Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last season definitely took a turn for the better when Kerslake came , and Kelly has made this season 's success in no small part . |
| 2 | During the initial negotiations over ECSC , the international climate changed for the worse as conflict broke out in Korea in June 1950 . |
| 3 | Borg , who split with 41-year-old Loredana earlier this year , is now playing tennis tournaments for the over-35s for purses of just a few thousand pounds . |
| 4 | Hostels Researchers at The Policy Studies Institute were commissioned by the then Department of Health and Social Security to study the extent to which hostels for the needy provided care as well as accommodation and food , to enable the department to decide if , how , and by whom they should be funded . |
| 5 | There is a trap for the unwary where Newco is a close company and lends money to the trustees of an employee trust which holds shares in Newco , for example where funding is required to enable the trust to acquire further Newco shares . |
| 6 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 7 | HISTORIC Scotland has produced a draft management plan for the 1990s for Holyrood Park , Edinburgh 's famous ‘ green lung ’ . |
| 8 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |
| 9 | A case can be made here , for the latter as scenes of a " life-cycle " , spaced between the seasons of the year and followed by the ultimate triumph over death ( signified by ? |
| 10 | This should include a torch ( the batteries of which should be checked regularly for deterioration ) , a box of nightlights , which are safer for the elderly than candles , and a box of safety matches . |
| 11 | Later she discussed beauty tips at a new Salvation Army home for the elderly when Han Yeh-won , 74 , asked her how she stayed beautiful . |
| 12 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 13 | It was also said that good motivation alone was not enough for the unemployed as training was necessary , however determined a person was to obtain employment . |
| 14 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 15 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 16 | As a result , the USA suffered a net outflow of gold in every year but one during the 1960s as pressure of the kind described by Triffin built up . |
| 17 | The importance of the Leicestershire coalfield declined during the 1980s as seams gradually became worked out , but new opencast sites continued to provide useful revenue for BR . |
| 18 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 19 | Further demonstrations , described by observers as the largest since independence , were held subsequently and led to widespread unrest in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 20 | It has been confirmed in an extra-statutory concession ( dated 19.12.88 ) that the taxation position is treated by the Inland Revenue as the same where payments are made to the purchaser under an indemnity in the sale agreement . |
| 21 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 22 | There had been a war of attrition between the two since Darrel had composed a satire , ridiculing Sir John 's mock-Italian attempts at his beloved Longleat , the then home of the Thynnes . |
| 23 | This riposte throws into relief the central difference between the two as Barth saw it . |
| 24 | Living costs are about the same as Britain . |
| 25 | For example , West Germany and the Netherlands both have lower female work-force participation than Britain but also have considerably lower fertility ; while Japan , with a period fertility level about the same as Britain 's has a relatively low work-force participation by married women . |
| 26 | About the same as Land Registry fees . |
| 27 | At present , Wheal Jane produces about 1600 tonnes of tin per year , about the same as South Crofty mine near Redruth . |
| 28 | Combined production in 1984 was some 57 million tonnes — about the same as Iraq 's . |
| 29 | According to Dr Dawson at the Department of Energy 's Energy Technology support unit at Harwell , in the 1990s the various " renewable " energy sources might contribute up to ten million tons of coal equivalent per annum , while the ultimate technical potential is put at 200 metce per annum about the same as UK gets from oil and gas at present . |
| 30 | He has plans now to buy a property in Venice : ‘ I love the palce so much : a five-room apartment there costs about the same as studio flat in Tufnell Park . ’ |