Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a speech to President Suharto and ministers he added : ‘ At times nations are tempted to disregard fundamental human rights in a misguided search for political unity based on military or economic power alone . |
| 2 | In view of the hostile Chinese reaction to Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten 's blueprint for political reform outlined in early October [ see p. 39143 ] , there was during November a serious deterioration in relations between the Chinese government on the one hand and the United Kingdom and Hong Kong governments on the other . |
| 3 | The concentration of solubilised NANA in gastric juice was obtained by the difference between total NANA measured after acidic hydrolysis ( H 2 SO 4 0.1 N , 80°C , 60 min ) and free NANA measured directly as µg/ml . |
| 4 | Ocalan was reported to remained strongly in disagreement with the demands for regional autonomy made by Iraqi Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Mazoud Barzani [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 5 | Indeed , Conservative spokesmen , and particularly Baldwin , called for economic recovery based upon industrial peace , national unity and class harmony . |
| 6 | I did find one recipe , for stuffed heart served with boiled rice and wedges of lemon , but it did n't sound very inviting . |
| 7 | The change in definition does , however , affect the treatment of local authority expenditure ; the old definition included all local authority expenditure , whereas the new definition covers only the support for this expenditure provided by central government , i.e. it excludes expenditure which local authorities finance themselves . |
| 8 | Table 6 from their ‘ 1989 Based Population Projections for the Counties and District Health Authorities of Wales shows the projected net population change for this period split into various phases . |
| 9 | One might answer in this case that it is also a typical feature of speech , so should probably be analysed as a contraction and for this reason avoided in academic writing — even if one accepts the idea of a regional/class standard . |
| 10 | We went from city to city , from bush town to bush town , civic reception after civic reception given by local mayors with chains around their necks , musical welcomes with God Save the King and For They Are Jolly Good Fellows , and Plum Warner uttering platitude after platitude about the ideals of cricket and British fair-play , until the subject became uncomfortable and undiplomatic . |
| 11 | It is common for serious disorder associated with British trade disputes to be referred to as ‘ American-style violence ’ . |
| 12 | Certainly , there are evident differences and they may well sketch one political conjecture for postmodern organization premised on stable private capital formation , production-centred strategies of economic calculation and high degrees of labour market segmentation . |
| 13 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 14 | But the cynical , knowing expression , mingled with the hunger in his eyes , brought her to her senses like a bucket of iced water tossed with ruthless insensitivity on an innocent sleeper . |
| 15 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 16 | Regular quality control seems necessary to achieve high quality CT examinations of testicular cancer performed at radiological units with limited experience in this condition . |
| 17 | Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles . |
| 18 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 19 | Mr Kovac did not elaborate but his statement was in line with Mr Meciar 's oft-declared intention to slow down the pace of economic reform introduced by free market apostle Vaclav Klaus after the collapse of communism . |
| 20 | BRITAIN is heading for a period of economic growth sustained by low rates of interest and inflation . |
| 21 | Differences of economic interest added to Anglo-American diplomatic strains . |
| 22 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 23 | To ensure this impartiality there are stringent restrictions on the degree of political involvement permitted to civil servants . |
| 24 | From this , one might hypothesize that education is important in developing the intellectual skills necessary to absorb and make sense of political material communicated by other media . |
| 25 | Until the early 1960s the effects of rural depopulation , the dilapidation of much rural property and the cost of travel to urban centres all contributed to the lower price of rural housing compared with urban areas . |
| 26 | This phenomenon of STYLE BORROWING has many manifestations in prose : the child language at the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait is an example we have already noted ; others are the style of private correspondence used in epistolary novels such as Pamela ; the racy colloquialism of first-person novels such as The Catcher in the Rye ; the use of stylistic parody and pastiche as exemplified in Ulysses . |
| 27 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 28 | The law on restitution of private property seized under communist rule passed in May 1991 [ see p. 38207 ] specifically ruled out restitution to Sudeten Germans . |
| 29 | Indeed , the term ‘ dramatic statement ’ , to which they become quite attached as the book proceeds , perhaps takes us too firmly in the direction of propositional knowledge translated into dramatic coding . |
| 30 | We said very little — simply worked together , sweating , sniffing , aware of each other bent in crazy service to this marvellous beast she 'd roused . |