Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no simple division between left and right , and little evidence to support the easy sneer that those supporting military action by a Democratic president would have opposed it by a Republican one : the Nation , the country 's leading magazine of the left , is dead against intervention . |
| 2 | If medical expenses are being claimed , the estimate should include a provision for these and also any medical fees we may incur e.g. a PMA report or Additional Certificate of Medical Attendant . |
| 3 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 4 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
| 5 | The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs . |
| 6 | Almost all the variations and hybrids retain that primrose charm , only the modern F1 seed strains have lost their elegance in the foolish search for larger and more garish flowers . |
| 7 | The rumoured deal between NeXT and either Compaq or Dell that first broke last January ( UX No 368 ) has so far failed to materialise : observers claim it 's because Steve Jobs is demanding a big down payment from both firms even though he intends to shrinkwrap NeXTstep-on-Intel . |
| 8 | A little further down the line , we are introduced to hard disc recording , intent on replacing tape for good and just beginning to enter the field of the home user in terms of price . |
| 9 | But this organisation makes it a permanent pleasure for blind and partially sighted people . ’ |
| 10 | Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings . |
| 11 | And as Stavrogin describes his search after new and ever stronger and more bizarre sensations , and as he laments his boredom , and as suicide is touched on , tracts of Crime and Punishment open up again : but without the astral , feathering humour of America , anatomy , and ordinary ghosts . |
| 12 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 13 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 14 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 15 | It will be remembered for contemporary art 's declining audience , with many exhibitions attracting very little interest , and for the closure of noted and less established galleries . |
| 16 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |
| 17 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 18 | Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 20 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 21 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 22 | These differences may be significant given the potency of large and relatively prolonged aggregations for producing epidemics in experiments . |
| 23 | The practice of temporary and then |
| 24 | He had been a nippy winger in Palace 's promotions side of 1963–64 and then acquitted himself well as we consolidated in Division Two , so he was a welcome recruit at Selhurst Park in mid-September 1971 , when Bert Head was restructuring his team in a successful attempt to ensure 1st Division survival . |
| 25 | These ‘ staff development ’ needs were primarily identified in the Training Needs Analysis carried out with senior staff in the Spring of 1992 and also from ongoing discussions and requests from senior colleagues . |
| 26 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |
| 27 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |
| 28 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 29 | The activity of tissue type plasminogen activator was significantly raised 10 minutes after the injection of endothelin-1 and gradually increased to 8.1 ( 3.1 ) IU/ml at 30 minutes ( mean ( SD ) n=7 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 30 | Economic gains may flow from this process through unscrambling previous misconceived acquisitions , for example , or simply from an injection of fresh and more dynamic management . |