Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [noun] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slump in the modern , contemporary , and Impressionist sections of the Spanish art market contrasts , according to Peel , with a buoyant market for quality Spanish Old Master works and for Old Master artists with Spanish connections . |
| 2 | The principal , who has already forecast that the dispute could place the future of the school and 50 jobs in jeopardy , said he was anxious to have talks with the strikers ‘ to explore what they hope to gain through possible further strike action and for how long they are likely to continue . ’ |
| 3 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 4 | The most explicit was that of John Goodwin of Over Winchendon , ‘ landes in this shere vijli viijs and in all other shires of England xijli ’ . |
| 5 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 6 | ‘ This Index only works well in some natural science fields and on American soil , and only in ‘ normal science ’ areas . |
| 7 | The story of the rise and fall of this great coal port and of the fortunes of the people who lived and worked here is told through a dramatic interpretation set in a simulated dockland environment . |
| 8 | The Head of Business Information has served as Secretary of the Scottish Online Users Group and as Editor for the Library Association Industrial Group ( Scotland ) . |
| 9 | With December seeing only 2 full weeks activity and with Scotland enjoying its holiday over the New Year I trust Scottish colleagues enter 1991 appropriately refreshed and renewed . |
| 10 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 11 | We know that fusion occurs : thermonuclear explosions or ‘ H-bombs ’ are uncontrolled examples of fusion , we have the Sun as evidence of a self-sustaining controlled fusion machine and in the laboratory we can replicate the nuclear processes that fuel it . |
| 12 | I mean people who are living in the old common lodging houses and in government resettlement units , people living in squats and dingy bed-and-breakfast hotels , and families living cooped up with their relatives because there 's nowhere else for them to go . |
| 13 | The challenge had come from Justice Department lawyers with top secret security clearances and from civilian Army drug counsellors . |
| 14 | The umbrella organization hoped for funding from the West German Christian Democrat parties and at that stage comprised 12 opposition groups including the German Forum Party , the Progressive People 's Party , and the Christian Social Party of Germany ( Christliche Soziale Partei Deutschlands — CSPD ) . |
| 15 | Goodwin ( 1986 : 3 ) takes up an idea which originated with Milliband : ‘ some local state institutions and in particular local government both represent local interests and , at the same time , represent the social interests dominant at the centre ’ . |
| 16 | Churchill investigated German local labour exchanges and within a year proposed to the Cabinet their introduction and that of unemployment insurance and the development of employment opportunities in the countryside . |
| 17 | Although an accomplished politician he was hampered by his background as a member of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency and as a graduate of the Korean Military Academy . |
| 18 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 19 | O. glacialis can be distinguished from O. purpureus by the absence of tentacle scales ; the shape and position of the second oral tentacle scales and by a lack of dorsal arm plates . |
| 20 | More importantly , however , the model alone is not sufficient , for it must be placed in the context both of the individual social work team and of the local authority department as a whole ( Hill , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | In a reply to Openshaw 's strictures Webber ( 1980 ) , however , reiterated the difficulty of working with such vast data sets and with new complex statistical procedures involving dozens of variables , and claimed that the classification was as far advanced as any could be , bearing in mind the constraints of public policy and the realities of time and cost . |
| 22 | Consensus management had led to " lowest common denominator decisions and to long delays in the management process " ( p. 17 ) . |
| 23 | It survives in some remaining large-scale engineering plants and in the pits and has also been taken up in public sector employment in the National Civil Service ( particularly at the Longbenton Head Office of the DHSS ) , the Health Service and Local Authorities . |
| 24 | Statutory authority for the supply of funds to meet expenditure is provided by means of annual Consolidated Funds Acts and by an annual Appropriation Act . |
| 25 | The fence was a four-strand barbed wire job and beyond it were rows of green plants about four feet high . |
| 26 | It has , however , been made more visible in recent years by the lower national birth rate and by the strong natural increase of immigrant groups , resulting from their youthful age structure and relatively high fertility . |
| 27 | They linked in , for example , with Aboriginal community leaders working on the National Aboriginal Health Strategy and with the housing and transport sector during the development of the healthy environment targets . |
| 28 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 29 | In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines . |
| 30 | The location-factor approach focused on large numerical data sets and on finding statistically significant relationships between variables . |