Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I have not ruled out being available for possible British Lions selection . |
| 2 | The deal is worth £125,000 , and Coda will supply cellular phone company Westel — the joint venture between state-owned Hungarian Telecommunications Co and US West Inc — with its integrated accounting system ; this runs on mid-range machines such as IBM Corp 's AS/400 , and Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX and Alpha . |
| 3 | On July 25 , thousands of Hong Kong citizens had applied for British Dependent Territories Citizenship ( BDTC ) . |
| 4 | Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies course , University of York , The King 's Manor , York . |
| 5 | NOERC is calling for further electrification schemes , the adoption of the Continental loading gauge , a more flexible attitude towards the provision of regional freight depots through the use of grants payable under Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 , and an early decision on the provision of regional inland customs clearance facilities to complement those at British Rail 's main Tunnel freight assembly point at Willesden . |
| 6 | — stylistic mode ( b ) — contextual mode ( d ) — evaluation of conflicting critical arguments mode ( f ) |
| 7 | The existence and nature of these special enforcement procedures is such that it is now possible to speak of European human rights law as being a part of the law of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Over time , excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks has fallen as a share of total indirect taxes excise duties plus VAT — from 13.4% of the total in 1980/81 to only 8.6% in 1991/92 . |
| 9 | Then a list of possible new schemes dear to committee members ' hearts is added and a list of possible economies and cuts , 1 per cent , 5 per cent or 10 per cent in total . |
| 10 | The closing date for the receipt in Faculty Offices of completed Exceptional Admissions application forms is 1st March , but enquiry should be made well in advance ; normally applicants must also apply through UCAS . |
| 11 | The first R/3 pilot site in the UK is a subsidiary of German natural detergents company , Henkel Chemicals AG , which will run R/3 on a Hewlett-Packard 890/200 database server accessed by X-terminals at the front end and serving 250 users . |
| 12 | On a two-week poll of different coloured cupcakes Labour has 46pc , Conservatives 28 and Lib Dems 26 . |
| 13 | At that time there were very few courses of any kind which recognised the value of an ability to communicate with members of different linguistic communities resident in Britain in their preferred language : the only academic institutions offering any kind of training for the teaching of community languages such as Bengali , Chinese , Greek , Gujarati , Hindi , Italian , Panjabi , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish , Turkish and Urdu ( as used in Britain ) were the bodies who had supported the initiative of the Royal Society of Arts in piloting a Certificate in the Teaching of Urban Educational Studies in the Inner London Education Authority , Moray House College in Edinburgh , Middlesex Polytechnic and St. John 's College of Further Education in Manchester . |
| 14 | Tengiz Sigua Prime Minister Temuraz Khachiashvili Interior Vazha Gudzhabidze Social Welfare , Labour and Employment Murtaz Zankaliani Trade and Material Supplies Teimuraz Mamatsashvili Chair of Foreign Economic Relations Committee Konstantin Salia Chair of Tourism Committee Leri Gigineishvili Chair of Committee for Social and Economic Information |
| 15 | This is not so obviously the case with Caribbean Creoles and English : though from the point of view of British English speakers Creole may be different from all British English varieties in salient ways , it is not clearly a separate language for members of the Creole-speaking community . |
| 16 | The project , which may be the subject of announcements around the UniForum trade show next month , is among a number of similar joint developments Oracle has been working on in conjunction with symmetrical multi-processor ( SMP ) hardware suppliers , including Pyramid rivals Sequent Computer Systems Inc and NCR Corp ( UX No 325 ) . |
| 17 | When its near discordant notes gave way to Rooster and the driving beat of early Rolling Stones music , it was as if the the group and the whole theatre had been struck by benign lightening . |
| 18 | Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive airways disease ( COAD ) are a common cause of admission to hospital , and have a high mortality . |
| 19 | An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies . |
| 20 | The exhibition is the highlight of National Individual Homes week , launched in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects , and is the biggest show ever staged for those wanting to create their own home . |
| 21 | Despite multiple clinical trials survival from colorectal carcinomas after optimal surgical removal of the primary tumour has not significantly improved in the past 40 years . |
| 22 | Legal factors Restrictive covenants Existing easements Easements required Approval of scheme by third party Vacant possession ( squatters ) Sight lines Ransom strips Private and public sewers Infrastructure and services Existing roads and access Proximity and capacity of existing public sewers Availability of gas , water and electricity supplies Engineering problems Made-up ground , mining , bearing capacity of soil Springs , streams/rivers , flooding , water table Existing foundations and basements Previous use of land ( i.e. lead works , chemicals , asbestos , etc . ) |
| 23 | If there is a sound business reason for the change and your employer has observed the principles of good industrial relations practice , including full consultation with you and consideration of possible alternative courses , prior to taking action , he will probably have a good defence . |
| 24 | The 13th round of US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ( START ) , otherwise known as Nuclear and Space Talks ( NST ) , resumed in Geneva in January with an agreement on a " trial measure " involving the inspection of each other 's nuclear warheads . |
| 25 | VERZY : Complex structure of interbedded subsoils : Belemnite and two forms of Micraster chalks , calcareous-silty deposits , fine gravelly beds , various layers of ferrous-brown flinty pebbles east of the village and colluvial deposits of ferrous flint-bearing clay to the north . |
| 26 | This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year . |
| 27 | Christie , a private in the Ulster Defence Regiment , nearly decapitated her victim in the attack — a desperate bid to hang on to the affections of dashing Royal Signals officer Captain Duncan McAllister . |
| 28 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 29 | But still she could not use it until she spent an accumulation of 2 ½ years filling out Ridiculous Redundant Forms from the Grand Canyon 's Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department , spent $4,967 in stamps mailing the forms in and had to get a skin graph on her tongue from licking stamps . |
| 30 | Because the Grand Canyon Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department feared that someone might mail George a get-well card with a bomb in it , they shut down their office . |