Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [conj] [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 Thus , logically , any generally available additional provision for deaf or partially blind or disturbed children , and others such as dyslexic children , was not special educational provision .
3 All three of these organisations make provision for non-professional as well as professional church musicians .
4 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 .
5 Shrewd , quietly spoken and a model of impeccable sportsmanship for young and not — so-young alike , he has created a chemistry which has made Haslemere 4th XI one of the most popular sides with its opponents and the happiest with itself .
6 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 .
7 ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes .
8 A further risk that may be relevant where a purchaser acquires assets and assumes responsibility for some but not all of the creditors , is that the sale may be seen as a preferential treatment of creditors under IA 1986 , s239 .
9 It has to be shown that , in assuming responsibility for some but not all creditors , the vendor was influenced by a desire to prefer some creditors against others .
10 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 .
11 So that they 're not having to find money for that as well as their ticket they get it sort of all in one price .
12 Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well .
13 Well they got these blacklegs and I could tell you a story about that as well .
14 And would they still get the income support after that but still at a reduced rate or not ?
15 The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs .
16 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 .
17 Though game theory has been criticised , we believe it can be helpful if used critically to explore the possible structure of conflicts , rather than to search for neat but probably illusory ‘ answers ’ .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 The most complex occurs where policy implementation depends upon co-operation between separate autonomous organizations , and particularly where responsibility at the periphery is ( a ) delegated to several organizations with separate territories and ( b ) dependent upon co-ordinated action between two or more local organizations .
21 But this organisation makes it a permanent pleasure for blind and partially sighted people . ’
22 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 .
23 The aim is to keep the beer in a drinkable condition for longer but both systems interfere with the maturation of the beer and deliver an unpleasantly fizzy pint .
24 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 .
25 It is an association of two or more legal persons , in the same way as a company , but the association itself has no legal personality and outsiders deal directly with the members .
26 Mr Reynolds will require a great deal of psychological as well as physical preparation for surgery .
27 This has been done in America , but only at practices with a patient-list of 50,000 or more .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 ’ .
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