Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a speech by Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , to barristers this month , there have been fears that senior judges involved in drawing up rules would effectively block the use of the new rights in practice , by insisting that preparation of some cases and their presentation in court should be handled by different people . |
| 2 | We argue , therefore , that differentiation of first deliveries from subsequent deliveries is mandatory before further investigations into differences in obstetric outcome are initiated . |
| 3 | On that issue , there is little enthusiasm in other parts of Europe for air-launched systems . |
| 4 | The report drew little enthusiasm from environmental groups . |
| 5 | But , on the other hand , this perspective produces global strategies which have little purchase on concrete instances , and tend to assume instead the burden of a messianic project in which the enemy is supposedly being smashed , crushed , or stamped out for ever . |
| 6 | Stewart and Tait could at best demonstrate the possibility of eternal life ; no traveller returned from that bourne with authentic tidings , except Jesus long ago . |
| 7 | What we need is is equal incentives to take our money and put that money into private companies . |
| 8 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 9 | They know that the European Commission is blocking that money for sound reasons . |
| 10 | You should sell some shares for cash and invest that money in other areas . |
| 11 | I then cut each strip into rectangular pieces , two feet by one . |
| 12 | Each component of these models was then expanded in the same manner to identify the associated activities . |
| 13 | Thus , even on the unrealistic assumption that consumers acting through the market are able to force managements to produce at the lowest possible cost , companies nevertheless retain a discretion within that constraint over such issues as plant location , appropriate levels of automation , and policy on research and development , since these and other delegated questions do not yield unique least-cost solutions . |
| 14 | Shinwell , of course , had little patience with such assertions , though he later conceded that running the finances of the Sailors and Firemen was far from easy . |
| 15 | This prospect appeared to recede after the Washington talks , however , as both sides reported little progress on outstanding issues , particularly on the provisions dealing with air- and sea-launched long-range missiles , with the Soviet side still seeking a treaty to cover air-launched cruise missiles carried by tactical fighters as well as by heavy bombers . |
| 16 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 17 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 18 | Nowhere do the Government admit that they have produced a recession which they regret , or that they have magnified the extent of that recession by past policies . |
| 19 | With little experience of Visual Effects construction techniques , Cusick was concerned lest the labour fees involved ( the costliest part of any Effects job ) would make his drawings cost-impractical . |
| 20 | The reason is not simply that the developer has little experience of historic buildings , but that the pension fund or insurance company buying it wants a building which is effectively new , with a sure life of many years ahead of it . |
| 21 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 22 | I have little experience in these matters . |
| 23 | ‘ But where did you get that bit about Gay Times calling me ‘ the most gorgeous man in British football ’ ? ’ |
| 24 | the money that we save on on on the residential bit we could perhaps say , right then we 'll do that bit in four days . |
| 25 | Chisel it , and then carry that mass in diminishing particles to the taps and basins and sinks and cooking saucepans of the barracks . |
| 26 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 27 | Each part of these proposals is now considered . |
| 28 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 29 | But for the moment it seems that Chevenement is fighting to keep up appearances of big budget increases while losing at least a little ground to other ministries in that fight for limited funds . |
| 30 | Having no steady work means Texas has little money for such luxuries , anyway . |