Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of each course sports with prizes should be held and a bullock given as a prize to the best drill squad and all round ‘ Sirit ’ [ company ] whose instructor might also be rewarded .
2 Each instalment packs in features on news , style , music and surveys of the dance scenes in fashionable European and American cities .
3 The evidence suggests that income differentials between households at the top and bottom of the income scale narrowed during the war years of 1939–45 and that , through the late 1940s , the poorest households found basic necessities increasingly affordable .
4 And the third is the current military method of implementing that Defence policy in terms of operational roles and resources allotted to the different elements of our military forces .
5 That blow scores of trees down : cattle , horses on the meadow , some on 'em .
6 Check the gaps around window and door frames ( C ) and that drip grooves on sills ( A ) are not blocked with paint .
7 Paish feels he has a tougher job instilling that killer instinct in footballers than athletes .
8 Each data point in Figs 4 to 9 represent the mean of two experiments and the results from the ascending and descending colon in corresponding patients are joined by lines in Figs 4 to 6 .
9 Where possible data were subjected to analysis of variance to enable the effects of preincubation with TPA to be evaluated after the removal from consideration of the slight variation in the responsiveness of each cell batch to agonists .
10 Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience .
11 On April 22nd , for instance , one trust bank is said to have bought 1,000 Nikkei futures contracts , representing some ¥20 billion-worth of shares .
12 Does the form of this story sound off echoes for you ?
13 Observing that primary education is the ‘ foundation upon which all subsequent stages of education are built ’ the committee accepted ( as do the majority of contemporary documents ) that some curriculum guidance to schools is necessary and appropriate .
14 They too are capable of evolving in the direction of becoming better enemies , in this case enemies of cheetahs .
15 In this case mobility between firms is constrained because labour may have to sacrifice the growth in earnings they could expect if they remained with their current firm .
16 And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market .
17 However , in its simplest form , this technique results in words having one single sense definition remaining .
18 Stay 2 weeks and have an extra week free on half board basis for arrivals between 6 Apr–31 July and 1 Sep–31 Oct .
19 I can nurse this cockroach juice for hours . ’
20 His claim gave him a useful propaganda weapon , some bargaining power in negotiations , and a basis on which to appeal to discontented French vassals ; it was also a convenient argument with which to counter Philip 's confiscation of Aquitaine .
21 In some cases pairs of cells will be seen to be attached by a cytoplasmic bridge ( the " midbody " ) , which represents the remains of the previous cleavage furrow and hence indicates the original point of contact between the cells as well as the orientation of the cleavage plane ( 12 ) .
22 Individual teachers , or in some cases groups of teachers in cooperation , will need to plan their own school units .
23 In some cases groups of villagers rented them , in others local landowners and in others again merchants , who took them on a speculative basis ( 209 , p.282 ) .
24 Here we need only note that all applications for a prerogative order are public actions ; and in some cases applications for declarations and injunctions must be made in accordance with Order 53 .
25 In some cases Heads of Departments may be able to advise applicants of other awards available in specific subject or project areas .
26 His warning follows another close-season merry-go-round of players changing clubs amid rumours of big-money payments .
27 Thus , Tumin argues that ‘ some labour force of unskilled workmen is as important and as indispensable to the factory as some labour force of engineers ’ .
28 Some temperaments hanker after blueprints — ‘ if only I could find the right formula I 'd triumph ’ .
29 Because of this skill differential between insiders and outsiders , and hence the strong preference of firms to continue to employ insiders , the power of outsiders , who are unemployed , to affect the outcome of the wage bargain struck between firms and insiders is minimal over a significant range of wage changes .
30 Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’
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