Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | The simple guilloche decoration of mosaic 7 appears slightly cruder than that of mosaics B or C. The more complicated three-strand guilloche of the former , however , is not significantly inferior to the four-strand guilloche of mosaic C. The former appears to be " stretched " , but then the latter seems to be cramped ( although " loose " ) . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the register of charges which the company is required to maintain may be more illuminating than that at Companies House since it must now contain entries of all charges on the company 's property whether or not they require to be registered at Companies House and copies of any instrument creating or evidencing a charge must also be kept . |
| 4 | This was reflected in the decisions of the courts , where slightly more than half of juveniles charges with indictable offences received a probation sentence in the 1930s . |
| 5 | The law lords , Britain 's highest court , ruled that hundreds of swaps transactions between banks and local governments are unlawful . |
| 6 | 64 ) and room 5 , Chedworth , possess meanders which are more elaborate than those of mosaics B and D at Woodchester or mosaic E at Withington . |
| 7 | Thanks to its huge IDV wines and spirits division they are now seen as a cheaper way into the international premium-branded booze market than those of rivals Allied-Lyons and Guinness . |
| 8 | Much of the work under discussion gives some consideration to the issue of subject specialization : the character of science education will , therefore , be touched on in this chapter , but a fuller discussion of this topic , and that of humanities education , will be found in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year . |
| 10 | Barley straw works by changing the pH of the water , making it acidic and unsuitable for algae growth . |
| 11 | Even so , one could argue that it is necessary for sociolinguists at least to attempt such a distinction between folklinguistic stereotype and linguistic fact : particularly when the stereotypes in question are both ludicrous and contemptuous of women speakers . |
| 12 | Dunkin noticed that in ‘ the major part of the text of The Fairy Queen two basic groups of headlines appear : one in gatherings B , D , and F and another in gatherings C , E , and G ’ . |
| 13 | For listed investments , disclose aggregate market value if different from accounts value . |
| 14 | The prison governor decided for safety reasons to withdraw night staff and hundreds of police officers , with re-enforcements from the neighbouring Greater Manchester and Merseyside forces , ringed the jail . |
| 15 | They wore the same green and white of malai children all over that archipelagic state . |
| 16 | Thompson , l986 has discussed elsewhere the major inadequacies of standardised depression scales ; and those of OBS scales were very similar . |
| 17 | No services were to be held in the church or chapels on certain forbidden former holy days ; nor was any concourse of idle people to attend church on those days , which included All Souls ( nor the evening or night before ) and those of Saints Catherine , Nicholas , George , Lawrence , Ann , and so on , including Thomas-a-Beckett , Mary Magdalene , the Conception , the Assumption , Wednesdays during the Easter or Whitsuntide weeks all being forbidden by law to be kept as holidays . |
| 18 | In Easton routine policing is performed only by regular constables , but the ambiguous position of reserve police within the RUC warrants a brief mention of this section of the force , if only because there are no parallels between reserve police in the RUC and those in police forces in Great Britain and the United States . |
| 19 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |
| 20 | A dish of crisp okra and one of basmati rice cooked in tomato juice and Indian herbs followed . |
| 21 | Study 2 , and one within subjects factor , junction . |
| 22 | There may be no missile that is survivable , affordable and compatible with arms control . |
| 23 | And I 've got sort of like sweet and sour with prawns sort of er raising mix for something else . |
| 24 | Most — 65 per cent — were working-class in socioeconomic groups C2 , D and E. The rest were white-collar , middle-class and upper-class from groups A , B and C1 . |
| 25 | Also missing in traction : the Fontana showcase with Catherine Wheel , House Of Love and Ocean Colour Scene : the rumoured-to-be-great Grifters and recent On -sters Gigolo Aunts . |
| 26 | This is highly regarded and influential in police circles and the social worker would do well to be aware of its thinking . |
| 27 | After eighteen months and thousands of pounds expenditure , Deborah and Laura realized that an illustrated lecture was ridiculously inadequate . |
| 28 | Meanwhile it 's been revealed that thirty people have been arrested and thousands of pounds worth of drugs seized during raids in North Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
| 30 | The success rate of lawyers in 1982 was 36.9 per cent whereas that for trades union representatives and for individuals representing themselves was 25.1 per cent . |