Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 2 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 3 | First , their ‘ basic ’ economic function is supplemented by a major role in economic restructuring . |
| 4 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 5 | ‘ A file will in due course be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 6 | The genetically modified saplings will in due course be infected with the virus to test their resistance . |
| 7 | Only environmentally friendly products were used by the students . |
| 8 | In RENFE , by contrast , political manoeuvring was internalized within the organization , so that the management process itself was politicized . |
| 9 | The supreme example of spiny defence is shown by the porcupine fish , a small inflatable creature that can puff itself up into a prickly sphere , either with an intake of water when under the surface , or with air when it has been caught and removed from the sea . |
| 10 | In that country for many years organisation at the social , cultural and political level was founded upon a system of ideological blocs . |
| 11 | Non-specific bFGF binding was estimated by incubating tissue samples to which 1 µg of non-labelled bFGF was added before the addition of [ I ] bFGF . |
| 12 | The Social Affairs and Labour Ministry was split into a new Labour Ministry under former Minister of State for Defence , Brig. |
| 13 | The single-storey building is designed in an oval with a church in the centre , rather like a traditional African village where the chief 's house would be in the middle . |
| 14 | The oral shield is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 15 | The oral shield is rounded with a distinct distal lobe . |
| 16 | The oral shield is rounded with an acute proximal angle , it is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 17 | The oral shield is rounded with an acute proximal angle . |
| 18 | HISTORIC change is heralded by the start of the new Flat season at Doncaster today . |
| 19 | Auditory deprivation studies suggest that deaf people will have problems in speech and auditory processing even though auditory experience is reinstated by the use of hearing aids . |
| 20 | You felt that if the right component was put into the equation it could help tackle them all . ’ |
| 21 | Many of the grandest names in European gunmaking are represented including the so-called ‘ Meister der Tierkopfranke ’ , Armand Bongarde of Düsseldorf , Hieronymous Borstorffer of Munich , Moritz of Kassel , Desgranges of Paris , Philippe de Sellier of Liège , and Jan Flock of Utrecht . |
| 22 | Despite the absence of Giggs , whose precocious talents were required by the senior side in their 1–0 Rumbelows Cup victory at Wembley on Sunday , the visitors confirmed their pre-match billing as favourites and demonstrated their ominous strength in depth . |
| 23 | But the political field is inscribed with the logic of friend and foe . |
| 24 | The plaintiff was allowed to sue a second defendant , whose possible liability was revealed in the report more than three years after the accident . |
| 25 | This was an area planted by Maria Theresa with Swabians , and their Teutonic orderliness was stamped on the villages and homesteads enclosed by ornate wooden gateways . |
| 26 | The duration of palliative response was measured from the time that the response was first observed until a significantly lower score was obtained on two successive measurements . |
| 27 | So we must begin with the context , the 600,000 square miles of suffering that is the pock-marked face of the North-East , where cloying fields of sugar cane rot amidst hunger and disease , where authoritarian landlords compete for power with anarchistic bandits , and rural labourers are bound to a semi-feudal plantation economy in a state of perpetual anxiety . |
| 28 | ( B ) The free and complexed DNA fragment populations were separated by electrophoresis through a 5% native polyacrylamide gel ( 8 ) ; the gel was then immersed and equilibrated into a buffer-containing plastic tray , and the retarded ( SC = specific complex , NSC = non-specific complex ) and unretarded ( F = free ) DNA species were exposed in situ to mild modification with DMS ( representative methylations are indicated by the black arrowheads ) . |
| 29 | The technical field being considered for the full proposal is inertial navigation technology . |
| 30 | farther east on the southern frontier , the wars against the Buryats caused great turmoil up to the end of the seventeenth century , when the back-and-forth migrations of Buryat and Mongol clans was brought to an end by the closing of the frontier between the Russian Empire and Chinese ‘ Outer Mongolia ’ . |