Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the north see for example Polunin ( 1951 ) , Young ( 1971 ) and Bliss ( 1981 ) ; Bliss ( 1981–9 ) provides a table of comparison between eight published biogeographical systems . |
| 2 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 3 | One of the laws of the jungle is that the greater the number of groups in the competitive struggle , for each to secure bigger increases than the others , the faster will wages rise . ’ |
| 4 | A £1.4 billion boost for the NHS would pay for 7,000 lost nursing jobs ( £136 million ) , keep open intensive care beds , improve hospitals and fund things like a desperately needed £10 million on ambulance services . |
| 5 | One way of achieving this is for MAS to hold all copies of the Information Memoranda and only to despatch these once the intermediary has returned a confidentiality undertaking to us . |
| 6 | There is still a strong sense in Britain that even to discuss foreign policy is somehow unpatriotic or obscene , and this certainly made it more difficult for Labour to raise international questions . |
| 7 | Cocooned inside fortress PWL , Kylie chose her first interviews in Britain to explain the homespun philosophy that was to keep body and soul together during this trying two months in Britain . |
| 8 | While many are praising the ruling for providing a chance for some to see such masterpieces as Matisse 's ‘ Grand Riffian ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Les Poseuses ’ without the required pilgrimage to Merion , Pennsylvania , critics of the decision are echoing a warning they have offered since the Barnes attempted to deaccession works last year . |
| 9 | For some , as in the Roman Catholic Church , this means taking a vow of celibacy ; for some entering religious orders it means taking the vows of celibacy , poverty and obedience . |
| 10 | For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet . |
| 11 | A restrictive covenant imposed after 1925 binds future owners if registered as a land charge Class D(ii) or on the Land Register . |
| 12 | One factor after another shows unfulfilled needs . |
| 13 | Instead , its officials believe that the unification of Europe 's financial markets after 1992 puts electronic link-ups between European derivative markets higher up the agenda . |
| 14 | The bit about is OK but should the Lukic figure read — 1.5 million , he has after all scored more goals for the opposition than for us . |
| 15 | We are after all teaching these children to count |
| 16 | Newport ..... 13 Barbarians .. 40 SO THE Welsh have not after all severed all links with South Africa . |
| 17 | Over the top , I hear you say , and so it is — splendidly over the top and a moment that will remind you , adrift in the endless hours of pseudo-realism , that the screen does after all have transformative powers . |
| 18 | After first removing many years ’ worth of nicotine from the walls , that is . ’ |
| 19 | The scale of urban decentralization after 1961 has important implications . |
| 20 | Transport and communications could soon after 1880 meet most needs of European commerce . |
| 21 | But one ca n't help wondering why , after two failed trans-Atlantic unions , he did n't decide to try British for once . |
| 22 | As Niki relates it , Chiti spent more time looking after two score stray dogs that roamed through the Alfa factory than he did making sure his engines actually ran . |
| 23 | The burst of growth and prosperity in America after 1945 had social consequences that were unprecedented anywhere in the world . |
| 24 | The NL especially suffered a major split because of its refusal after 1906 to endorse Conservative candidates . |
| 25 | In the zemstvo elections of 1909–10 they used the marginally greater electoral freedom granted after 1905 to elect vigorous upholders of the peasant interest . |
| 26 | At its annual meeting in Cochabamba , Colombia , in October 1990 the ATPC agreed to cut output by 6 per cent in 1991 to reduce world stocks and called for a " supply rationalisation scheme " during 1991 to reduce overhanging stocks by more than 5,000 tonnes . |
| 27 | Congress should be asked to continue economic and military aid with the objective of achieving a well-trained , efficient army of 65,000 men , including air detachments adequate for maintaining political order inside South Korea , a coastguard of 4,000 men , and a police force of 35,000 possessing small arms and ammunition . |
| 28 | The Local Government Planning Act of 1980 introduced major changes in the structure of the rate support grant , as follows : |
| 29 | The disk is covered by a dense coating of simple rods and trifid and bifid spinelets which are sometimes reduced resembling small granules , the proportions of each varies some specimens having nearly all rods . |
| 30 | The Secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting such minutes to be produced , and read and passed at each sederunt . |