Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen states have passed laws enabling private operators to run roads and railways : the state of Washington did so last month . |
| 2 | Other joint economic projects covered electricity and telecommunications : on Jan. 15 , 1990 , OPEC agreed to finance a common Yemeni electricity grid , and on Feb. 1 a Yemen General Electricity Corporation was set up , attracting immediate bids from eight British companies , while later in February the French company Alcatel announced a project to introduce a common digital telecommunications system for the two Yemens . |
| 3 | Typical commercial gasifier systems used to run engines consist of a reactor , where the gas is produced ; a gas cleaning and cooling system ; and a modified carburettor to feed gas and air into the engine . |
| 4 | Generally , then , the basic objective is to build up a strong framework or system of main stems , and to develop lateral side shoots which are pruned back each spring to 3 or 4 inches ( 7.5 or 10cm ) , with a terminal bud pointing in the right direction to fill spaces and gaps . |
| 5 | The two-bedroom cottage needs refurbishment but it is in a superb location , in the middle of woodland owned by the National Trust and overlooking the River Yealm . |
| 6 | The benefits offered to members are excellent , giving practical help and advice on all aspects of self-promotion from presentation of art work , legal rights , gallery space competitions and exhibitions , to making the right contacts and indeed making friends , through the Regional Groups of AOI members who regularly organise both social and professional activities to stimulate interest and support for the profession . |
| 7 | A Victorian overstuffed settee went for £340 ; another overstuffed settee made £325 and a mahogany inlaid sideboard £270 . |
| 8 | Whereas examples from each branch of physical geography indicate the way in which spatial patterns reflecting process and dynamics can be derived , there is also the possibility of a more integrated approach . |
| 9 | For oily skin try calendula flowers ; For dry skin try parsley or cornflower ; For mature skin try dandelion or elderflowers ; To soothe skin try camomile or thyme . |
| 10 | Colonic assessment to detect carcinomas or polyps is warranted in older patients . |
| 11 | For instance , most price-level indices include goods and services that are not traded internationally . |
| 12 | The spokesman continued : ‘ It is felt that this application is in no way connected with the rural brick works industry and is an entirely separate and commercial venture . |
| 13 | The company employs 1,750 people worldwide , with 800 technical personnel doing design and development of application software for health services , central and local governments , municipal police departments , libraries , international banking , discrete manufacturing , and the payroll , personnel and pension markets . |
| 14 | Establish some short-term projects to make improvements and get your people involved . |
| 15 | Bruno Mégret , deputy leader of the extreme right-wing National Front ( FN ) , revealed on Nov. 16 a list of 50 working proposals to halt immigration and control immigrants . |
| 16 | working groups to develop assignments and assessment materials ; |
| 17 | Although a full inspection of the sites was not due to be conducted until June , the North Korean authorities allowed Blix and a team of inspectors to make an immediate " courtesy visit " in mid-May . |
| 18 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 19 | The Community has agreed to increase the accountability of European Community institutions ; to strengthen the European Parliament 's financial control over the Commission ; to allow the European Parliament to investigate maladministration and to appoint a Community ombudsman accessible to all Community citizens ; to build up the role of the Court of Auditors , which becomes an institution of the Community ; and to ensure compliance with Community obligations by giving the European Court of Justice power to impose fines on Governments who sign directives but subsequently do not implement them . |
| 20 | The report also recognises the importance of completing and operating Sizewell B saying there is ‘ no economic case to suspend construction or mothball the station ’ . |
| 21 | The report recognises the importance of completing and operating the company 's Sizewell-B plant , saying there is ‘ no economic case to suspend construction or mothball the station . ’ |
| 22 | Some of the effects of caerulein infusion have been reproduced in this study by exogenous platelet activating factor and the results indicate that platelet activating factor administered in a single dose by itself can induce pancreatitis with typical enlargement of the pancreas and inflammatory changes in the tissue as well as in the increase in plasma amylase concentration . |
| 23 | Elite theorists argue that there are gross inequalities of political influence between interest groups ; that many mass-based groups promoting issues or views which threaten established elites are excluded from influence ; and that there are many groups not organized at all , or only episodically able to make their voices heard . |
| 24 | Right okay what he is saying is erm that first of all the peasants hit the landlords politically erm and the first thing they wanted to do was smash the political prestige and power of the landlord class erm without victory in this struggle no victory is possible in the economic struggle to reduce rent and interest er to secure land and other factors of production . |
| 25 | People therefore have extensive opportunity to make decisions that determine what matters . |
| 26 | After consultation with the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland ( the glen is an SSSI ) and British Alcan ( who own it ) ; and with the help from the Glen Nevis ranger service and master footpath repairer Bob Aitken , the centre will erect low-key waymarking to minimise damage and monitor the situation in case remedial work is needed in the future . |
| 27 | A way out of this design limitation is offered by molluscs , whose best-known land-living forms include slugs and snails . |
| 28 | Other countries used protection to promote specialization and increasingly intensive production for urban markets . |
| 29 | The techniques used with normal subjects give estimates that do not closely correspond to those derived from the clinical literature . |
| 30 | Its low drag offers lines that are taut and straight throughout a broad wind window . |