Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 2 | The prismed bomb aimer 's station provided excellent visibility for the pin-point accuracy required . |
| 3 | You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure : after all , prevention is better than cure . |
| 4 | The book is written specifically for engineers and engineering undergraduates to present this computational technique as a practical tool in engineering , keeping the mathematical content to a minimum . |
| 5 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 6 | Such opposition is backed by appeals to protect the small retailer as a unique feature of Japanese culture against an alien Western transplant . |
| 7 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 8 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | The mother who speaks with obvious dread about a forthcoming visit to the dentist may be responsible for unintentionally passing on that fear to her child . |
| 10 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 11 | Our message is that have a think about an alternative possibility , about being much more high-key , much more pro-active rather than reactive . |
| 12 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 13 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 14 | A man of action all his life , David went into the Army in the RAMC as a young man and later trained as a State Registered Nurse in a civilian hospital . |
| 15 | This defence of housework is all the more necessary because housework passes unmentioned in the predominant stereotype of the housewife as a leisured homemaker . |
| 16 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 17 | Geriatrics became a serious medical specialty for the first time . |
| 18 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 19 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 20 | Shorty was also a good guide and mentor for a growing lad , as good a father as any man could want . |
| 21 | The key feature of effective mentor schemes is a genuine consistent interest on the part of the mentor for the young person . |
| 22 | Details have still to be worked out , but Chez reckons that with the aid of his home computer and his Nintendo Boot Sale Blitz game , he and I can milk off a tidy sum whilst still leaving the club with a small profit . |
| 23 | With the increase in public transport costs , road tax and insurance , more and more people are changing to the humble bike as an alternative form of transport . |
| 24 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 25 | Day at leisure , or hire a bike for an extra day . |
| 26 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |
| 27 | ‘ … is would be helpful if the Listing Division of the Department of the Environment could revise their own guidelines in order that certain pubs could receive more protection as an integral whole . |
| 28 | We owe another debt to the local English citizens who have restored and revitalized this building as a tangible memorial to those men . |
| 29 | The idea is to re-create the building as a 12-bed extension for the neighbouring and packed Stockton mission for the single homeless without losing its historical railway look . |
| 30 | I see the move into the people stage in building as a particular manifestation of the post — industrial culture , into which Western European societies will increasingly move . |