Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is the complexity and sophistication of modern weapons systems themselves : each containing a sufficient number of different component technologies to ensure that progress , by and large , remains incremental rather than revolutionary . |
| 2 | Their basement apartment cost more than she could afford , but at least she felt at home in Chelsea . |
| 3 | You must have LIFESPAN Create User privilege to use this option . |
| 4 | Elite performers earn that title because they are , by nature , not good losers . |
| 5 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 6 | 1994 will present the British Government with a crucial negotiating opportunity to negotiate this discrimination . |
| 7 | The ISS curriculum proposals aroused less controversy in ILEA than those of TNC in part because of the very different curriculum philosophy within which the proposals for the fourth and fifth years were set . |
| 8 | Someone to stop all this weak kneed nancy pancying pussy footing soft balls hard luck Jim have another large scotch . |
| 9 | The chart framework permits any of these strategies to be implemented . |
| 10 | FIG. 2 Results of gel retardation assays using several of the mutant MetJ repressors . |
| 11 | The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches . |
| 12 | Two men who ran Britain 's biggest ecstasy smuggling gang have each been jailed for twenty four years at Maidstone Crown Court . |
| 13 | ‘ If a patient is old , say over 65 , their cholesterol level makes little difference to their life expectancy . |
| 14 | Many thousands more who do not get income support receive some help towards their rent and/or community charge . |
| 15 | There was no doubt a certain amount of wishful thinking in these common beliefs that gang fights represented some kind of scaled-down patriotism , but Britain 's military preoccupations were never too far out of sight when Hooliganism was on the agenda , involving reversals such as these on the Hooligan 's worth and character . |
| 16 | Relatives ' support groups have such a full agenda that they may become almost swamped by shared suffering unless they have a facilitator who can help ease the ‘ tension upon tension ’ one group member described . |
| 17 | But there is a cost to that training , a large cost , and to some extent the allocation of public funding money offsets that cost . |
| 18 | Once the working party had drawn up a schedule of accommodation , illustrated above , it then fell to medical and nursing officers within SHHD , and CSABD , together with colleagues from SDD Building Directorate to work this schedule up into a detailed design guidance . |
| 19 | The publication in 1969 of the Persepolis Fortification Tablets makes all this intelligible : the tablets record payments of large quantities of food — grain , sheep and so forth — to Persian grandees like ‘ Parnaka ’ , the Pharnakes who is named by Herodotus ( e.g. viii.126 ) . |
| 20 | The wave function contains all the information about the possible values of the dynamical variables and allows these variables to be calculated in a statistical way ; it gives only probabilities that the variables will have certain values . |
| 21 | An inositol depletion hypothesis attempts to explain this effect of Li + on the basis that it inhibits inositol phosphate metabolism , so preventing the regeneration of free inositol . |
| 22 | Goran Persson of the Swedish Environment Protection Board says such ‘ acidification … was not even considered conceivable ’ in the 1970s . |
| 23 | I can confirm that there is no SNP Member of Parliament present to hear this debate today . |
| 24 | Goldstar Information & Communications Ltd , Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd , Maxon Electronics Co Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co have each signed agreements with Qualcomm Inc , San Diego for joint development of cellular telephone subscriber and infrastructure equipment based on Code Division Multiple Access technology for Korea ; the four will pay Qualcomm non-refundable preliminary fees totalling about $5m to be applied against part of their future licence fees . |
| 25 | The voyage out was a lengthy one via the Cape of Good Hope , and by his own admission Stirling spent most of it in his cabin gambling at cards . |
| 26 | As you board any European airline shuttle you may see cabin crew hurriedly moving the cabin dividers to make more seats available in business class , knowing that greater profits can be made from this sector . |
| 27 | Greenfield attempts to avoid this by claiming to test for ‘ abstractness ’ . |
| 28 | Not all selected settlement policies propose such a stark categorization of villages . |
| 29 | Trevor and Lucy Blake were slightly unusual parents , although it was years before Alan and his sister Pamela realized this . |
| 30 | Concerned organisations are continuing their lobbying activities to have these animals included in the legislation . |