Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parcel bombs sent in early 1990 to a retired Army officer in Valencia , to a prosecutor who had investigated the 1987 Barcelona supermarket bombing [ see p. 35851 ] , and to the Interior Minister , José Luis Corcuera , were defused . |
| 2 | For some years in the public sector and just beginning in the university sector , we see academics willing to have their teaching activities subjected to the face-to-face evaluation and commentaries of their peers . |
| 3 | He lit the hurricane lamps set in brass wall-brackets and found a pressure lamp for the dining table . |
| 4 | The report compares UK pesticide policy with pesticide reduction policies adopted in Denmark , Sweden and the Netherlands . |
| 5 | The motility indices obtained from the different recording sites were averaged to obtain only one basal and one postprandial motility index for each patient . |
| 6 | Measurements of colonic pressurss are confounded by pronounced intra and interindividual variation of colonic motility indices depending on factors that are obscure and thus difficult to control . |
| 7 | For the last twenty years , it has used the data provided by the Family Expenditure Surveys to estimate the net benefit which different income groups derive from public expenditure . |
| 8 | Urban planning protects the value of investments in the built environment , highway building fuels demand for motor cars and gasoline , and welfare programmes curb public disorder and smooth out hiccups in demand for business ' products . |
| 9 | Our findings suggest that tumour activity is not a major cause of the lowered serum cholesterol values seen in most of our patients . |
| 10 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 11 | It was also agreed that the options for storage/retrieval of information in the long-term would be examined , based on the FAOR proposals to move towards a filly computerised storage system . |
| 12 | The Chief Fire Officer advises us that the attendance times to the areas I have mentioned are regularly over the response times allowed by the standards of fire cover . |
| 13 | But as soon as Blanco had dummied past a static defence Lions countered with their second try , in first-half injury time . |
| 14 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 15 | Taylor has stipulated that third and fourth division clubs have until the end of the decade to become all-seater , while those in the first and second divisions have just two close seasons . |
| 16 | Grammar exercises ( each preceded by examples and statement of rule ) on various verb forms occurring in the passage . |
| 17 | The proposed gala contained many elements of reunification activities organized by Southern dissidents but banned by the government . |
| 18 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 19 | When next affronted by speculative brick houses aggrandised by wrongly scaled and detailed plastic ‘ classical ’ columns , you might ruminate that the Encyclopaedists got it right . |
| 20 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 21 | 7,000 teargas cans found in car |
| 22 | 7,000 teargas cans found in car |
| 23 | The north and west galleries stretched before her ; every door was shut . |
| 24 | Detailed examination of the assessment forms used for all the bilingual children found that in 75 per cent to 90 per cent of cases , no special account was taken of the child 's bilingual and cultural background . |
| 25 | Examination of the assessment forms used for all the bilingual children found that in 75 per cent to 90 per cent of cases , no special account was taken of the child 's bilingual and cultural background . |
| 26 | I believe the present system could be improved and would be grateful for any examples of assessment forms used by practitioners in similar areas . |
| 27 | Savings disappeared , mortgage payments could no longer be kept up , purchases made on instalment plans had to be returned . |
| 28 | Wabi translates function calls made by Windows applications into those recognisable by X-Windows . |
| 29 | Wabi translates function calls made by Windows applications into those recognisable by X Window . |
| 30 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |