Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , official intervention into their lives offered police an easy opportunity for general surveillance of the poor neighbourhoods in which they resided . |
| 2 | Ground-based observations , on the other hand , offer an opportunity for remote sensing of the plasma in a given region over a prolonged period . |
| 3 | The Science and Technology Studies stream provides an opportunity for advanced study of the complex forces shaping modern technology . |
| 4 | FIVE WEEKS before Brazil 's first presidential elections in 29 years , an increasingly volatile political and economic situation favours a struggle between youthful candidates of the right and left . |
| 5 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 6 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 7 | By this time , however , SAVE had received permission for judicial review of the ministers ’ decision and suddenly the picture changed entirely . |
| 8 | Enquiries related to redundant churches , and especially their adaptation , should be addressed in the first place either to the secretary of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee of the Diocese ( see diocesan handbook ) or to the Secretary of the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches of the Church Commissioners . |
| 9 | In addition , there is no provision for manual control of the sound level control on most models , and a further difficulty is that there are times when a single microphone is not sufficient to do the job properly in any case . |
| 10 | The treaty of October 1954 included temporary provision for British re-use of the base in an East–West crisis . |
| 11 | Since the first edition of this book both the Matrimonial Homes ( Co-ownership ) Bill introduced in the House of Lords in 1980 ( which would have made provision for statutory co-ownership of the matrimonial home ) and the Land Registration of Law of Property Bill ( affecting the practice that has grown up following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland ) [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) have failed . |
| 12 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 13 | His proudest achievement has been the restoration , with other villagers , of the run-down village green to its former glory as focal point of the community . |
| 14 | Samson Agonistes 's presentation of a hero whose refusal to capitulate allows him to regain divine inner light and inflict a defeat on his enemies bears witness to the plea for continued resistance of the type a republican supporter would propose during a time of defeat . |
| 15 | This was attributed to some extent to heightened expectations among the disenfranchised majority , and , in Natal , to a bitter struggle for political control of the townships . |
| 16 | It has , from all accounts , been a successful marriage — as clearly shown , in part , by his recent recording of the American composer John Corigliano 's brilliant First Symphony ( which has just won the 1992 Grammy Award as Classical Record of the Year ) . |
| 17 | After Jackie Smale 's departure , most of the new clothes were created by Tim Gardner , a freelance designer who subsequently won an award as Romantic Designer of the Year . |
| 18 | Britten 's first librettist was W. H. Auden , later to become Hofmannsthal 's successor as prime librettist of the age , with operatic books written , in collaboration with Chester Kallman , for Stravinsky ( The Rake 's Progress ) and Hans Werner Henze ( Elegy for Young lovers , the Bassarids ) . |
| 19 | Nor could he ignore American enthusiasm for British membership of the EEC , in part to ensure a better balance among the states of Western Europe , but also in the hope that Britain would strengthen those in the Community who favoured more liberal and outward looking economic policies . |
| 20 | In the early part of the year the Bank was honoured as the winner of the category for Outstanding support of the Arts in the Scottish Awards for Business Sponsorship of the Arts . |
| 21 | His wife , Mary , accompanied him on his early forays , but in 1862 , while travelling on the Zambezi , she caught a fever and died , worn out by the privations of travel and child bearing — her fifth child was born under a camel thorn bush on a trek through arid wastes of the interior ; her fourth child , born on an earlier trek , had lived only six weeks . |
| 22 | At the Birmingham summit EC leaders confirmed their support for early ratification of the Treaty without renegotiation , and sought to introduce greater transparency into the working of the EC in order to win the support of citizens , especially in Denmark and the UK where there was greatest opposition to ratification . |
| 23 | The positive vote on IMF and World Bank membership and polling evidence showing growing support for Swiss membership of the European Communities ( EC ) prompted the government to announce on May 18 that it would immediately lodge an application . |
| 24 | As always they will go to businesses and organisations whose support for various aspects of the arts throughout 1992 has most impressed the ABSA judges who get down to the business of sifting through hundreds of entries early next month . |
| 25 | ( j ) to plan and seek support for subsequent years of the Project |
| 26 | He held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Mahathir Mohamed , who announced his support for Vietnamese membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 27 | For her part Thatcher reiterated her support for rapid admission of the new East European democracies to the EC ( many observers suggested that she saw enlargement as a way of halting moves towards EC political and monetary union ) . |
| 28 | The treaty included ( i ) a promise to work " to create a Europe in which human rights … are respected " ; ( ii ) German support for Hungarian membership of the European Communities ( EC ) " as soon as the political and economic prerequisites are fulfilled " ; ( iii ) German support for the development of a social market economy in Hungary ; and ( iv ) a Hungarian undertaking to " take concrete steps to promote the protection and strengthening of the identity of the German minority " in Hungary . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on co-operation and co-ordination between Foreign Ministers of the European Community . |
| 30 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |