Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no simple division between left and right , and little evidence to support the easy sneer that those supporting military action by a Democratic president would have opposed it by a Republican one : the Nation , the country 's leading magazine of the left , is dead against intervention . |
| 2 | If medical expenses are being claimed , the estimate should include a provision for these and also any medical fees we may incur e.g. a PMA report or Additional Certificate of Medical Attendant . |
| 3 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 4 | Losses of £500m for 1988 and over £2 billion for 1989 have already depleted free assets , especially for the 5,000-odd names on excess-of-loss syndicates . |
| 5 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
| 6 | From the touch sensitive computer panel you can pre-set your sauna to automatically start the next day , and you can choose from a selection of five climate temperatures , you also have the added luxury of an AM/FM radio to listen to , there 's a digital clock and heater and there 's container system to add fresh herbs for richer and more exciting steam . |
| 7 | The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs . |
| 8 | Almost all the variations and hybrids retain that primrose charm , only the modern F1 seed strains have lost their elegance in the foolish search for larger and more garish flowers . |
| 9 | While the government was willing to set aside very limited funds for specialised and principally in-service training , it rejected a £40 million proposal from CCETSW to replace the two-year Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ( CQSW ) with a three-year programme leading to the award of the Qualifying Diploma in Social Work . |
| 10 | The rumoured deal between NeXT and either Compaq or Dell that first broke last January ( UX No 368 ) has so far failed to materialise : observers claim it 's because Steve Jobs is demanding a big down payment from both firms even though he intends to shrinkwrap NeXTstep-on-Intel . |
| 11 | The printers have been designed to reflect Hewlett-Packard 's ‘ anywhere to anywhere ’ print strategy , which aims to accommodate the complexities of heterogeneous computing environments while keeping pace with users ' demands for speedier and more advanced printers . |
| 12 | A little further down the line , we are introduced to hard disc recording , intent on replacing tape for good and just beginning to enter the field of the home user in terms of price . |
| 13 | But this organisation makes it a permanent pleasure for blind and partially sighted people . ’ |
| 14 | This afternoon provides the chance for the side Geoff Cooke has assembled to put the record straight with one last hurrah before retirement claims Winterbottom , Underwood , Dooley and Halliday for certain and possibly Webb too . |
| 15 | Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings . |
| 16 | Instead people invest their savings in sterile assets , e.g. gold and jewellery , which retards economic development and results in foreign exchange losses through legal and often illegal gold imports . |
| 17 | And as Stavrogin describes his search after new and ever stronger and more bizarre sensations , and as he laments his boredom , and as suicide is touched on , tracts of Crime and Punishment open up again : but without the astral , feathering humour of America , anatomy , and ordinary ghosts . |
| 18 | This suggests that the police are most likely to interpret an event as rape where it shares some of the characteristics of familiar and conspicuously criminal activity . |
| 19 | Throughout the Ottoman world , centuries of arbitrary and frequently oppressive rule reinforced age-old peasant tendencies towards looking to the clan as the mainstay of life and regarding everybody outside with suspicion and hostility . |
| 20 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 21 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 22 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 23 | It will be remembered for contemporary art 's declining audience , with many exhibitions attracting very little interest , and for the closure of noted and less established galleries . |
| 24 | In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors . |
| 25 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |
| 26 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 27 | Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 29 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , areas to the west of London were encountering severe shortages of skilled and even unskilled labour by the mid-1980s , a time of real and substantial unemployment in the older industrialized regions . |