Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Jo and Maggie sitting cradling cups of tea , chip papers stuffed into the waste bucket , the kids eating theirs next door in the bedsit , watching television . |
2 | The Taiwan High Court on Oct. 14 began an investigation into the DPP for alleged violation of the Civic Organizations Law which prohibited advocacy of secession . |
3 | I would like to thank the Curwen Archives Trust whose generous grant has made this publication possible . |
4 | ‘ An electric sports car whose exciting styling , 80mph top speed and 6secs 0–60mph time prove that battery power can be exciting as well as green ’ |
5 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
6 | In a recent speech , Colette Flesch , Director-General of DGX , said the EC should ‘ concentrate its co-operation and support on intelligent development of cultural projects integrated into national , regional , and local development policy ’ , rather than on financing a few big prestige projects , or simply subsidising the old Communist subsidies system which those countries can no longer afford to finance . |
7 | Typically on hearing the news of his Lions selection his first thoughts were for others . |
8 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
9 | If we are to combat any attempt of the Right to exploit issues involving sexuality in order to hang onto power , we can not afford to neglect the virtue of solidarity — which involves a certain restraint concerning our feelings bout what other people do in bed . |
10 | In the early 1950s Highlander work shifted to make educational programs on the civil rights issue its major priority . |
11 | Note , however , that problems regarding contact may also be resolved by use of the representations procedure which local authorities are obliged to set up under s26 of the Act ( see Chapter 20 ) . |
12 | ‘ Yer 'll 'ave ter come down , missus , ’ he called out to her , ‘ I ca n't climb those stairs wiv me bad leg . ’ |
13 | Despite my files tellin me this month has the longest list of genre titles , it is the one with least to offer . |
14 | Few Zambians other than Mr Vibetti questioned the use of government finance to subsidize a communications medium whose main output was then mostly imported and often in conflict with the values both of its audience and of the government that financed it . |
15 | Long has great hopes of Clark , who will be making the English Schools youth 1500 metres championship his main target this summer . |
16 | AN Australian morals campaigner whose small party holds the balance of power in the New South Wales Parliament today threatened to block all legislation unless the state government abandoned planned gay rights laws . |
17 | The eventual dissolution of such right-wing paramilitary security bodies as the Treasury Police and National Guard , and the formation , under international supervision , of a new civilian police force which former FMLN guerrillas would be allowed to join . |
18 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
19 | It requires no dramatic change in policy to impose a small surcharge on the corporate sector through its filing of the annual return which will provide the funds to support the accounting standards system which this country needs and deserves . |
20 | As stated in the AEA Times bulletin our clear preference is for our commercial business to be retained essentially in a single company that is transferred to the private sector either by a public flotation or private placement . |