Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Later on the manager decided that , in recognition of the outstanding and unsung work that embalmers do , he had overcharged them and sent the porter upstairs with a £5 refund for them .
2 Corbett leaned over and gripped the porter tightly by the shoulder .
3 Wilkinson 's failure to strengthen the defence especially at the centre back position ( and right back through most of last year ) will continue to hinder the team and deny us a claim of genuine championship contenders .
4 South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval .
5 ( With field coding , the interviewer asks an open question but codes the response immediately from a checklist not shown to the respondent . )
6 In the Nusseirat refugee camp soldiers shot Yasser al-Majdalawi , 23 , in the chest after dusk as Muslims broke the daytime fast for the holy month of Ramadan , Palestinians said .
7 Despite the end of the Cold War , military alliances seem likely to continue in some form — the Gulf War demonstrated the inability even of the United States to fund a medium-scale war unaided , and illustrated , again , the limitations to state autonomy .
8 Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands .
9 An additional initiative available is to advertise the opportunity either in the Financial Times or on the Accountants Business Network ( ‘ ABN ’ ) .
10 The net result is that the Scottish Office and the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland are trying hard to get the message across — tackle the forms immediately with the 15 May deadline in mind .
11 Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ?
12 The statutory assignment has the advantage of enabling the purchaser to enforce the contracts directly against the supplier rather than through the vendor .
13 A chimney led from the side of the boiler away to the end of the shed .
14 His first sketches of the Garratt articulated locomotive show that he appreciated the advantages of mounting the boiler centrally between a pair of driving bogies carrying the fuel and water tanks .
15 Pegasus have won the shield twice in the last three years and will now play for the White Cup in the All Ireland play-offs late next month .
16 The potential volatility of the markets and the multiplication of risk through gearing coupled with the complexity both of the transactions themselves and market procedures , mean that investors , particularly those with little experience , can be placed at considerable risk in the futures markets .
17 There are strong , practical arguments for the link today for the trades unions trades union involvement in the Party ensures that trades union interests are represented in parliament .
18 The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly .
19 With the velocity , as long as it stays up there , it 's travelling in the direction away from the starting line .
20 So they 're carrying out the checks initially on the the capabilities and the financial soundness of the , of the proposed supplier .
21 The battle between the Prime Minister , the split indeed between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor which is a re-run of the appalling split between her and Nigel Lawson which is the origins of our present problem , is something that must be brought under control .
22 Others regard the orang simply as a large relative of the gibbons , who , it is often forgotten , are also apes .
23 TELEPHONE giant BT caught the City on the hop yesterday with a sweet £1bn deal in the US .
24 The court did , however , renew the validity of the writ for a period of four months , notwithstanding the expiry both of the writ and the limitation period , to allow alternative means of service to be used .
25 AIDS must have been exceedingly rare before the mid-1970s anywhere in the world .
26 When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field .
27 The Soviet Defence Minister , Dmitri Yazov , visits the Pentagon today for a meeting with the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney .
28 A gate onto the ice was opened and we all began the trek across to the ‘ royal box ’ on the opposite side .
29 There was a general atmosphere of despondence after the euphoria earlier in the year .
30 Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County .
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