Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 2 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 3 | When the Poles finally repulsed the Russian counter-attack , they sponsored an independent bourgeois republic , which in due course was recognized by Moscow . |
| 4 | The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 5 | Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen . |
| 6 | These may shape the activities of unions , so that their political manoeuvring is based on clientelist relationships , rather than class relationships . |
| 7 | IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships . |
| 8 | Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey . |
| 9 | A unit-linked endowment is linked to units in a fund of stocks and shares . |
| 10 | The same low rating was given to standards by academics who rated research at 80% . |
| 11 | This pleasant perk was gained from Zev Bufman because the Broadway company had not been given Dustin 's permission to use certain material on him in the programme . |
| 12 | The Inland Revenue Technical Division were asked in correspondence whether they adhered to this view where the income in question was paid to a beneficiary who was neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or , alternatively , where foreign source income was concerned , was paid outside the United Kingdom to a beneficiary who was not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | Amongst the employed families living on the Mount Pleasant Estate , 51.2 per cent of their total income was claimed by rent and ‘ other necessary expenditure ’ ; in unemployed families the figure rose to 60.6 per cent . |
| 14 | The first dated coin was issued by Valdemar II of Denmark in 1234 , but this is an isolated and untypical example , and dates became a frequent part of the design only from the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | His strong defence was supported by authority members , convened in a small working party to investigate the allegations . |
| 16 | However , attached lean-to garages are treated as home extensions , and must have full Building Regulations approval , especially as far as fire precautions are concerned . |
| 17 | Government and legal — administrative institutions are moulded in forms which optimally sustain capital accumulation , whether or not the state is directly controlled by capitalists and irrespective of the precise balance of class forces . |
| 18 | Inheritance For those people who have accumulated assets during their lifetime , leaving money , property and land to relatives after death represents another — and very significant — mechanism through which economic support is given in families . |
| 19 | The interim award was won by Bishopsgate Investment Management , which ran the Mirror Group scheme and is seeking to recover the missing millions . |
| 20 | The Kaiser and von Werner disagreed ; only mainstream artists were exhibited in St Louis ; and von Tschudi was replaced at the National Gallery by the ubiquitous Von Werner . |
| 21 | Submissions for the European award are based on self-appraisal , whereby a company carries out a systematic review and measurement of its operations . |
| 22 | Makerere University was closed on Nov. 10 , 1989 , after 7,000 students defied a government instruction to end a 12-day strike over allowances for books and travel . |
| 23 | In six of the LEAs introductory meetings were held with representatives from all three schools present . |
| 24 | The Korean armistice was signed in July 1953 ; the first Soviet hydrogen bomb was tested in August ; the RAF received its first British atomic bombs into service with the V Force in November ; and at the turn of the year , Foster Dulles announced the United States ' twin policies of ‘ massive nuclear retaliation and the containment of the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 25 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 26 | Tony came back and handed her a tall glass of iced Pimm 's filled with fruit , then flopped on to the sun-lounger beside her , smiling in his uncomplicated way . |
| 27 | In 1992 total exports were valued at £1,991 million . |
| 28 | Restriction digests of atk coding segments in patients A and B. The normal Taq I digest products , in each case , are shown in lanes 1 and 8 , respectively , and uncleaved normal products are shown in lanes 4 and 5 , respectively . |
| 29 | The city council has still not published an official notice telling the traders of the changes more than SIX months after the controversial decision was approved by councillors . |
| 30 | The introduction of the five-point try was announced in Wellington , New Zealand , yesterday by rugby union 's International Board , which has made a series of sweeping rule changes in an attempt to quicken the flow and generally brighten up the game . |