Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of my current joint studies programme — which is not strictly interdisciplinary — is mixed . |
| 2 | My concern that this might be a common fault was raised when I quoted the part number to my local Genuine Parts dealer who not only instantly recognised it , but knew how many were in stock and which bin they were stored in — and all without consulting the stores computer . |
| 3 | Today Mrs Goreng had bestowed her usual dazzling malai smile of white teeth on the Danuese teenager who had brought her a clean cup when De Gaulle said , ‘ Mrs Goreng , may I have a word with you ? ’ |
| 4 | In 1982 , the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( RSE ) , one of the most important learned societies in the country , transferred its extensive foreign periodicals collection to the National Library of Scotland ( NLS ) and it is now available in the SSL . |
| 5 | Hemmed in by a board school , a gasworks , a depot for Bass ale , and the neighbouring St Pancras Station , King 's Cross Goods Station was proclaimed by its retired outdoor Goods Manager to be in appearance ‘ prosaic enough — you ca n't go into ecstasies over the beauty of its situation or the classic lines of its architecture ’ . |
| 6 | Sally Gunnell , only the fifth British woman athlete to win an Olympic title , collected the Female Track Athlete award for her memorable 400 metres hurdle triumph in 53.23 seconds , while Tessa Sanderson was rewarded for her record fifth Olympics with the award for top Female Field Event Athlete . |
| 7 | He also sought China 's co-operation in putting pressure on North Korea to halt its suspected nuclear weapons development programme . |
| 8 | The move , linked to the United States announcement in October that it would withdraw all tactical nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula , followed fruitless efforts to persuade North Korea as a signatory to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty under the International Atomic Energy Agency and accept international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and to halt its suspected nuclear weapons development programme including the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant [ see p. 38396 ] . |
| 9 | Labour is simply trying to hide the awfulness that lurks behind its so-called fair rates system All the concern felt in local authorities in London and the south-east — which I well understand — really relates to grant . |
| 10 | Barbara Gaskin at Jarrolds had both Norwich in Old Picture Postcards and Norwich City Football in Old Picture Postcards in her top 10 paperbacks list . |
| 11 | In their 4-ply Bouncing Babes range , Spectrum have added a selection of ‘ spot dye ’ shades on 100 gram balls to retail at around £2.36 or less . |
| 12 | In consequence , its contemporary industrial relations scene has been markedly conditioned by values , conventions and traditions that were established in the past . |
| 13 | Seagram has poached one of its arch-rival 's top marketers , James Espey , to head its newly-formed global whiskies division . |
| 14 | The British Institute of Human Rights has published its annual Human Rights Case Digest for 1991 . |
| 15 | Purvis defends her national 25 miles championship at Andover tomorrow . |
| 16 | Ireland has become a recent entrant in this market with its International Financial Services Centre legislation . |
| 17 | NEUROSIS , Californian grindcore specialists , plug their current Alternative Tentacles LP ‘ Souls at Zero ’ at |
| 18 | In fact , Philips recently subsumed EIM into its UK-based Interactive Systems operation and has just announced plans for its own CD-I publishing company . |
| 19 | Inglewood , California-based Locus Computing Corp , has introduced Transparent Network Computing environment , TNC , the latest incarnation of its transport-independent distributed systems architecture ( UX No 271 ) , which will be competing for space with similar technologies from NobleNet Inc and Covia Technologies Inc ( UX No 395 ) . |
| 20 | To kick off with , ICL is making all of its existing secure systems technology available to Hughes STX , starting with Access Manager , the secure network password software , running on DRS6000 Sparc workstations . |
| 21 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 22 | But the show did give UK users a first chance to see Borland 's Paradox for Windows , Lotus 's Freelance Graphics 2 and its revolutionary new Windows spreadsheet , Improv ( see page 97 for a full review ) . |
| 23 | British Aerospace is seeking a partner to take over ‘ majority ownership ’ of its successful corporate jets business which builds the BAe 800 and 1000 . |
| 24 | Graseby Plc has proposed an initial public offering to list the common stock of its wholly-owned environmental products subsidiary , the Graseby Andersen Group , on the NASDAQ National Market System in the US . |
| 25 | To a very large extent Chalmers ' codification did not break new ground in the Bills of Exchange Act , 1882 — adopted with notifications in the United States as its Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law — but reproduced existing law . |
| 26 | China 's abstention also won it freedom from ‘ US concern ’ over its dismal human rights record and any criticism of its ongoing prosecution of prominent pro-democracy activists . |
| 27 | Following her win in Birmingham , she revealed her two-year plan to add the World , European and Commonwealth crowns to her Olympic one-lap hurdles title . |
| 28 | In 1969 the Labour Government was forced to abandon both the bill to reform the House of Lords and its projected Industrial Relations Bill , while in 1980 the Thatcher Government limited economic sanctions against Iran as a result of dissatisfaction in the Commons . |
| 29 | IRAQ is co-operating with United Nations efforts to destroy the heart of its secret nuclear weapons building programme at Al Atheer , 45 miles south-west of Baghdad . |
| 30 | In a busy building materials sector , that was responding to a stream of corporate figures , Epwin Group turned in an encouraging 96 p.c. take-up figures for its recent one-for-four rights issue . |