Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new , unintentional play on words now includes the idea of the quantity of dead things inside the idea of the death-knell ; " We 've lost a lot " , it hints , in losing etymological attitudes . |
| 2 | Citrine was always reluctant to withdraw from a Central Authority position , but the more effective chairmen soon learned that careful preparation on committees beforehand and advance lobbying of Citrine and Self were a surer way of winning their point than the abrasive technique of frontal opposition . |
| 3 | ‘ I work with Mr Mitchell or I refuse the assignment , ’ she snapped , her suspicions again aroused at this insistence on women only . |
| 4 | Chomsky , who is probably the most widely known living linguist , is listed , but readers are immediately referred to " Formal grammar " , which indicates a proper emphasis on ideas rather than personalities . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 6 | EDUCATION Secretary John Patten launched another attack on teachers today , hours after the start of massive boycott of tests for 14-year-olds . |
| 7 | The 11th edition was published in January ( £9.95 ; available from Chase on 071-404 5766 ) , and gives detailed information on PEPs both by type and alphabetically . |
| 8 | He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad . |
| 9 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 10 | O'er courtiers ' knees , that dream on curtsies straight ; |
| 11 | And they will make every individual employee on earnings up to at least £22,000 a year better off . |
| 12 | As James Flynn says , this was " in most important respects a faithful return to the statute of 1835 " , which sounds like a dubious compliment until one remembers that Nicholas I 's supposedly restrictive statute on universities actually preserved most of the enlightened principles of the statute of 1804 . |
| 13 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 14 | It is a sad reflection on relationships today that a group of strangers can have this kind of discussion , while even in the light of the Aids crisis , lovers still can not . |
| 15 | But while the absence of additional tax on spirits yesterday was welcomed , it was also generally described as only the first step on a long road before Scotch and other spirits were able to operate on a level playing field against other alcoholic drinks , in particular , wine . |
| 16 | More recent data on aggregate investment and the average yield on debentures again show little correlation during the past twenty years or so . |
| 17 | b ) For the second performance on nights when there are two performances : KING 'S STABLES ROAD both sides . |
| 18 | They will reward care over choosing their position with a gorgeous display of early flower on plants rarely more than 4in high . |
| 19 | Malos also said social workers needed to realise children were indirect victims of domestic violence : ‘ A lot of evidence is coming to light about the effects of domestic violence on children even if they are not the objects of the violence . ’ |
| 20 | Although there is some coverage of what appears to be routine violence on estates up and down the country — for example , on Today and This Week recently — this is one area we all under — report . |
| 21 | Turning to the impact of corporate discretion on communities more generally , it is clear that decisions about the location of company activities can have major implications for the economic , environmental , social , and cultural well-being of urban centres and entire regions . |
| 22 | Now , so , Face is trying to sort of put off Sir Epicure Manhom by saying , you know , this a mad woman who 's done too much learning nice little attack on women here by Johnson , who , who is one of the biggest misogynists in the world , erm a woman who 's gone crazy with learning and who knows nothing because er she 's just a prostitute and therefore she 's thick . |
| 23 | In Suffolk there was still a little water on roads yesterday . |
| 24 | Coun. Mrs Heather Scott ( C ) said it was unfair to impose a flat rise on tenants regardless of whether their homes had been repaired . |
| 25 | Nature of task — in work-groups , the production system , including the type of technology used , has a major effect on groups eg high-technology plant often disperses employees into isolated couples incapable of forming satisfactory groups . |
| 26 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 27 | Nigel gave her a little useful advice on publishers too . |
| 28 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 29 | Tap all woodwork on windows etc , and external rendering . |
| 30 | This flexibility of approach is repeated in P P G four , paragraph sixteen , where it states that advice on greenbelts where industrial and commercial development is not normally be appropriate , is provided in P P G two . |