Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraging full use of the potential of the County 's rail links with Channel Tunnel rail terminals . |
| 2 | The subject 's response time per card was thus calculated . |
| 3 | The body 's defence mechanisms against infection — immunity ( p. 82 ) — can usually cope with small numbers and the body only succumbs to infection when the invading numbers are large or when , for various reasons , resistance is lowered . |
| 4 | Then , as much in guilty reaction to the receptionist 's parting look of disapproval as in the hope of ordering his thoughts , he took himself off to the bath . |
| 5 | The CIT is one of the sponsors of the conference which will include presentations by James Jerram , British Rail 's board member for finance ; Derek Harrington , managing director of the Port of Felixstowe ; and Robin Gisby of Charterail . |
| 6 | The prediction that Poisson deduced from Fresnel 's wave theory of light in 1818 , namely , that a bright spot should be observed at the centre of one side of an opaque disc suitably illuminated from the other , was novel because the existence of that bright spot was ruled out by the particle theory of light that formed part of the background knowledge of the time . |
| 7 | For example , Worrall 's study of the rejection of Thomas Young 's wave theory of light and the retention of Newton 's corpuscular theory in the early nineteenth century supports Lakatos . |
| 8 | But before God 's judgement seat of history , we remain responsible . |
| 9 | Patients manifesting cow 's milk allergy with skin symptoms reacted to lower volumes of milk than those with gastrointestinal symptoms ( Table I ) . |
| 10 | In continuation of a process begun in 1988 [ see p. 37589 ] two major bank mergers were announced in 1991 in order to streamline the country 's banking sector in preparation for the single European market in 1992 . |
| 11 | It was only this monthly accounting that worried me though , for I read every patient 's case notes with avidity . |
| 12 | By defining the object of policy in spatial terms the contradictory interests represented may be understandably subsumed in a real or imagined community identity which stems from or reproduces the notion of shared interests ( see Sue Buckingham-Hatfield 's case study in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | The Robemaker laughed , and the sound made Nuadu 's skin prickle with horror , for it was a sickening bone-against-bone sound . |
| 14 | Ali 's skin smells of earth and of trees . |
| 15 | The voice of the Colonel was faint , hard to understand , as they scurried bent low from the helicopter 's hatch door to safety beyond the reach of the thrashing rotor blades . |
| 16 | They increase the level of potassium in the body and this leads to a reduction in blood pressure , say researchers at Leicester General Hospital 's University Department of Medicine For The Elderly . |
| 17 | Connor McCaffrey ( 18 ) was taking the lift to his room at Queen 's University halls of residence when it became stuck between the third and fourth floors . |
| 18 | One particular area in which technical terms are likely to cause some problems is that of grammar : and here we shall follow the terminology and general view of grammar presented in Quirk and Greenbaum 's University Grammar of English . " |
| 19 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 20 | The evidence for grain-milling in small towns is limited but includes the third century building with two millstones in the Kate 's Cabin suburb at Water Newton , the three millstones in the yard of building 16 at Springheads and the very large millstone at Wanborough , which implies the use of water or other mechanical power . |
| 21 | In addition , the Royal Society of Arts offers somewhat similar Teacher 's Certificate courses in Office Arts and in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language for about l , 100 and 2,000 candidates and the College of Preceptors operates a relatively small programme leading to its Associateship and eventually to its Licentiateship , a qualification which is recognized as degree equivalent . |
| 22 | Time to Tell ( Merlin Books Ltd , 86pp , illus , sbk , £6.95 ) by Norman Cordingly OBE is the Author 's own story of his involvement with the Air Ministry and the development of Britain 's radar system during World War Two . |
| 23 | Then , he was presenting Bellamy 's Backyard Safari on behalf of BBC 1 and had been specially miniaturised for the role . |
| 24 | Basquiat père was shocked at the depiction of his son 's drug addiction in press accounts of the artist 's death , and the elder Basquiat 's lawyer says the estate may sue to stop the film , invoking laws in at least thirteen American states that enable an estate to stop the showing of a film because of objections to the exploitation of a physical likeness on the screen . |
| 25 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 50 people and wounded 500 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 26 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 40 people and wounded 350 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 27 | The IRR method implicitly assumes that a project 's annual cash flows can be reinvested at the project 's internal rate of return ; the NPV method assumes that the cash flows can be reinvested at the firm 's opportunity cost of capital . |
| 28 | Under the guidance of Mike Groom , the school 's curriculum leader for information technology , Brewood-Wheaton Aston pupils feed the farm records and general information into a computer . |
| 29 | The council 's curriculum working-party on lesbian and gay issues in education produced a thoughtful and well-researched document , Mirrors Round The Walls — Reflecting Diversity , which received none of the media interest experienced by the earlier misinformation . |
| 30 | Mr Li accused Mr Patten of perfidiously and unilaterally designing his proposals to alter Hong Kong 's election system in violation of the agreement on the 1997 handover . |