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

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1 In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess .
2 Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love .
3 Alternatively , stay at the grand manor houses whose impoverished owners will take B&B guests ( from £25 a night for a double ) under the Turismo de Habitação scheme .
4 Understood in this sense professionalization contests what ordinary policemen and women see as long-established , wellgrounded , practical experience .
5 For Figure 8 , I used a plotter , a mechanical drawing board whose moving pen is controlled by the electronic signals coming from the computer .
6 In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised .
7 ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures .
8 Diminishing environment returns from refinements to petrol-driven cars and uncertainty over which alternative power sources to pursue will complicate the plan , according to motor industry experts who last week testified before the clean air and nuclear regulation subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee .
9 At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime .
10 Future advances in technology may disclose other , more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater .
11 HOUSING CONVERSION FROM A METHODIST CHAPEL : A HOUSING GAIN BUT A LOSS TOT HE RURAL COMMUNITY ( SOURCE : AUTHORS AND A. TEED )
12 The Court reversed a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by adjudging that Zacarias was not protected by the 1980 Refugee Act which required aliens seeking asylum to demonstrate " a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race , religion , nationality , membership of a particular social group or political opinion " [ see pp. 30411 ; 34541 ] .
13 They ca n't go up there , we 've got to do the best we possibly can , and the Government is doing all it possibly can to help by providing subsidies for housing associations by providing ninety five per cent of the rent rebates which this City Council gives , so on and so forth .
14 Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event .
15 Thus , rather than developing a broad perspective on women 's experiences of poverty , the chapter reviews what recent studies reveal ( and obscure ) about the impact of low household income on Black and white mothers caring for children .
16 Bruce , therefore , became a kind of guerilla leader whose main means of harming the English was to harass them rather than seek a formal confrontation with them .
17 They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts .
18 She attempted a comeback in 1989 , but lost in the first round of both events she played before being sidelined by a car accident which required surgery on her right knee .
19 She attempted a comeback in 1989 , losing in the first round of both events she played , but it was cut short by a car accident which required knee surgery .
20 This gene codes for a protein molecule which later splits into the three proteins of the virus coat .
21 Car owners whose main concern is to return to their parked vehicles will need to retrace their steps exactly to avoid steep cliffs at the south end , but others with no such inhibitions can extend the walk , and enjoy doing so , by following the crest of the ridge northwards until meeting the path coming up from Clapham Bottoms bound for Selside , here turning down east to join another path to Selside , this continuing the road along Crummackdale from Austwick .
22 In the light of these partial versions of reality , I suggest there is a need to look beyond the surface presentation , whether handed out in the form of a press release or in the crime statistics which senior officers consistently use as an indication of social mayhem .
23 No it 's gon na be our punk anthem our new punk anthem it 's gon na be brilliant .
24 And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in .
25 Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music .
26 He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for .
27 It had a silver frame which just set it off …
28 Owen saw as one of the chief evils of the suffrage movement its apparent disrespect for men .
29 Limits to the individual accumulation of capital were also set by , for instance , the Asante state whose long distance trade was shared between state merchants and wealthy private traders .
30 Molecular modelling is used to study the conformational and energetic aspects of B I -B II transitions within the backbone of a B-DNA dodecamer d(CATGACGTCATG) whose fine structure has previously been determined by molecular modelling combined with NMR spectroscopy .
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