Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In times of financial stringency and the adoption of Value for Money strategies in government those with financial expertise may acquire power . |
| 2 | Three skinheads were each sentenced in Frankfurt-an-der Oder on Sept. 14 to four years ' imprisonment for beating up three African immigrants , one of whom subsequently died , in Eberswalde in November 1991 . |
| 3 | As a precaution it drew up contingency plans in May 1946 in case the loan was rejected by the US Congress , plans which included a list of significant import cuts . |
| 4 | SUSSEX SOCIETY OF REFEREES are organising a residential conference at Sussex University from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th September 1992 to mark their 60th year . |
| 5 | The protracted budgetary negotiations involving the administration and a group of Republican and Democrat legislators on Sept. 30 produced a draft agreement for fiscal 1991 which aimed at reducing the budget deficit by $500,000 million over a five-year period . |
| 6 | The programme 's main aim was to reduce the budget deficit by $904 million during 1991 . |
| 7 | The agreement , reached on Sept. 30 after weeks of protracted negotiation between the administration and the Democratic-dominated Congress , had aimed to reduce the budget deficit by $40,000 million by increasing excise taxes and reducing benefits , particularly in the Medicare health programmes for the elderly . |
| 8 | From anarchist opponents of authority such as William Godwin and Robert Paul Wolff through moderate supporters such as John Rawls and Joseph Raz and on to enthusiasts such as Hobbes , Hannah Arendt and Michael Oakeshott , a considerable chorus of students have echoed the refrain that the directives … of authority are to be obeyed by B irrespective of B 's judgments of their merits ’ . |
| 9 | Elected Members of Parliament , councillors and others interested have been dependent , like the general public , on press reports and the monitoring activities of groups such as the Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace , Greenpeace and the Northern European Information Group . |
| 10 | South Korea made an eleventh hour concession on Aug. 12 by suggesting that the North might be permitted to select only those whom it wished to receive from the 61,000 names on the list . |
| 11 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 12 | documentation necessary for submission of the first outline course proposals under Batch 1 of the new , operational system ; |
| 13 | In general , in three-variable contingency tables , to find the direct effect of X 1 on Y controlling for X 2 we consider each category of X 2 in turn , and subtract the proportion who are Y in the base category of X 1 from the proportion who are Y in the non-base category of X 1 . |
| 14 | Cosmids containing transcripts were identified by hybridization of the pooled , enriched cDNA PCR products to cosmids positive for y178–3 . |
| 15 | For instance , a request for a male in operations department who can speak Italian can be tested by comparing each of the bit-pattern index entries in Table 8.3 against a mask of : The Boolean condition will be an AND , which will only return a true indication if all these bits are on . |
| 16 | IBM Corp 's new chief executive is being swamped with gratuitous advice on what he should do to turn the company around , but that coming from Stephen Smith , who has tracked the computer industry for PaineWebber Inc for 11 years , is probably worth more of Gerstner 's attention than most . |
| 17 | A Swiss referendum vote on Dec. 6 against ratification , while it did not dissuade the other participants ( including Liechtenstein ) from proceeding , did necessitate " technical " modifications to provide for an 18-member EEA . |
| 18 | The decision to conduct debate on the war in closed session was taken by a majority vote on Feb. 13 on the proposal of the UK . |
| 19 | If it is not due to diagnostic suspicion bias then postulated mechanisms might include changes in gall bladder contractility associated with the progesterone content , or increased cholesterol saturation of bile due to the oestrogen content . |
| 20 | Fund-holders can spend any budget savings on things such as new equipment , extra rooms and extra staff . |
| 21 | Early opinion poll results suggested that the banking scandal , reinforcing public cynicism and hostility towards Congress , could act as a catalyst for the election defeat in November 1992 of a number of incumbent US legislators unprecedented in the modern era . |
| 22 | Prince of Wales cancelled appearance at annual Garter ceremony at Windsor due to back problems aggravated by polo . |
| 23 | When articulated as a teaching programme for English one of the most interesting features of this urge to develop a " common touch " , or an affective bond between teachers and taught , is the centrality to be accorded to popular tastes , however " crude and unformed " they might be considered to be . |
| 24 | The Reuters news agency reported on Jan. 8 that three members of the banned People 's Party of Brunei ( the main driving force behind the 1962 rebellion ) had been detained by the Brunei authorities in March 1989 after returning from exile . |
| 25 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration spent nearly £75 million out of its gross aid budget of £1029 million for 1981/82 on water and sanitation projects . |
| 26 | A Soviet team acting under the terms of the INF treaty undertook a final inspection of the UK Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common in Berkshire on May 28 following the removal of the last cruise missiles in March [ see p. 38122 ] . |
| 27 | But Cadbury Schweppes , which last month completed the £141m purchase of Crush International from Procter & Gamble , says the brand values being acquired justified the price and it expects to find synergy benefits with its own extensive bottling operations in Spain and Portugal . |
| 28 | The 1989 draft budget of US$4,410 million , set against projected revenues of $3,510 million , was returned to the Finance and Industry Ministry in August 1989 for further cuts to reduce the proposed deficit of $900,000,000 . |
| 29 | or a three-year honours degree in Sport and Leisure Studies followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Education appropriate for teaching in secondary schools . |
| 30 | After years of searching farmland and finding silver coins from Elizabeth I to George III , I have at last found by first Roman coin . |