Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence .
2 The open-form torsion angles are observed values for the phospho-free state of HPr ; the closed-form torsion angles of Ala16 are for the modelled phosphorylated state of HPr .
3 Such adherence to international standards makes it but a one-step process for the actual final assembler of the complete system to obtain either US FCC or European VDE electronic emission approvals .
4 Superficially , the results for the lexical alternant class of ( pull ) were much the same also .
5 She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow .
6 For the dull pink flowers on the insides of the shoes , Mars black derived from permanent rose .
7 The young office worker in a safe sedentary job may well take up rock-climbing as a dangerous , physically exacting antidote for the dull occupational part of his life .
8 Father Tom Connolly , the spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland , blamed any decline in young people 's behaviour on adults .
9 A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds said : ‘ Those who criticise or accuse do so as private individuals .
10 Perhaps the most striking case was that of William Patrick James Fair ( Bill Fair ) who had been a student for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the Carmelite College in Cork .
11 IT says a lot for the African National Congress in South Africa that , after their supporters were gunned down in cold blood at the beginning of the week , they are still prepared to talk peace .
12 Then for the mere trifling expense of printing a few worthless shares in a company that had no hope of building a line , the owner of the list could issue writs and summonses enforcing payment on the hapless subscribers .
13 ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to .
14 A spokesman for the mainstream al-Fatah movement of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) denied the Israeli claim that the six guerrillas were affiliated to al-Fatah .
15 Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation .
16 Flanker Fox tested positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine following Neath 's opening league game against Pontypridd on September 5 .
17 Care must be taken to select the correct neutralizing agent for the specific odorous gas to be treated and there are obvious difficulties when both acidic and alkaline compounds are present in the gas stream .
18 The average age at which people marry remained more or less stable for the preceding two centuries until the end of the Second World War , when it began to fall , but there were notable changes in the pattern of childbearing , especially between 1870 and 1930 .
19 For the ordinary civilian politicians of Bharatpur , these complex family questions are tending to obscure what is looming as a tense election battle in a pivotal seat that both sides badly need to win .
20 Ordinary subsidies : every missionary bishop gets , without fail each year , an ordinary subsidy of up to twenty thousand pounds for the ordinary day-to-day running of the diocese .
21 Most of the graphs were set on a steep , ascending curve , apart from the Husayn twins ' ; they started in the top left hand corner and were headed , inexorably , for the far right end of the bottom line .
22 But in recognition of Scotland 's turbulent history , the Norse barn style was adopted for the far northern stations of Thurso and Wick .
23 He then managed to increase the club 's fee-paying members , from 6,000 to 22,000 , and bargained with the local council to rent the stadium for the princely annual sum of one peseta .
24 And those Games are in preparation for a trip to Spain for the Junior European Championships in July .
25 Sarah Jayne Miskelly , who joins McNamee in the Ulster squad for the Junior Interprovincial Championships in Dublin on Saturday , maintained a strong Darragh Cross presence in the Vi-Sport schools event by taking the girls title .
26 Clarke equalled the United Kingdom junior women 's record of 2.95 metres , and must now wait anxiously to see if she is selected for the junior international match against Hungary later this month .
27 Except for the acute pathogenic variant of simian immunodeficiency ( SIV ) PBj14 , no HIV or virus strains activate normal T cells or isolated viral proteins .
28 Effective school management uses external initiatives as a prompt to and support for the logical next stage of a school 's development .
29 Informal approaches were made six months ago to companies in the United States , Japan and France to see if they would be interested in supplying fuel for the advanced gas-cooled reactors at a considerably lower price than charged by British Nuclear Fuels .
30 We shaved , for the oxygen mask would drive you crazy if you did n't , showered and went to the mess hall for the usual powdered eggs for breakfast .
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