Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , we conclude from this experiment that deletions of the promoter regions ( -2.3kb to -300bp ) which contain neuronal-specific hypersensitive sites either have no effect or appear to increase rather than decrease expression in HeLa cells . |
| 2 | During his impromptu press conference at Kennebunkport on July 12 , Bush also referred to the " October Surprise " scandal , the allegation that members of the Reagan-Bush 1980 presidential election campaign met with Iranian representatives in Paris in order to promise arms sales to Iran in return for the Iranian government 's agreement not to free 52 US hostages held in Teheran until after the November 1980 presidential election . |
| 3 | Both of them could attribute their popularity to the fact that in the old days , when opening hours were not so well controlled , they stayed open longer than others , with the result that patrons of The Cock and The Bull were usually the most tipsy . |
| 4 | If you do not like what happens at a school , you should discuss it with the headmaster , but bear in mind that teachers at a boarding school are acting much more in loco parentis than at a day school and may feel that very firm action is essential . |
| 5 | The tribe fear that tailings from the mine may contaminate local waterways . |
| 6 | It was a clear part of the unions ' pay tactics that groups with a claim to public sympathy , like the health workers , were put in front to establish a going rate . |
| 7 | pehunan refers to a state of extreme vulnerability to dangers of all sorts that results from the frustration of an individual 's wishes ( see Dentan 1968 ; Robarchek 1977b , 1986b ) . |
| 8 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 9 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 10 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | There 's actually a rule that members of the general committee do n't have to pay for meals . |
| 12 | This is reflected in the rule that statements by the accused to be admissible must have been made voluntarily . |
| 13 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 14 | A document entitled the Port of Spain Consensus was released , which identified the need for ( i ) education and training ; ( ii ) preservation of the environment and the development of human resources ; ( iii ) fostering of democratic traditions and processes ; ( iv ) regional economic integration and co-operation ; and ( v ) research and development , particularly in science and technology , with a recommendation that governments in the region should allocate 1 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to research and development over five years . |
| 15 | It was a sharp reminder of Real 's expectations after their latest failure to win the European Cup , the only trophy that matters to the Spanish champions . |
| 16 | Indeed , the innovation opportunities that changes in the numbers of people and their age distribution , education , occupations , and geographic location make possible are among the most rewarding and least risky of entrepreneurial pursuits . |
| 17 | Simeon 's ‘ Wait for the wind that chills towards the dead land ’ recalls ‘ The Hollow Men ’ with its ‘ wind in dry grass ’ and ‘ dead land ’ . |
| 18 | A cardigan that buttons to the neck keeps this portion of the anatomy covered , but is easy to unbutton and remove if necessary . |
| 19 | It might be the unexpected death of someone we know , or a mindless crime , or a freak accident , or a hurricane that tears off the roof tiles — any one of these is enough to remind us that total control is a delusion . |
| 20 | The response of Conservatives who followed colonial affairs in Britain was less than friendly to the NLM ; one article asserted : ‘ It is not by breakaway and territorial fragmentation that opponents of a government in power should seek to get their way but by fighting the government as a nation-wide party and finally throwing it out . ’ |
| 21 | One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ . |
| 22 | The Conservative vote is an act of faith that springs from the fear of something worse . |
| 23 | Similarly , it is often the case that knowledge-flows between the users and the producers of an innovation are particularly rich , and , consequently , if particular users interact with several suppliers , then these suppliers are bound to share an enormous amount of common information even in the absence of spillovers between them ( see von Hippel , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | The extra money earned from attending court on a day off can be attractive , but it is more often the case that reminders about the approaching end of the shift are given to those constables who suggest work which involves ‘ going over ’ . |
| 25 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 26 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 27 | By oscillating between the poles of discovery ( objectivity ) and invention ( subjectivity ) he enjoys all the freedom that results from the belief that literature and criticism are akin , while preserving the authority that such a belief subverts . |
| 28 | ‘ These examinations are not going to provide the skills that employers of the 1990s and the 21st century want . |
| 29 | Today , this dramatic loch still produces superb trout of unequalled quality ; and sea-trout , fresh from the tide that races through the outlet at Bridge of Waithie into Bay of Ireland and Hoy Sound . |
| 30 | Whilst such experimentation in community education may be small-scale it does provide the opportunity for adult education to demonstrate in microcosm the potential for change that inheres within the adult education framework , given the right political context . |