Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 2 | In any case rail rates were high and for coal transport the canals seemed a logical proposition , especially at a time of economic recession . |
| 3 | Can most easily be distinguished from Tree Pipit by voice ; legs of adult generally dark flesh-pink , hind claw longer ; those of immature and of Tree Pipit flesh-pink . |
| 4 | Proposals to increase the range of shopping facilities available in these centres will be encouraged , provided their impact on other centres is acceptable and in Edinburgh city centre , where they do not affect the centre 's environment . |
| 5 | Is the aid reliable and in working order ? |
| 6 | Their diagrams have become the official guide for events everywhere , both individual and for team flying . |
| 7 | It is an orderly transition , reinforcing the impression , as it is intended to , that the social-democratic ship of state is on course , its institutions well-oiled and in working order , even though last month 's general election left the country with a hung Storting ( parliament ) . |
| 8 | There are three ground floor sitting-rooms , panelled and with Purbeck marble or carved fireplaces . |
| 9 | Successful applications for financial assistance to Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited and to Edinburgh District Council enabled three workshops to be held during the period June/July 1993 at separate venues in the University of Edinburgh , Queen Margaret College and Napier University . |
| 10 | Others say there is no political will for real land reform , since the leadership 's aim is to keep the previous system intact and in working order , not to break it up . |
| 11 | The entrance was narrow and below street level . |
| 12 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 13 | Of course he had known Rufus had this in mind , was three years through his time at medical school , had already considerable knowledge and nous — who could forget that ? — but somehow he had imagined that the same fate would have overtaken the others as had overtaken him , a deathly stultifying , an inhibition on all that was ambitious and of ascendant character , a remorseful withdrawing into the shade . |
| 14 | Roughly 10% of black Americans were found to have the mildly defective A glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant , more severe B variants occurring around the Mediterranean and in South East Asia . |
| 15 | Gradually add the egg , beating well after each inclusion , until the mixture is shiny and of piping consistency . |
| 16 | Heavy industry was largely concentrated in a handful of favoured regions , dominated by a small number of major and in part foreign-owned firms , and closely dependent upon the government for subsidies and contracts . |
| 17 | The lower part is the narthex with its five arches , all two-tiered and with relief decoration in the tympana . |
| 18 | Councils must regard young people leaving care as vulnerable and in priority need of housing . |
| 19 | In that case Engineering and Chemicals Supplies Limited ( ECS ) , a small producer of organic peroxides , alleged that the UK subsidiary of Akzo , a large Dutch multinational company , had abused its dominant position in the relevant market by implementing a policy of selective and below cost price-cutting designed to damage ECS 's business and to exclude it as a competitor from the specialised sub-market in the flour additives sector in the UK and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 20 | Again , our thanks to all our readers for being so helpful and to Bluebridge Music , Rosetti and Washburn for their generosity in donating these prizes . |
| 21 | The 1992 members ' yearbook for Paddlers International is even better than before in that members are now indexed in alphabetical order of name as well as by the waters on which they are knowledgeable and by club membership number . |
| 22 | Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less . |
| 23 | Never had they seen so much enquiry , so much question and answer , so much deployment of grey cells at one extreme and of gut intuition at the other . |
| 24 | With few Luftwaffe bombers now left in Sicily , raids were desultory and of nuisance value during most of March , the main torment for the defenders remaining the ever-present Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 . |
| 25 | A detailed reference text outlining the principles and procedure in relation to assessment is now available in full and in summary form . |
| 26 | During the year , the group acquired 32% of the equity capital of Model Type Ltd and 100% of the capital of Model Layout Ltd and of Model Manufacturing Ltd . |
| 27 | In the USA the literature of user education indicates that schools were heavily dependent on public libraries for library services in general and for user education in particular , right up to the 1930s . |
| 28 | This is sort of the same thing as we did in our Champ year — when we got the ball at midfield we came storming and in fact coach Egil Olsen quite liked the style Leeds played then — when he commented a game last year he was very disappointed with our play . |
| 29 | Each band recording with the label pays £550 up front and in return Expo provide three days recording at Sonic Studios , 350 cassette singles cut to length and stamped and 350 covers in full colour , designed by the band itself . |
| 30 | He was normotensive and in sinus rhythm . |