Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Tilberthwaite ore the figures are £2 3s. : 3d. and £1 15s 4d. respectively . |
| 2 | All the critical functions are within the teams , engineering , technical support , and after suitable training the teams are taking on many skills which would be normally contracted out . |
| 3 | The following , all paraphrasable by that-clauses ( paraphrases are given in brackets after each one ) , are also examples of this : ( 63 ) In the first stage of cellular reproduction the chromosomes ( which in the resting stage are not individually identifiable ) appear in the nucleus , each of which on inspection with a microscope can be seen to consist of two identical filaments called chromatids . |
| 4 | In I Know Where I 'm Going ( 1945 ) , Wendy Hiller plays a go-ahead girl who , when forced to choose between the sort of rural mysticism the filmmakers previously invoked in A Canterbury Tale and a ‘ good ’ marriage , is only reluctantly brought round to accept the former . |
| 5 | But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked . |
| 6 | IN any marshalling of detailed evidence the dangers of forensic tedium are present . |
| 7 | The beginning of the End , when the forces of Light battle the forces of Darkness . |
| 8 | As the complex railway networks fanned out from these nodal points of British power the companies built there stations that would match the railway , civic , and administrative grandeur associated with them . |
| 9 | They 're also baffled by the large glassfuls of warm beer the expatriates drink with their meals . |
| 10 | Suppose a file contains N fixed-length records and each record is comprised of a key of k characters and n data items of average size a characters . |
| 11 | By helping general practitioners to be more selective in their use of diagnostic radiology the guidelines reduced the rate of referral and thus patients ' exposure to radiation . |
| 12 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 13 | For the remaining five-sixths of Deep Bay the threats are ever-present . |
| 14 | One reason for this is that in the simpler forms of legal system the ideas of ultimate rule of recognition , supreme criterion , and legally unlimited legislature seem to converge . |
| 15 | Despite colonial rule the islands ' distinctive craft techniques survived , particularly a liking for work inlaid with mother-of-pearl . |
| 16 | Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back . |
| 17 | In the face of great hostility the clothiers then agreed to pay compensation of threepence a thrum , which suggests some degree of recognition on their part that thrums were part of the " customary wage " , whatever the legal position . |
| 18 | In that pure evening light of late summer the plains were brown and golden , with here a crumbling village with women nearly always in black , and here a straggling group of toylike , stunted umbrella pines . |
| 19 | Despite considerable funding the results of these ‘ first generation ’ MT systems were far from encouraging . |
| 20 | Similarly , if in a much more restrained manner , the Englishman , John Page , himself a soldier in Henry V 's army , described in detail and in passages of considerable emotion the sufferings of the helpless civilians during the six-month-long siege of Rouen which ended in January 1419 . |
| 21 | In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology . |
| 22 | Devised by the University of Minnesota , it is a way of short cutting the routes through Internet which can also take advantage of using other host computers which are less busy ( e.g. one in a different time zone ) . |
| 23 | Even if the outcomes remain at the level of measurable behaviour the possibilities for partners to arrive at different interpretations of what has been ‘ agreed ’ are considerable . |
| 24 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 25 | He also made a special study of the outcasts , the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots . |
| 26 | In order to hide the true extent of military-political cooperation the parties used instead formulations which would attract less attention such as ‘ understandings on access to facilities ’ . |
| 27 | When they feel drained of spiritual energy the students go there and lie on the floor , their bare feet against the granite , to re-charge their batteries . ’ |
| 28 | In other cases of non-compulsory transfer the parties will probably still be under the same constraints about fixing the price . |
| 29 | Nobles were urban , but outside the areas of disseminated settlement the peasants and farmers were likewise town dwellers . |
| 30 | And there are few precedents for the sort of retroactive legislation the banks want . |