Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical discussions took place on the role of health research in the strategy for health for all by the year 2000 , with four working groups dealing with nutrition research , health systems research , the strengthening of research capability , and recent advances in biological and physical sciences and their implications for health care . |
| 2 | She felt strong fingers catch hold of it , grasping it firmly and pulling it away from her face . |
| 3 | I would begin myself from Saint-Jean-de-Luz , from where there are at least three pleasant roads going south into the heart of Labourd . |
| 4 | The confusing rules prohibiting charging for educational provision ( including anything provided as part of the National Curriculum ) and examination entry ( see Appendix to this chapter ) , and the requirement that a course of study leading to a qualification authenticated by an outside body be approved by the Secretary of State or a designated body , have imposed further constraints on what may be offered . |
| 5 | The arched openings provide access to a lightweight stair which takes visitors to a mezzanine level linking with the ground floor office space . |
| 6 | The banning of one-party committees or sub-committees makes it difficult for political groups to develop policy with the benefit of officer advice . |
| 7 | On Nov. 25 , leaders of a number of armed groups reached agreement in the Supreme Soviet to end the fighting . |
| 8 | Embryos from both induced and normal ovulations show asynchrony in development from an early stage of cleavage and preparatory techniques have to be devised to attempt to recover as many as possible with analysable chromosomes . |
| 9 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 10 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 11 | In a sense , it is precisely the vain attempts to interpret existence as a " property " and the difficulties created by such interpretations that have inspired the various reductivist moves in an effort to dispose of the whole problem , by showing that existential propositions are in principle " eliminable " , and hence that there are no " irreducibly " existential facts . |
| 12 | The three free-standing objects introduce complexity through the marked difference in content and philosophy . |
| 13 | The last mass execution of political prisoners took place in the second half of 1988 , when at least 2500 political prisoners were executed in prisons throughout Iran . |
| 14 | In practice this has not been achieved , even allowing for the fact that the Conservative government inherited from Labour plans entailing growth in expenditure of some 2% per annum . |
| 15 | As we shall see , there may be good economic reasons to relate tax to property values , but this mismatch was perceived as unfair . |
| 16 | Tall narrow houses stood back to back and grimed curtainless windows stared blankly at her as though reflecting the hostility of those within . |
| 17 | Last-ditch attempts to stop deportation of Kurdish refugees |
| 18 | The setting of targets and the control of performance depend on the political authorities having access to the relevant knowledge : the costs of services , the basis of investment appraisals and so on . |
| 19 | The aim of the guide , said Mr Davies , is to make the visitor realise the wealth of rural activities taking place in Mid Wales , as well as highlighting places of interest to visit . |
| 20 | Armed skirmishes took place in Dushanbe between supporters and opponents of the government in the first week of May and large demonstrations and counter-demonstrations were held , with up to 100,000 people gathering on May 5 . |
| 21 | Since the tone of the internal anal sphincter is normally modulated by its sympathetic nerve supply , the observation that the minimum basal pressure is no lower in spinal patients than in normal subjects suggests persistance of a tonic sympathetic influence on the intenral anal sphincter , supporting previous studies , and probably mediated via autonomous activity of the inferior mesenteric ganglion . |
| 22 | Set alongside the regional impact of other EC policies , notably CAP , the ability of the regional funds to make progress towards correcting spatial disparities was severely restricted . |
| 23 | Furthermore , there may be justification for using additional regional funds to follow excellence in technology development and application . |
| 24 | In response to a request by the Ministry of Post & Telecommunications , Guiraudios said France Telecom has proposed some technical methods to restrict access to Minitel . |
| 25 | Two extreme right parties gained representation for the first time in their respective Länder , the Republicans ( led by Franz Schönhuber ) in Baden-Württemberg and the neo-Nazi German People 's Union ( DVU ) ( led by Gerhard Frey ) in Schleswig-Holstein . |
| 26 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 27 | Perhaps those from the broad acres placed modesty before artistic greatness , as they might very well do . |
| 28 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 29 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 30 | In a famous passage from the Psalms , personal and impersonal images run side by side : |