Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The use of sports facilities is included in the holiday price with the exception of tuition , horse-riding , water sports and golf ( the 18-hole Is Molas Golf Club is ten minutes drive away ) .
2 As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy .
3 Moulton College is five miles north of Northampton off the A43 .
4 Force is mass times acceleration .
5 And the middle one , force is mass times acceleration erm I 'm going to give this a push , I 'll give this pen a push , accelerate .
6 The force is mass times acceleration .
7 The result was combined schools workshops ( Ruddock , 1981 ) , speakers on topics of mutual interest to teachers , and some attempts to encourage teachers to consider basic curriculum planning through group activity ( Small , 1982 ; Oldroyd et al , 1984 ; Easen 1985 ) .
8 The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give .
9 Sandholme and Hive are two hamlets side by side , where many years ago the inhabitants must have lived in blissful seclusion amid a farming community .
10 What sort of work were these girls doing for us ? ’
11 The happiest Boks at yesterday 's training session were 34-year-old veterans Botha and Danie Gerber , both playing superbly 12 years into their hugely interrupted international careers .
12 Next to the female fans in the public gallery were gay rights activists from the pressure group OutRage ! who said the decision would reinforce anti-gay prejudice and hatred .
13 Happy ending is big no-claims bonus for Michael
14 Its declination is 46 degrees north , so that it is circumpolar from Britain ; it can be seen from most inhabited countries , though it is always very low from New Zealand and does not rise at all from the latitude of Invercargill .
15 Its declination is 53 degrees south .
16 Koraloona is 130 miles west of Sanders Island and is dangerous to shipping because it is encircled by a coral reef at times fifty miles long , marked on all Admiralty charts .
17 In striking contrast to the Scottish hills which are often exposed rock and almost infertile at higher altitudes , the Black Forest plateau is prime cattle country with lush pasturage .
18 The youngster is two feet 10ins tall and weighs just under two stones .
19 The price of a loaf of bread was several hours labour and both the miller and the domestic baker had to slog away to procuce a loaf .
20 Leviticus was passing police headquarters in Johannesburg one day , walking along the pavement after a shopping expedition , when a crazed , homicidal black threw himself , unconscious , from the top storey and apparently ripped all his fingernails out on the way down .
21 Among those vying for a place in the British team are Canadian singles specialist Gareth Marriott , winner of last year 's pre-Olympic regatta , and , in the individual kayak class , former world champion Richard Fox and current champion Shaun Pearce .
22 Included in this group are all Anthias species , some damsels and clowns , wrasse , squirrelfish and soldierfish .
23 The poor , American slaves , Irish Catholics or the hypocrisy of war were all causes dear to his Whiggish heart and he scandalised the Establishment of his day .
24 She has worked with both Midlothian and East Lothian District Libraries , her last post being Bibliographic Services Librarian in Haddington .
25 Our preferred philosophical basis is human rights theory rather than utilitarianism .
26 The author is public relations adviser to the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators ALLEN SHEPPARD , chairman and group chief executive of Grand Metropolitan , reckons that business is now becoming so complex that he needs a new core of trained administrators .
27 In all of Asia only India had more cases — and India 's population is 15 times Thailand 's .
28 In antislavery 's earlier years Wilberforce 's close connection with Pitt has been well documented and his and Stephen 's collaboration with Grenville to bring about the abolition legislation of 1806 and 1807 is established .
29 The nominal qualification period was 10 years service .
30 The magistrate summarily tried cases in the police court , where the maximum punishment was three months imprisonment , twenty lashes , a fine of five pounds , or any two of the above .
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