Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 2 | As we have shown , it remained a separate establishment following the reorganization of public sector higher education in Wales and it is now widely recognized as a national institution offering full-time and part-time courses for professional performers of Music and Drama , together with honours BEd . |
| 3 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 4 | For professional workers like solicitors and accountants , there may be greater discretion , but typically the individual 's work/leisure choice may be far more constrained . |
| 5 | It concerns evil spirits which are seen as rebellious creatures of Yahweh , bent on wrecking his purposes but ultimately subject to his control . |
| 6 | Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v. Peko-Wallsend Ltd. ( 1986 ) 162 C.L.R. 24 |
| 7 | However , in Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v. Peko-Wallsend Ltd . |
| 8 | AMONG a host of prestigious contracts won by Corporate Wedgwood is an order for 18,000 pieces of tableware for a restaurant on-board the luxury liner QE II . |
| 9 | In general the Lead Body operates through working groups of employers , trade unions and others . |
| 10 | The jury sat for 184 days in total , spread through a year and four days , the second longest criminal trial in English legal history . |
| 11 | Sixth , YWAM plants churches because they are a vital place of nurture for multi-generational groups of believers . |
| 12 | In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity . |
| 13 | Very large window areas allow for broad sweeps of display which grab the eye from far away , as they do at Waterstones ' even grander premises round the corner in Union Street . |
| 14 | It is probable that their thermo-regulatory techniques actually went through prolonged periods of metamorphoses . |
| 15 | During World War I Alice divided her time between entertaining in her home in Grosvenor Street and helping her friend , Lady Sarah Wilson , run a hospital for wounded soldiers in Boulogne . |
| 16 | Nine-day Caribbean fly-cruises start at around £700 and £450 in the Mediterranean for lazy days of sunshine , and inclusive food and entertainment . |
| 17 | As chapter 3 suggested , nationalized industry chairmen in Britain , on the rare occasions that they lose their positions , do so for political disagreements with ministers rather than through incompetent performance . |
| 18 | ENGLISH cricket fans are set to pay the price for political blunders at Lord 's when the crucial vote is taken in February on the venue for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 19 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 20 | Ouedraogo was replaced as secretary for political affairs by Roch Christian Kabore , whose portfolio as Minister of Transport and Communications went to Jacques Ouedraogo , hitherto permanent secretary in that ministry . |
| 21 | The current bill provided for compensation in relation to those killed , imprisoned or deported or whose property was expropriated for political reasons between March 11 , 1939 ( the date of the enactment of the first anti-Jewish laws ) and Oct. 23 , 1989 ( the date of the proclamation of the post-communist democratic republic ) . |
| 22 | But the whole Turkish diplomatic and consular establishment , which was further swollen for political reasons by Sultan Abdul Hamid in the 1880s and 1890s , was considerably reduced by the revolution of 1908 – 09 which overthrew him , so that by 1914 the foreign ministry staff had fallen to probably no more than 150 . |
| 23 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 24 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 25 | Amnesty International has received information about nearly 300 Ugandan nationals currently detained for political reasons in Rwanda . |
| 26 | The point they are making is that , for the most part , people still vote more for political parties in Britain than for the individual candidate . |
| 27 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 28 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 29 | While we have tried to offer suggestions for possible mixtures of cichlids , often as not it is a case of trial and error . |
| 30 | On that basis and assuming costs were held at 1989/90 levels with no allowance for possible changes in unit costs of inputs , the loss a farm would be between £23,7000 and £28,000 , depending on type of tenure . |