Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |
| 2 | Percolation and absorption through the earth banks . |
| 3 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 4 | The final point to consider in this section is the ability of an employer to seek protection for the trade connections not only of his own company but also of other associated companies . |
| 5 | The Conservative government of the early 1980s was committed to the replacement of domestic rates by a system of local taxation that improved the accountability to the local tax-payer for the spending decisions of the local authority . |
| 6 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 7 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 8 | In the preparation for the Assembly elections , the issue of the relationship between the DUP and the Free Presbyterian Church was again raised . |
| 9 | This is the so-called Chinese postman problem , which provides a Hamiltonian circuit through the arcs ( as compared with the travelling salesman problem which is a minimum route through the network nodes ) . |
| 10 | Gilbert Edelson , chief counsel for the Art Dealers Association of America , compared the effect of a droit de suite in the United States to a proposed increased gasoline tax designed to conserve fuel by reducing consumption . |
| 11 | September 1990 also saw the prescribed ATs and PS for the core subjects in the first year of key stage 2 and for English in the first year of key stage 3 brought into effect . |
| 12 | Just over a decade later , as the papal curia prepared for the Vatican Council , Cardinal Ottaviani proposed a profession of faith for the Council fathers which would repeat the anti-modernist oath ( no remarkable thing in itself : the anti-modernist oath was required to be taken by all those teaching in seminaries , and all priests before ordination ) and once again to repudiate the errors that had been condemned by Humani Generis . |
| 13 | So if you are a die-hard player who ca n't stay away from the golf course during the winter months , why not try a golfing holiday on the Continent ? |
| 14 | Buthelezi was said to be angry that the ANC had alleged connivance between the security forces and Inkatha in killing ANC supporters . |
| 15 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 16 | From this perspective , we set out to discover the plot of the social drama which the members of a particular community are in effect engaged in presenting , the parts or ‘ roles ’ that its members assume , and their mutual interaction as the play proceeds . |
| 17 | WITHIN the next week the Scotland squad for the forthcoming tour of Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa will be chosen , which provides a shop-window opportunity for the home players in today 's A international against France at Rubislaw , Aberdeen . |
| 18 | WITHIN the next week the Scotland squad for the forthcoming tour of Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa will be chosen , which provides a shop-window opportunity for the home players in today 's A international against France at Rubislaw , Aberdeen . |
| 19 | And the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand will be an admirable opportunity for the fringe men to gain valuable international experience . |
| 20 | At one extreme are the relations of permanent hostility between the Buid and Christians , paralleled on the mystical plane by the permanent struggle between the spirit familiars and the predatory spirits . |
| 21 | Even so the struggle between the plant eaters and their predators was frequently finely balanced . |
| 22 | But it 's not the same story for the electronics systems division , which employs two hundred and fifty people , again in Cheltenham and Gloucester . |
| 23 | In the end the company , under huge pressure from the local community , refused permission for the NIREX surveyors to even make an initial survey of the mine galleries . |
| 24 | Although incomplete coverage for the trigram transitions can lead to problems when dealing with unseen text there are possible solutions which will allow the use of trigram information . |
| 25 | The Advisory Board for the Research Councils acknowledged the need for a boost to clinical research , but rejected the Medical Research Council 's proposals for a new centre linking basic laboratory research to clinical research in a hospital setting and postgraduate education . |
| 26 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 27 | A report from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils argued that next year 's budget was ‘ substantially less than the sums needed to sustain the health of the UK science base ’ . |
| 28 | Some years ago the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) proposed its notorious ‘ RTX ’ scheme whereby some universities would be major research institutions ( R ) , while others would become teaching-only ( T ) establishments . |
| 29 | The ‘ conversion ’ of the UK government has been briefly described earlier ; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend £10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) for an extra £11m. in 1990 and £13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research . |
| 30 | Sir David Phillips , chairman on the Advisory Board for the Research Councils , this week told New Scientist that he has ‘ detected a reluctance on the part of the research councils to get involved with such methods . |