘ we would not be justified in attaching any criticism or blame to the present Government for the Argentine Junta 's decision to commit its act of unprovoked aggression in the invasion of the Falkland Islands . ’
59 For the full-time farmer 's son , and 95 ’ % of all German farms are run by family units , there was a very good Master Farmer training system .
60 On the other hand it raised the danger of an ambitious cousin , too impatient to wait for the present ruler 's death , committing regicide ; and there were many instances of this .
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