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

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1 The airframe is immaculate , with a wonderful paint job kept pristine with the help of a large bag of polishing cloths by the hangar wall .
2 Porous sandstones near the top of the Sherwood Sandstone occur beneath thick impervious halite horizons in the Mercia Mudstone .
3 Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure .
4 16.3 The supply of money Definitions of the money supply in the UK
5 And there was n't the defence the water defences , tide defences on the west shore then that there is now you know .
6 However , the field patterns over the land area in the upper left of the image are blurred by the smoothing operation .
7 Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort .
8 The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible .
9 A reverse takeover offer is one where an offeror company makes a general offer to the shareholders of a larger company to acquire their shares in exchange for new shares in the offeror company , with the shareholders in the larger company becoming the majority shareholders in the offeror company .
10 The Offtackle Plan of November 1949 referred to the need to retard a Soviet advance , but the Americans continued to refine their contingency plans for a fighting retreat to such peripheral positions in or around continental Europe as proved tenable against a Soviet offensive .
11 We leafed through the various contingency plans in the Home Secretary 's committee but none seemed satisfactory .
12 Difficulties arise with such techniques when it is necessary to choose both the objectives and constraint forms for a design condition that contains a large number of conflicting requirements .
13 Now 12 and mad about chemistry , he enjoys building molecules on the kitchen table .
14 Darlington Waggon and Engineering Company ( DWEC ) won many bridge building contracts on the Assam Bengal Railway between Chittagong , Syhlet and Dacca from 1884–92 .
15 However , the level of support activities to the oil industry was maintained with sales of gas oil reaching their highest level since the company was formed .
16 The level of other support activities to the oil industry , however , was maintained and sales of gas oil reached their highest levels since the formation of the company in 1984 .
17 Whatever the tide states at the lock gates , the ri the channel is dredged ten feet below that .
18 In search of presents without a future Rob Ainsley pinpoints those eminently disposable stocking fillers for the computer buff who has everything .
19 Ultimately , the effect of the introduction of index futures on the information content of share prices is an empirical matter .
20 Illustration of typical constructions or sentence patterns in the target language .
21 Feeding Apple Snails presents no problems ; algae and duckweed cleared from other tanks are rapidly disposed of ; and lettuce , cucumber and kitchen scraps of a vegetable nature are all eagerly taken .
22 ( 1842–75 ) , painter who provided one illustration for the Cheap Edition of The Uncommercial Traveller ( 1865 ) , and four woodcut illustrations for the Library Edition of the same book , in one of which , ‘ Leaving the Morgue ’ , he portrays CD .
23 The African Development Bank is to draw up new guidelines for funding projects in the forestry sector .
24 In general terms the War Wagon fights like a chariot , and players should familiarise themselves with the chariot rules in the Warhammer rulebook .
25 The parameter values of the QPO feature are much better constrained than the red-noise part .
26 Such measures involve different aspects : physical security , such as the security of disk storage facilities , from flood as well as unauthorised access ; software security , such as maintaining a log of all failed access requests ; and , operational security , for example with regard to work data being taken home by employees , and periodic data protection audits of the computer systems .
27 It is known that changes in temperature or ionic strength alter the average rotation angle between adjacent base pairs in the DNA helix which , in a closed-circular DNA , leads to a change in the superhelical density ( 20 ) .
28 When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police .
29 Before this , she was a professional assistant for the London Borough of Ealing , responsible for major building projects including the Ealing College of Higher Education , now Thames Valley University , a new primary school and a special school .
30 where they 're putting forward a recommendation for a number of minor and major building projects within the capital guidelines and those are set out in appendix er appendices five and six .
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