Example sentences of "a [adj] chain [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were called the chordates , and started a momentous chain of evolutionary events . |
| 2 | It is the form assumed by a hanging chain under a uniformly distributed load , UDL . |
| 3 | Her gown was low cut , exposing creamy shoulders and the shadow between her breasts , and there was a slim chain about her white neck from which a single gem hung like a firelit star . |
| 4 | They are united into a longitudinal chain by a pair of connectives which issue from the posterior border of the suboesophageal ganglion . |
| 5 | So , as Le patourel commented , ‘ with a seneschal , an official council , sub-seneschals , a constable , receivers , and judges , a clear chain of command and a workable distribution of duties , the ducal government seemed competent to deal with anything short of an overwhelming emergency ’ . |
| 6 | Authority in a modern bureaucracy is hierarchical , running in a direct chain of command from superordinate to subordinate . |
| 7 | Ask a grown-up to attach a hooked chain to the centre top bar . |
| 8 | Its officers , ‘ political deputies ’ , posted down to battalion or company level , constitute a separate chain of command , supplying personnel evaluations on a confidential basis to their political superiors . |
| 9 | A similar chain of reasoning applies to the real-balance effect . |
| 10 | A vast chain of bank intermediaries thus links the suppliers and users of ECM funds . |
| 11 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 12 | As a case in point , Mr Foulds cites — perhaps optimistically — its £200m , so far unprofitable , investment in building a national chain of estate agents . |
| 13 | On 23 August 1989 , the 50th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet pact , an estimated two million Balts formed a human chain across the three republics in the biggest demonstration that had yet been seen . |
| 14 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 15 | As they shored up the ceiling with wooden planks , the cleared rubble was passed in buckets along a human chain of miners in the underground roadway . |
| 16 | Behind GIGN was a human chain of exhausted teams . |
| 17 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 18 | To his left were three NYPD police cars , parked bumper to bumper , and behind them a human chain of police officers , all armed with handguns and rifles . |
| 19 | Lithuanians cherish their Baltic coastline — in 1988 they joined hands with Latvians and Estonians to form a human chain along its full length to protest against pollution . |
| 20 | Thousands of women formed a human chain along the route to Nicocea , where the opening ceremony was held , to protest against the Turkish occupation against the North of the island . |
| 21 | The going seems better for Philip Ames , a chirpy Lancastrian , who is also expanding a retail chain at a time when so many others are either shrinking or going bust . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've got expensive computer systems and expensive professionals on board that can cope with a large chain of shops . |
| 23 | Obviously , if there are many short-leasehold properties and none is significant for the carrying on of the business , as in the case of a large chain of small retail outlets , then no investigation would normally be made . |
| 24 | Now it 's been extended to Waitrose , which are a large chain in the south of England . |
| 25 | Ever since Conran converted a struggling furniture-manufacturing business into a unique chain of retail shops called Habitat and set in motion a high-street revolution , good design has been at the core of everything he has done . |
| 26 | We would also point out that prior to the seventeenth-century scientific revolution the universe was seen , by European men , as a great chain of being , connected rather than atomistic , necessarily related to humanity , rather than being a ‘ neutral domain of facts , of contingently correlated elements , the tracing of whose correlations will enable greater and greater manipulation and control of the world ’ ( Taylor , 1985 , p. 134 ) . |
| 27 | For much of the eighteenth century , the old belief endured that everything was organized into a great chain of being , linking minerals , plants , animals and men ( and perhaps angels ) . |
| 28 | He fully accepted the interpretation of fossils which had recently been put forward by Lyell and also the general interrelation of species in a Great Chain of Being . |
| 29 | Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them . |
| 30 | ‘ And Ah saw an angel come down from Heaven , havin' the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand . |