Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet another element was added to the civilization of Palermo ; and at the very end of our period , in the late 1140s , King Roger II , greatest of the Norman rulers of south Italy and Sicily , created the monument which above all others links us to his world , the royal chapel , the Capella Palatina , Norman Romanesque in architecture , Byzantine in its mosaics , Islamic in its strange and fascinating ceiling . |
| 2 | In coeliac disease , patients with abnormal histology have increased intensity of epithelial staining which in some cases now extended into the crypts . |
| 3 | In the actual examination all the figures are provided and it is only necessary to infer from inspecting the graph or drawing which of four alternatives is the correct one . |
| 4 | But taking the objective Macdonald view in this first season back in the Premier Division , survival was his first concern for Airdrie , the avoidance of relegation for a club which in realistic terms has no money to buy quality players , crowds averaging less than 5,000 and a creaking , obsolute stadium . |
| 5 | I opt for the outside seat which in some models is adapted into a mini-swimming-pool . |
| 6 | A small limited company which is run by a husband and wife , who are the sole directors , runs a car which to all intents and purposes is a delivery vehicle . |
| 7 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 8 | The firemen 's water had contained an extinguishing agent which at specific temperatures has an exalting effect on colour emulsion . |
| 9 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 10 | Darren 's face expressed an immediate and lively scepticism which in other circumstances , Massingham would have found amusing . |
| 11 | In the meantime , of course , the Administration could dispose of the general inspector 's office to another party while being sure of the political interest of Deacon Murray , a result which in all probability was anticipated by the astute Milton . |
| 12 | In so doing it also crossed what the Swiss recognise as an ancient cultural frontier which in this part of the country runs not as a straight line but in a curve in clockwise direction , through the Brunig Pass , the centre of the highland massif known as the Napf , and the river Reuss which flows out from the Vierwaldstattersee at Luzern . |
| 13 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 14 | In the early fifteenth century Albrecht II became Holy Roman Emperor and the title remained with the House of Habsburg from 1437 until 1806 , when Napoleon abolished the institution which by that time was , in Voltaire 's words of 1756 , ‘ neither Holy , nor Roman , nor an empire ’ . |
| 15 | Enough disruption to ensure that the place is in a continual ferment of reorganization which in other companies may well be a good thing to have . |
| 16 | In a review which in some respects reads like a premature obituary , Turney describes the current ( 1990 ) situation with regard to the place of peer review in funding UK science . |
| 17 | The hungry eye hoovers up her stout jugful of brushes , her bottled solvents — xylene , propanol , acetone — her jars of vivacious pigment , her special picture restorer 's cotton wool which with teasing banality turns out to be mere Economy Pleat from Pretty . |
| 18 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 19 | As time passes and the prospects of development concentrate and mature in particular places , the gap which in many cases already exists between the amount of the claim and the amount of the development charge will grow wider . |
| 20 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
| 21 | the potential recourse of the provider of finance is clearly limited solely to the funds generated by the asset it finances , with no right of recourse whatsoever to other assets of the entity ; and |
| 22 | Many candidates would think nothing of taking advantage of headhunters by accepting a free overseas trip and free entertainment such as drinks , lunch or dinner , whilst having no intention whatsoever of changing jobs . |
| 23 | The minister also said that there would be no financial or budgetary disadvantage whatsoever to any GP who had to treat a large number of chronically ill patients . |
| 24 | The last guesstimate before the reserve was invaded put its total pygmy hog population at less than 50 ( with a small population in the Barnadi reserve ) , and there has been no indication whatsoever of any concern by the rebels for the animals ' future . |
| 25 | No-one except those who are wilfully blind to the nature of our proceedings can possibly spell out of the Bill any condonation whatever of homosexual conduct which can affect young people in their formative years . |
| 26 | She is a Christian which by silly standards should cut her off from the people in our predominantly Buddhist country … |
| 27 | They fielded a ten-man defence which for some time looked like achieving the 0–0 draw they desired . |
| 28 | Leonard retired for the first time in 1982 with a detached retina which until recent times would have ended his fighting career permanently . |
| 29 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 30 | The contributions that were to be offered with the study of process may be surveyed from the viewpoint of soil science and the biogeographer , from that of the climatologist and the geomorphologist and then from the field of hydrology which to some extent provided a new focus of interest for physical geographers and one that proffered a link between at least the geomorphic and climatic aspects of physical environment . |