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

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1 Would it be possible for areas in area two with that information please ?
2 It might even be possible for Members of Parliament to walk down the street and assess the approximate value of property in one street compared with property in another .
3 Had this been successful it would have been possible for managers of education and training at every level within a locality to identify major employment issues , to assess likely large-scale change in employment patterns and to identify educational links which might have to be developed or changed .
4 It in many instances it is n't specific about levels of traffic reduction which are significant .
5 The purpose of this section was to discover as much as possible about trends in staffing and recruitment , the internal policies of institutions on Language in Education , and a little about the attitudes of tutors in this area towards their field .
6 If Chatterton chooses to flog , with the agreement of the committee , priceless port from the cellar , so long as the money is laundered through the entertainment account it allows him to be subsidised for a jaunt to Monte Carlo and no doubt Fishbane for nights of bliss with ladies from a call-girl agency . ’
7 Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year .
8 It was normal for pairs of waggon doors to face each other on opposite side walls of the barn ( Plate 2 ) , but in some barns the threshing floor could be approached only from one side , there being a blank wall opposite .
9 Each character must make a Cl test ( modified as normal for protections against fear ) or suffer -10 penalties to WS , BS , Cl and WP .
10 RIGHT It is quite normal for puppies to bolt down their food quickly , but with several puppies , you should check to ensure that each one receives an equal share .
11 True , she had had a pleasant bed-sitting room , and Mrs White had cooked for her and always been welcoming , but on some cold summer evenings , sitting in her Lloyd Loom armchair by a gas fire , turned low for reasons of economy , Agnes had experienced some bleakness .
12 But it is not co-extensive with it : And it is certainly too strong for reformulations in discourse where segments which are presented as paraphrases are not always strict paraphrases .
13 This rule seemed to be modelled on the proportionality requirement in self-defence , and was criticized as quite unsuitable for cases of provocation , where loss of self-control intervenes between the provocation and the retaliation .
14 We feel guilty about sins of commission and sins of omission — when we have done something we should n't or when we have not done something we should .
15 FUNDAMENTAL science often leads to fresh technologies and even to new industries , but is is far less usual for developments in technology to lead to new science .
16 Subsequent analysis showed that in all cases there had been significant changes in the proportions with high dependency over the decade between the censuses after age and sex standardisation ( χ 2 =18.0 , df=1 , p<0.0001 ) , and these changes were significantly different between types of care ( χ 2 =61.2 , df=6 , p<0.0001 ) ( table V ) .
17 It should be emphasised that although these statistics are interesting for purposes of comparison , they should be treated with caution because of the differences in the methods of compilation .
18 She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds .
19 The design staff and manual workers at Lucas jointly felt that there was something seriously wrong about forms of technology which could make product systems as complex as Concorde while in the same society old people were dying of hypothermia .
20 The guidelines issued in 1988 distinguished between activities within school hours and out-of-school activities .
21 This recession is proving especially painful for firms in advertising , retailing , the media and financial services .
22 The intragranular pores probably formed in response to the flushing of the rocks by freshwater during phases of exposure ( Fig. 6 ; Clark 1980a ) .
23 More crashing of feet through bush , then the snuffling of cocaine — sniff , sniff .
24 You are free of feelings of guilt , worry , anxiety , embarrassment , envy or jealousy .
25 Thick blood films of 28 patients remained free of parasites until day 28 of follow-up ; in the other 2 patients symptomless parasitaemia of 15 and 50/L was detected on day 28 .
26 Twenty-nine months after acquiring HIV-1 infection , he remains free of symptoms on zidovudine and has 494/L ( 34.2% ) CD4 lymphocytes .
27 The Liberals are free of links with class interests .
28 With these preoccupations , the Left 's vision of socialism has often been negative in form : socialism is a society without the private ownership of the means of production because private ownership is a key feature of capitalism ; socialism is a society free of private profit , because of the centrality of private profit to a capitalist way of motivating economic life ; socialism is a society free of inequalities of class , because capitalism systematically produces just those inequalities ; socialism is a society without politics of a class kind because this is the normal form taken by politics under capitalism .
29 Those retained were judged to be free of accusations of corruption , although questions were immediately asked about Ricardo Fiuza , the Social Action Minister who , in violation of the electoral law prohibiting donations to individuals , had admitted receiving US$100,000 from the Brazilian Banking Federation to finance his 1990 re-election campaign to the Chamber of Deputies .
30 I 'm not fond of things like apricot and nectarine
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