Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that there is no need for staff to work in city-centre offices or to congest the city with traffic and spend time travelling to and from work . ’ |
| 2 | For patients with severe hypertension and an expectation of life of months or at most a year or two , the benefits of lowering the blood pressure were soon seen . |
| 3 | As was noted in the context of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , supernatural settings and in particular the agency of supernatural forces are quite rare . |
| 4 | A " Left Opposition " was already in existence in several European Communist Parties and by 1932 the 12-man " Balham Group " had emerged from the British Communists . |
| 5 | The Latins had felt jealous and hostile to their eastern Christian neighbour for centuries and in 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade had sacked the Byzantine capital of Constantinople with horrible and immoral savagery ; they may also have fatally weakened the Greek empire . |
| 6 | Although general courses of various kinds are found in all kinds of institution , the prime examples are the Scottish general degree , the Open University with its foundation/modular structure , and the broader courses in the arts , social sciences and natural sciences in the polytechnics and above all the English and Welsh colleges . |
| 7 | Further disaggregation of the sectors and in particular the private sector into one personal sector , industrial and commercial companies and non-bank financial companies . |
| 8 | In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all . |
| 9 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 10 | In 1845 he was appointed headmaster of the Central Model Schools and in 1848 a district inspector of the National Board . |
| 11 | In 1938–39 , the District 's approved list contained 224 tutors but by 1941–42 the total had fallen to seventy-two . |
| 12 | The city had been besieged for months but at last a breach had been forced in one of the walls . |
| 13 | Now this may sound an anathema to some Evangelical ears because for some the Church is but a secondary fact in Christian truth , coming a long way after personal faith and experience . |
| 14 | Yet this can be a difficult concept for many professionals who regard clients as at best an intrusion on , and at worst an irritation in , their working day . |
| 15 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 16 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 17 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 18 | They cover virtually all the major subject areas and with such a wide selection available , relatively few new courses are likely to be added to the established pattern . |
| 19 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 20 | But when the inns did begin to improve they brought a great influx of visitors and by 1817 an observer remarks : ‘ Thirty years earlier simplicity and hospitality were then the character of the people … . |
| 21 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 22 | To be developed " along appropriate lines and in such a way as to take into account the legal provisions , contractual agreements and practices in force in the member states . " |
| 23 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 24 | It was records of deep chemical weathering which stimulated the development of new models and in particular the notion of a double surface of levelling ( Büder , 1957 ) . |
| 25 | By 1881 two out of every three people were urban dwellers and by 1911 the transformation was complete with only one out of every five people still living in farmsteads , hamlets or villages . |
| 26 | By nine-thirty they 'll have collected their boarding passes and by ten the ship will be virtually deserted . ’ |
| 27 | MIPS ' ACE liaison officer and vice president of software technology , Larry Weber , said the sixteen companies on the board wo n't be sent their third-quarter bills until after all the MIPS-SGI merger details are cleaned up and the need for these funds is reassessed . |
| 28 | By Christmas Helen was well again and the baby , Moira , was a delight to her proud parents and to all the family , especially her grandfather . |
| 29 | Let us imagine , for the sake of illustration , a company being able to change its production process so that it can produce the same number of widgets but with half the number of people . |
| 30 | Also , the Minister must take these powers not just for the privatised subsidiaries but for all the bus operators currently providing services in Scotland . |