Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after work began however , it was found that there were serious problems in making a secure , stable base for the embankment and thus progress was brought to a halt . |
| 2 | It was agreed that retail/service jobs provided neither a stable base for the economy nor decent jobs for the people of the area . |
| 3 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 4 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 5 | The Labour government was bound to take action : indeed there was a coordinated response through the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | It will further be argued that initial teacher training can not be treated as separate from other areas of teacher education and that changes in any one sector will inevitably influence all teacher education provision , initial , probation support and in-service and that in the light of this interdependence , strategies should be established for a coordinated response across the spectrum of teacher education provision . |
| 7 | Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force . |
| 8 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 9 | At the end of the day it 's a political decision from the council of ministers , but it seems to be going there with a firm endorsement of support from the commission . ’ |
| 10 | Others awaiting trial by the same court for corruption during Pasok 's eight-year term of office ( 1981-89 ) included the former Prime Minister , Andreas Papandreou , who stated after the verdict that not Athanasopoulos and his actions but " a collective political decision by a government " had been on trial . |
| 11 | Unrepentant , Palmer shifted his ground to an attack on the format of the Annual Estimates of Nigeria , which he developed into a campaign for the complete decentralization of the Treasury Department . |
| 12 | They will ‘ see ’ the woman who is crying as herself and not as some emotional ghost from the past . |
| 13 | They opened premises in the most prestigious part of the town . |
| 14 | Viewed from space , the normal progress of the survey ship was like the passage of a comet . |
| 15 | The project therefore attempts to devise a more general descriptive framework for the intonation of the languages investigated and to establish a general theory of intonation structure which takes account of the different role of intonation in languages of different types . |
| 16 | The British Ceramic Research Association , for instance , have a routine impact test for ceramic tiles in which a loosely supported square tile is struck a measured blow in the centre of one flat face . |
| 17 | The dispute within Solidarity reached its height during the June 29-July 1 meeting of the Solidarity citizens ' committees in Warsaw , at which some observers feared a complete break-up of the union , and at which Michnik publicly appealed to Walesa to step back from a potentially ruinous confrontation with the government . |
| 18 | As they were walking along a narrow passageway by the bar Mr Maltby accidentally nudged Mr Waterworth a former miner , and ‘ spilled twopence worth of beer . ’ |
| 19 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 20 | Landsbergis on May 2 expressed support for the idea of Franco-German mediation , and said that some of the laws passed since the March 11 independence declaration could be frozen , but that the declaration itself was sacrosanct . |
| 21 | Yet the means he employs seem to contradict these aims : reconciling his removal of benefits from 16 and 17 year olds , for instance , with his expressed support for the family , is an exercise to test even the wisest . |
| 22 | Chinese Premier Li Peng on Sept. 8 expressed support for the East Asia Economic Grouping ( EAEG ) plan , proposed by Malaysia , saying that the planned grouping was vital in view of increasing economic protectionist practices . |
| 23 | Finance Ministers from the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries who met in Washington on April 28 expressed support for the World Bank 's reaffirmation of its commitment to make poverty reduction " a priority objective " in its lending operations . |
| 24 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 25 | This chapter seeks to offer a broad description of the eurobond market ; an economic analysis of its behaviour , microstructure and reasons for location in London ; and an assessment of certain key issues relating to prospects for the eurobond market and its location in London . |
| 26 | ‘ The death of Marcos offers a momentous opportunity for the Aquino government to rally the people behind the ideals which swept it to power : freedom and democracy , bread and justice . |
| 27 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 28 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 29 | Blaine Trump , wrapped in Christian Lacroix chiffon , organised the social portion of the night , held inside a balloon-filled tent at the Lincoln Center . |
| 30 | Her utterly unquestioning faith in the Bible led her to believe that none could possibly be luckier or greater than those whom the love of God chooses , and if the love of God had chosen to choose the Jews , then their superiority over the rest of mankind could not possibly be doubted . |