Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After arguing with the night porter for another ten minutes , they worked their way up floor by floor . |
| 2 | This involves grasping the dynamic inter-relation between new scientific knowledges and the much broader public debates over national efficiency and imperial survival . |
| 3 | It is possible for such sentiments of approval of this past to coexist with abhorrence for most current acts of violence . |
| 4 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 5 | Need extra growing space or require speedy protection for tender young plants ? |
| 6 | The paper , on legal protection for mental incapacitated adults , will recommend legal definitions of adults at risk be extended for vulnerable elderly people . |
| 7 | Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests . |
| 8 | ‘ With your permission , I 'd like to use your warehouse as a staging area and base of operations , while we secure the area and send in protection for other American interests in the city . ’ |
| 9 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 10 | Therefore , if the Directive is adopted in its current form it will reduce the available protection for certain electronic databases to the lower 10 years unfair extraction right period . |
| 11 | And way above it all , on top of a nearby mountain , are the anti-aircraft guns which seem to provide scant protection for these 4,000 students . |
| 12 | A spokesman reiterated the position : ‘ The Red Cross symbol is the only protection for unarmed international workers who have to operate in remote and life-threatening situations . |
| 13 | In other vicinities , clusters of schools shared some part of their staff in pursuit of a common curriculum entitlement for all those pupils who would transfer from , for instance , distant and isolated primary schools to a single country-town secondary school . |
| 14 | So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding . |
| 15 | So , as the architects comfortably settled back into their chairs cradling their after-dinner brandies in preparation for some regal platitudes , the Prince launched into a stinging attack that left them reeling . |
| 16 | A DOCTOR spent last night shivering in a frozen food store room in preparation for some cold nights ahead . |
| 17 | In preparation for likely positional changes next season , captain Liz Oehlers decided to make some interesting alterations to the side , effectively swapping the defence with the forwards . |
| 18 | Technology company AWA had sued DRT ( then Deloitte Haskins & Sells ) , claiming that its negligence during two 1986 audits had contributed to foreign exchange losses . |
| 19 | The American doctrine may however possess more rigour for certain related reasons . |
| 20 | The main article of faith for recent Conservative governments financial good housekeeping with great emphasis on public accountability obviously leads the Office of Arts and Libraries to wish to avoid unnecessary duplication of administrative systems . |
| 21 | Prior approval from Agriculture Departments outside National Parks and SSSIs for certain agreed operations should be re-introduced ( both within and outside the LFA ) . |
| 22 | The USA had negotiated compacts of free association with Belau , the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands as a means of providing limited self-government for these three elements of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands , a trusteeship comprising 5,000,000 sq km of the western Pacific , which had been administered by the USA since its establishment in 1947 . |
| 23 | On Oct. 4 settlers on the Golan Heights announced that they intended to convert an army post into a settlement for Soviet Jewish immigrants within two weeks . |
| 24 | The division between small capitalist firms and corporations is the most frequently cited cross-class division . |
| 25 | Thus two-party systems in the twentieth century became established where there was a clear division between two major classes ( Britain providing a good example ) , whereas systems with several parties have emerged in conditions where such class divisions were complicated by religious differences , by the existence of a significantly large peasantry , by divisions in the working-class movement between socialist and communist parties , and by a variety of other cultural factors and historical legacies . |
| 26 | If we accept this division between two different approaches to the search for order and regularity in language , it is not accurate to regard the second , discourse analysis , as something totally new , without any kind of pedigree in the language study of the past . |
| 27 | In the normal course of building and landscaping , the division between two adjoining cottages is marked by the internal wall which separates the two dwellings . |
| 28 | There has sometimes been a division between these two aspects of initial teacher education courses . |
| 29 | Alternatives would be offered in the curriculum plan but there would also be opportunity for many other alternatives hopefully designed at teachers ' workshops . |
| 30 | They are living evidence of the past lack of opportunity for black classical dancers in this country . |