Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahidjo decided in 1981 that for reasons of health , he would step down from the presidency but remain chairman of the ruling party , the Union Nationale Camerounaise ( UNC ) . |
| 2 | Males are generally the more mobile sex socially ; females commonly remain part of the same social unit throughout their lives and their relationships often provide a basic stability to it . |
| 3 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 4 | Some are comprehensive like AVC while others provide part of the total multimedia solution . |
| 5 | The five double fields ( each related to a professional register ) which comprise the degree in nursing and midwifery involve redefinition of the existing training scheme , accretion of new subject areas in health-related studies and the invention of a new and unique opportunity for intending students . |
| 6 | That development work or experiments which involve modification of the national curriculum in a school will require the approval of the Secretary of State may well serve to inhibit some forms of school-based curriculum innovation . |
| 7 | I acknowledge receipt of the principal Stated Case at your instance . |
| 8 | They also provide evidence of the various sources of income of the strikers : spouses ' job and savings were the two most important sources ; tax rebates were an important source for both strikes , but supplementary benefit was insignificant for one strike because of their union 's practice of providing strike pay . |
| 9 | The boreholes were drilled into windows of Mesozoic rock and provide evidence of the sub-Tertiary geology of the North Rockall Trough which is now being explored by a number of oil companies . |
| 10 | Our conventions and those of other societies differ , but to the extent that they regard consent as expressing certain worthwhile relations , as a constituent element of such relations , they provide validation of the appropriate kinds of consent . |
| 11 | It grows in particular communities and in the difficult-to-define territory of the national consciousness . |
| 12 | We expect heating of the ambient ionospheric electron gas in response to the precipitation of solar wind plasma , and the plasma density data ( not shown ) reveal that weak density increases emerge within the events late in their lifetime , at the highest latitudes . |
| 13 | Kisses chart collapse of the royal marriage |
| 14 | Of 38 species of birds that breed south of the Antarctic Convergence , seven are penguins , four albatrosses , 20 smaller petrels , and seven others include gulls , skuas , terns and cormorants . |
| 15 | Dumbfounded , Caroline watched him catch hold of the dark girl 's arms , steadying her . |
| 16 | I remember talking to the Chinese Trade Minister , with Louis Portman , export manager of the British Motor Corporation , in the hope of persuading the Chinese to buy tractors then being made in Bathgate . |
| 17 | I seize control of the middle ground and let my powerful queen swoop across the board like a ballistic missile . |
| 18 | In 1610 his son Robert published a collection of foreign and English songs , A Musicall Banquet , including two from Caccini 's Nuove Musiche ; and two of the three by his father — ‘ Far from triumphing court ’ and ‘ In darkness let me dwell ’ ( Dowland 's supreme masterpiece of emotional declamation ) — reveal awareness of the new style . |
| 19 | Henk Vlug of the Dutch Plant Protection Service has suggested that the beetles are attracted to the fields by the odour of manure and lay their eggs in the slits . |
| 20 | ( Show map of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea . ) |
| 21 | Should you miss a decompression stop , an emergency screen shows missed decompression stop , including the ceiling and stop time of the missed stop and the numbers of the tissues affected . |
| 22 | Dina Castro , Advocate General of the Poor , also recognized that the situation of single mothers was " critical " , although her government department was doing nothing to assist them . |
| 23 | I sort of recognise it , but I ai n't sure — a lot of places look sort of the same . |
| 24 | To further illustrate synthesis of a band-pass filter , consider development of the second-order low-pass filter of figure 12.2(a) into the band-pass form of figure 12.4 . |
| 25 | It is lighter in weight and does not need the heavy winches and guide frame of the deep diving bells . |
| 26 | ‘ Mash flooding of the utmost severity … feared that many lives have been lost … great damage to property … |
| 27 | For example , I have found an account dated 10 December1924 by Modigliani 's mother : ten pages closely typed on a poor typewriter which give information of the utmost importance about Modigliani 's life in Leghorn , from his birth in 1884 to his arrival in Paris in 1906 . |
| 28 | Now it is used widely in a geographical sense for all the plains , vegetated but treeless , that lie north of the boreal forest in Europe , Siberia , North America and Greenland , up to the boundary of the polar desert . |
| 29 | Antarctic islands that lie north of the northern limit of pack ice have markedly longer summers and milder winters than those that are invested by pack ice . |
| 30 | Purchase copy of The Modern Book of Babies ' Names , by Hilary Spence . |