Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A " moral duty " may similarly exist in the case of a specialist journal circulating only , say , to members of a profession , who would have a shared interest in receiving information about discreditable conduct of a fellow member . |
| 2 | This redefinition of the role of bureaucracy has occurred within the context of a re-evaluation of democratic theory which places the significance of individualism as a basis for political participation in a secondary position to association and group action . |
| 3 | Higher levels of analysis can provide extra knowledge , both to aid detection of errors , and to make alternative suggestions for possible correction of a detected error . |
| 4 | His position as gérant commandité in a mixed liability company arrangement means that he will be unbudgeable from the head of Matra-Hachette 's management for the next six years , though his personal assets will be exposed if the group suffers any setbacks . |
| 5 | One critic has described the model as ‘ an unholy alliance of enthusiasts for strong management with a sufficient number of apathetic teachers ’ . |
| 6 | A ‘ Business Says Yes ’ group has been formed , claiming widespread support from small and medium-sized business for strong powers for a Scottish assembly , although critics claim its membership is tiny . |
| 7 | Research is an active and formally organised search for specific information for a specific purpose . |
| 8 | Instead of responding to a pair of words , readers were asked to look for specific relationships between a single word and a sentence . |
| 9 | The process of checking for unnecessary points on a digitized line should be capable of being performed within the GIS . |
| 10 | I can see Eliot pacing under the mighty oaks and pushing his way through hazel thickets in a smart suit , a bowler hat , and grey spats . ’ |
| 11 | If we look back to Chapter 1 , we can see that the constitutional authorities regarded the British constitution as properly providing for representative government of a liberal-democratic kind . |
| 12 | Among right handers , Hines and Satz ( 1971 ) obtained a significant tachistoscopic RVF superiority , at least at certain rates of stimulus presentation , among right handers having left handed relatives ; a non-significant LVF advantage was obtained for right handers without a positive family history of sinistrality . |
| 13 | Hunt stewards are trying to force the saboteurs off private land onto a public footbath . |
| 14 | Hutchison Telecommunications UK Ltd 's Hutchison Paging has launched a financial services pager for private investors in a joint venture with the Financial Times Cityline stocks and shares information line : the pager covers 3,000 shares and within one minute of a chosen counter reaching a pre-set value , the pager automatically bleeps and displays a phone number , which can be called to hear the details ; the pager costs £160 plus tax , and includes a year 's subscription to the service , which will cost £100 plus tax for subsequent years . |
| 15 | In English and Englishness Brian Doyle describes a contemporary tendency of English teachers to retreat into a museum-like or ‘ monumental , role as professional curators of a residual ‘ national cultural heritage ’ . |
| 16 | One notable attempt to differentiate between political institutions within a post-colonial state , and account for the relative power of the bureaucracy by reference to the class structure of the colonial legacy , is Meillasoux 's ( 1970 ) study of Mali . |
| 17 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 18 | Planning permission is being sought for a 72,000 sq ft factory to be built by The Development Board for Rural Wales on a new six acre site in the town . |
| 19 | On June 5 , at the conclusion of peace talks in the Nigerian capital of Abuja between the Sudanese government and the two factions of the rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , a joint communiqué was agreed upon , committing all parties to " peaceful negotiations " , which would be continued through Nigerian mediation at a future date . |
| 20 | King Hussein called for regional reconciliation in a televised address to the country on March 1 . |
| 21 | This bass preamp comes loaded with goodies , such as 4-band EQ with a variable crossover to enable bi-amping . |
| 22 | Earlier in the Victorian period , in the winter of 1862 , panic swept through respectable London over a new variety of crime called ‘ garotting ’ , a type of violent robbery that involved choking the victim . |
| 23 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 24 | Warehouse Supervisor Gerry O'Conner 's son Brian has joined the professional golfing rank as Assistant Professional at a private course in Airdrie . |
| 25 | Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies . |
| 26 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 27 | The use of markets for economic allocation in a capitalist system has been seen to possess the following drawbacks : |
| 28 | More than 36,000 Chinese people have turned themselves in for economic crimes during a 10-week grace period that ended last week . |
| 29 | There was the scandal of the Westminster Council 's sale of cemeteries for 15 pence ; a report of an enterprising Yorkshireman , Edgar Dakin , who , shocked at the prices charged for memorial headstones in the conventional marble or granite , had patented his design for thermoplastic ones at a tiny fraction of the cost ; and yet another that was virtually a half-hour commercial on BBC television for the ubiquitous Hodgson Holdings . |
| 30 | However , this was so clearly inadequate in the 1290s that Edward was forced to resort to his subjects , lay and clerical , for direct taxation on a national scale . |