Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 2 | It is a bit hypocritical both for the questioner and for the Minister , who is a representative of the Government of unemployment , to criticise potential job losses under a Labour Government . |
| 3 | They taste a bit different actually to the ones we had . |
| 4 | Under these conditions most of the CO 2 presently in the Cytherean atmosphere would have resided in carbonate rocks . |
| 5 | This suggests that the atmospheric CO 2 on Venus is in equilibrium with these types of surface rock and that there exist on Venus accessible surface repositories of CO 2 mainly in the form of carbonates . |
| 6 | They also make the point that the one spider that makes daytime webs without stabilimenta , Nephila clavpes , has bright yellow silk , which , they say , makes the web conspicuous enough without the need for resorting to additional warning markers . |
| 7 | For their $283m the 75 investors that KKR represents will get preferred stock , convertible after three years into Fleet/Norstar stock at $17.65 a share , plus 6.5m warrants for newly issued Fleet/Norstar stock exercisable immediately at the same price , the last closing price before the purchase was announced . |
| 8 | It was logical to construe the phrase ‘ intending to settle ’ in rule 41 differently from the contrasting phrase ‘ admitted for settlement ’ which appears elsewhere . |
| 9 | See Chapter 5 below for the procedure for setting aside bankruptcy orders . |
| 10 | This relationship between torque and field strength receives more discussion in Chapter 3 so for the present we need only consider how the pole magnetic field can be maximised . |
| 11 | At the end of the flat portion there was a gap big enough for a man 's body to drop through , and then a single rung like a short parallel bar in a gym . |
| 12 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 13 | This animal rolls up into an almost perfect ball , with the top of the head and the top of the tail fitting close together like the last pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , leaving no gap anywhere for a predator to probe . |
| 14 | This solution , which is conformally flat in the interaction region , will be described in Chapter 14 together with the full analysis of its singularity structure as given by Clarke and Hayward ( 1989 ) . |
| 15 | International marketing differs from its domestic counterpart due purely to the differences in the political , social , cultural and economic environment between countries . |
| 16 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 17 | This 2 week deferment period must be added to the compulsory 2 week deferment for hazardous activities eg winter sports , making benefit payable there from the 29th day of incapacity . |
| 18 | In extreme cases , unjustified delay can render a dismissal unfair even in a case where a similar penalty would have been legitimate had management not dragged its feet . |
| 19 | Mary A. B. Brazier has described the work of Hans Berger as the triumph of a man working with equipment inadequate even by the standards of his day . |
| 20 | This can be done under the Planning Acts by way of a Special Development Order ( SDO ) , or it can be provided for in a Private Act concerned specifically with a project . |
| 21 | If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 22 | The application of this principle in the Sexual Offences Act 1967 following upon the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957 is well known . |
| 23 | Erm , would the er spokesman not agree that there is a crisis in secure accommodation in Leicestershire at the moment due entirely to the stance of the Labour and Liberal parties on this authority . |
| 24 | ‘ Their favourite venue now is at the town clock where there is a natural amphitheatre which carries the sound right across to the Pickie area and local residents are sick of it . ’ |
| 25 | In answer to the question ‘ why does stigma persist ? ’ the products of interactionism shy away from the realities of social structures , preferring to provide an ‘ answer ’ in terms of the spurious generalities of ‘ eternal verities ’ . |
| 26 | Keeping in touch with this flow , as well as the hundred-odd pages of daily transcript , was a job practicable only for the zealots like Brian Rome or the massed ranks of the CEGB staff . |
| 27 | THE five presidents of Central America kept the beleaguered regional peace process alive yesterday with an agreement that bolstered the governments of Nicaragua and El Salvador by calling for the demobilisation of rebel forces in both countries . |
| 28 | Section 64 of the Act of 1986 is the first section of Chapter VI which deals with the powers of intervention exercisable directly by the S.I.B . |
| 29 | EMI 's Abbey Road is the venue for Nagano 's Rite , a leaner sound of startling clarity ( should one be able to hear the contrabassoon this consistently in the final ‘ Danse sacrale ’ ? ) . |
| 30 | The boy nodded , his embarrassment visible only in the slight stiffness of his limbs . |