Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A recent example of how plans have come unstuck is the fate of the Japan-backed ASEAN plan for automobile components , where Indonesia 's intransigency has put plans for regional specialisation back on the drawing board . |
2 | Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive . |
3 | The purpose of the surveys is to expose consensus and conflicts about popular values for green spaces close to the city . |
4 | Thus it is possible that , as a result of letting out contracts for individual services possibly to different suppliers , the aggregate cost of the individual contracts ( each of which would have to be independently viable ) will exceed the combined cost of the original integrated services . |
5 | Standard forms of tender , nomination and contracts for nominated subcontractors together with detailed provisions for dealing with fluctuations under both the main and subcontracts are published separately . |
6 | With the cold winter evenings ahead why not try out some of these differing styles as alternative self-portraits instead of trying on the Euromask ? |
7 | Since then WWF-UK has developed under his leadership into one of the country 's most effective and powerful conservation groups , raising funds for environmental protection both in Britain and abroad . |
8 | In addition there are well-developed opportunities for interdisciplinary study particularly in the areas of European Institutions and Government , in Legal Theory , Criminology , and Socio-legal studies . |
9 | Motorists with any disability can go along to the Transport and Road Research Laboratory ( TRRL ) at Crowthorne in Berkshire , to look at and test drive the latest production cars and see the widest range of adaptations for disabled drivers anywhere in the UK . |
10 | To make a profit , drug dealers sell you short measures or mix all sorts of dangerous materials in with drugs to give them a bigger share of the profits or to finance their own drug habits . |
11 | cos I said , oh we 're having all sorts of different cuttings off from |
12 | Closer contacts between education and places of work through Work Experience , visits to schools , etc. , are the best way of ensuring that employers value the skills and aptitudes of young people regardless of gender , race or disability . |
13 | Edward pushed forward the bounds of secular authority usually in reaction to some clerical move or in defence of the needs and customs of royal government ; but as much as by the king this boundary was advanced by his subjects , whether suing for their individual rights and interests through the king 's courts or acting as royal justices , and not a few of these aggressive subjects were in fact clergy themselves . |
14 | To measure the effect on general practitioner referrals for radiography of introducing guidelines of good practice together with monitoring and peer review . |
15 | A wide range of factors shaped how people aligned themselves politically — from personal considerations or considerations of economic self-interest through to political or religious conviction — and the way these factors interrelated could differ over time to produce shifting patterns of popular allegiance . |
16 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
17 | The preservation of laminated biogenic sediments is currently understood to be the result of inhibition of benthos by low concentrations of dissolved oxygen either in anoxic silled basins ( such as the Black Sea or California Borderland Basins ) , or beneath zones of strong upwelling , where an oxygen minimum layer intersects the shelf or slope ( such as off Peru or within the Gulf of California ) . |
18 | For the size of the island , Madeira must have one of the highest concentrations of five-star hotels anywhere in the world . |
19 | Dowland 's Danish patron , Christian IV , sent musicians to study in Italy and two Danes , Hans Nielsen ( c. 1580–after 1620 ) and Mogens Pedersen ( c. 1585–1623 ) , worked in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli and published books of five-part madrigals there in 1606 and 1608 . |
20 | When the tides of magic flow strongly from the broken warp gate the Realm of Chaos expands , the Northern Wastes are swallowed up , and the armies of Chaos pour down through the Troll Country into Kislev and the Empire . |
21 | Pushing open the heavy door , she began to climb the stairs to the second floor , admiring the way in which the stained-glass windows on each hall-landing cast triangles of coloured light on to the worn stone steps . |
22 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
23 | Manlius Vulso a speech in 189 B.C. in which , to encourage in the Roman legionaries a contempt for the Galatians , he finds traces of Celtic barbarism even in Massalia : " Massilia inter Gallos sita , traxit aliquantum ab accolis animorum " ( 38.17.11 ) . |
24 | After all these months of forward movement only to be expected . |
25 | If they are selected they have 37 months of rigorous training ahead of them . ’ |
26 | In the third year , students spend a total of eight months of approved study abroad in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries . |
27 | If general opinion favours Lothar , and if you are in a position of influence with him , please do n't forget us , and drive the wicked designs of bad men away from us , as far as you can . " |
28 | We have WS & C offices with trained staffs all over the Continent . |
29 | If subjects are given a list of words , words with serial positions early in the list are more likely to be recalled than those further towards the middle of the list . |
30 | For subjects given a list of words , when recall is immediate words with serial positions late in the list are more likely to be recalled than when recall is delayed . |