Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a helmet bearing a marking applied by the manufacturer indicating compliance with the specification contained in one of the British Standards mentioned in Schedule 2 ( whether or not as modified by any amendment ) ; or |
| 2 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 3 | And I rang that on and off right to ten to four and they were n't in . |
| 4 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 5 | Some observers went further and criticised him for seemingly assuming that progress from civil through political to social rights has been a painless historical process . |
| 6 | In retrospect , the ref should have blown for full-time at this point . |
| 7 | Polished thin section surfaces are required , and a special microscope with UV source and quartz lenses is needed , such as used for immunological work in many biological laboratories . |
| 8 | They 've had nothing to do with each other for damn near twenty years . |
| 9 | Giardia lamblia produces a wide spectrum of infection in man ranging from asymptomatic carriage through acute to persistent diarrhoea with intestinal malabsorption . |
| 10 | Yeah we 're about due for another flood . |
| 11 | one was because they er wanted you for four years for definite after that working in evaluation so basically you 're committing yourself for five years |
| 12 | The seat had become vacant upon the death on May 27 of Eric Heffer [ see p. 38200 ] , who had held the seat for Labour since 1964 [ see p. 38200 ] and had won 64.2 per cent of the vote at the 1987 election . |
| 13 | AN IMPASSIONED appeal for Labour to back electoral reform was made by a leading Shadow Cabinet member yesterday after the national executive decided overwhelmingly to oppose a proportional representation motion . |
| 14 | During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ . |
| 15 | In 1990 , the hon. Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) , who leads for Labour on overseas development , said : ’ I want to see Britain reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 16 | As Reg Underhill , he carried out the key role of national agent for Labour from 1972 to 1979 . |
| 17 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 18 | Jenny Salaman ( Mrs Manson ) was a P. P. C. for Labour in 1987 and is active in her local Labour Party . |
| 19 | In the 1970 election the Tories received the votes of 33.2 per cent of the electorate ( as against 36.4 per cent for Labour in 1966 ) , and although this was enough to give them a safe parliamentary majority , it did not reflect massive and determined popular support for the ‘ Selsdon ’ programme of trade union reform plus ‘ rolling back of the frontiers of government ’ ( the promised direct tax cuts were popular , but that does not prove much ) . |
| 20 | Apart from the influence of many young voters who have no memory of what it was like to live under a Labour government , the biggest thing going for Labour in this election is an Englishman 's sense of fair play . |
| 21 | Tim Devlin waves the lone Tory flag in the county following Ashok Kumar 's November by-election win for Labour in nearby Langbaurgh but for how much longer ? |
| 22 | At top of field turn right on cross-track ( VW waymark ) , and after 100 yds turn left through right-hand of two fields alongside fence on left . |
| 23 | Now there is a wide open structural trap here for all the participants , including teacher , for inherent in this scene is the assumption that it is leading to a decision — and decision-making , as every chess player and bridge player knows , is an important element of the game . |
| 24 | MATURITY-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP FOR CARBONIFEROUS IN SOUTHERN NORTH SEA BASIN |
| 25 | With nothing to do but wait , Trent had agreed to act as sail-master on one of Belpan 's sand lighters in the regular Sunday race meeting . |
| 26 | You ca n't get anything for free in this world . |
| 27 | Got to watch out for damp in these old places . ’ |
| 28 | In particular , the London owners saw their position as different from those of other ports and remained indifferent to the idea of a nationwide employers ' organization devoted to stemming the rising tide of trade unionism among seamen , and without London support any such project was unlikely to succeed . |
| 29 | I think we ought to be looking at ways of encouraging innovative developments in the range of services for those people who fall between long-stay in patient medical care and unsupported family care . |
| 30 | However , the conceptual oppositions which structure Western philosophical thought , such as sensible v. intelligible , form v. content all imply that ideas , and indeed content of any kind , exist independently of the medium in which they are formulated : the word ‘ medium ’ itself conveys the secondary status that language is given in these conceptual oppositions , always de fined as a vehicle or an instrument of something separate from it which governs it from without . |