Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 2 | At present the use of colonic motility tests in clinical practice is limited and will remain so until normal ranges for colonic pressures can be defined and more effective treatments for the various motility disorders identified . |
| 3 | British Bio-technology , which employs 70 drug researchers with PhDs , could be valued at up to £200 million . |
| 4 | The commemoration ( now annual ) involved the setting up of over fifty camp sites in the Dorset countryside , complete with tents and catering services . |
| 5 | His judgment was called into question earlier this year when he sang on a chat show just hours after an IRA bomb killed eight building workers in Co Tyrone . |
| 6 | Those countries that are not self sufficient , who ca n't afford to have erm , er , expensive agricultural support policies in place . |
| 7 | Agreement on agricultural support measures for 1990-91 |
| 8 | The main issues outstanding were : ( i ) the reorganization of the national finances and the respective allocations to Flanders and Wallonia ; ( ii ) voting rights for French-speakers living in the Flemish suburbs around Brussels ; ( iii ) the reorganization of agricultural support mechanisms along regional lines ; and ( iv ) the allocation of seats to the European Parliament . |
| 9 | Galluim Arsenide fets processed with a special surface deposition exhibit indeterminate switch-on thresholds at low frequencies but work like normal transistors at higher frequencies . |
| 10 | This year , the company has brought out an enhanced system of Plexicushion , the Plexicushion Prestige , a new and innovative development which sees the use of more resilient base coats beneath the conventional Plexipave system . |
| 11 | The pungent AOR rockisms of ‘ Alive And Kicking ’ , the clod-footed thump of ‘ Sanctify Yourself ’ and the messiness of ‘ All The Things She Said ’ , coupled with wilfully obtuse witterings by Jim Kerr , will still wind up anyone who marvelled at the loneliness at the centre of ‘ Someone , Somewhere In Summertime ’ or the wistful catchiness of ‘ Promised You A Miracle ’ , the Euro-disco made flesh on ‘ The American ’ or even the neon womb-glow of the recent ‘ See The Lights ’ . |
| 12 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 13 | Legal & General will cover your Contents against accidental loss or damage whilst in transit between your Home and your new permanent residence within Great Britain , Northern Ireland , Isle of Man or the Channel Islands by professional removal contractors including temporary storage of up to three days , except for : |
| 14 | An essential inheritance hierarchy to indicate the inheritance of properties ( attributes ) automatically by lower level objects from higher ones through ‘ isA ’ relationships . |
| 15 | The lower level components of textual divisions are parameterized by means of another mechanism which characterizes the whole TEI scheme : the use of parameter entities which are specified by the particular base in use . |
| 16 | HWIM and Hearsay-II segment the input and then try to fit the lower level hypotheses into predefined sequences . |
| 17 | Proportions of workers having good mental health persistently decreased from higher to lower level occupations for each of three educational categories separately . |
| 18 | It follows , therefore , to a certain extent that initiative and creativity are not very important characteristics for lower level managers in this organisation . |
| 19 | Thus suggestions are initiated from the top which are then presented in detail by lower level employees in order to make acceptance of their consequences a less troublesome process . |
| 20 | CAM has regional co-ordination officers in Aberdeen , Leeds , Birmingham , Liverpool , Bristol , Manchester , Newcastle , Edinburgh , Glasgow and Northern Ireland whose aims are to : |
| 21 | It called for the development of solar rural electrification programmes in the South , particularly Africa , and for the expansion of solar power in the Middle East , as a means of preventing possible conflict over water resources for hydro-electric power between Israel and her Arab neighbours or Turkey and Iraq . |
| 22 | There are plenty of lower protection sunscreens on the market , but dermatologists stress that these should be avoided in order to minimise the risk of skin cancer and ageing — regardless of natural skin colour . |
| 23 | In addition , although LC persist in epidermis for extended periods , LC are induced to migrate from skin to regional lymph nodes after antigen exposure . |
| 24 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 25 | This however is unlikely , and that the idea of decorating a metope with a figured scene goes back to the beginning of the Doric order is shown by the painted terracotta examples of the seventh century ( above , p. 13 ) . |
| 26 | Painted terracotta decorations for architecture are found in all areas of Greece in the archaic period and later ; figure-work too , but that is far commoner in the west than in the rest of Greece and reaches its acme in Etruria . |
| 27 | In unemployment , total income receipts in period t net of search costs , and . |
| 28 | QUEENS Moat Houses and Holiday Inn Worldwide , the Bass hotels subsidiary , have agreed to convert an initial eight QMH hotels to the Holiday Inn brand — four in the UK and four on the continent , they announced yesterday . |
| 29 | Collectively these various banking centres make the ECM one of the largest money markets in the world . |
| 30 | Professional personnel specialists from the industry have been asked to comment on the questionnaire to ensure the survey is asking the right questions . |