Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Meanwhile , Apple Computers has stepped up its campaign against companies allegedly making counterfeit Apple 11 computers ( New Scientist , 18 November 1982 p 407 ) . |
| 32 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 33 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |
| 34 | Italy 's export guarantee agency SACE reportedly agreed to remove Mexico from its high risk list , and had abolished its ceiling on investments there . |
| 35 | And scattered her palette of colours here . |
| 36 | There are the Welsh Road , the Salt Way , the Port Way , Akeman Street , Traitor 's Ford Lane and Banbury Lane ; and besides these named roads a considerable number of roads , lanes and paths that excite our curiosity by their directness for miles across almost uninhabited country , or by their association with parish boundaries or ancient earthworks ( like Aves Ditch ) , or some other suspicious circumstance . |
| 37 | The Tilt Theatre encourages the people who come to see its evening shows to give their reaction in discussions immediately after each performance . |
| 38 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 39 | The directors said the disposal of non-core businesses would continue with the full benefits of its shift in activities not expected before 1991 . |
| 40 | Traditional administration has been supplanted by active management with its focus on results rather than process and year-on-year improvements in performance . |
| 41 | Little-known , that is , until she received the Snavely Award for Least Useful Research for her development of schools where backward quarks might learn charm . |
| 42 | The Battle of Edgehill in sixteen forty two was one of the most important and bloody in English history , and the re-creation had its share of injuries too . |
| 43 | BBC Enterprises , which is funding its share from profits not the licence fee , will take around 20 per cent of the channel . |
| 44 | Recent evidence , presented by Primrose of Searle shows that genetically-engineered cells can change their character in ways not completely understood after about eight days continuous growth . |
| 45 | It was held that , because of the reputation the plaintiff 's product had gained , it should be protected from deceptive use of its name by competitors even though the goodwill was shared by several traders . |
| 46 | This consideration points to the fact that the very restrictions imposed on societies by the Rawlsian principles of justice make the implementation of some conceptions of the good more difficult and their pursuit by individuals less attractive than that of others . |
| 47 | If working five days a week on Neighbours for two years was tough , her schedule on Delinquents really proved it 's not all glamour in the movie-making business either . |
| 48 | Suzy 's parents were very concerned at her behaviour during mealtimes when , despite her nine years of age , she would refuse to eat unless fed , would throw food and utensils on the floor and often refuse food entirely . |
| 49 | Parents were often in the foreground of the picture but their relationship with teachers rather than with governors themselves was not often highlighted . |
| 50 | The reduced autonomy and effectiveness of individual states resulting from globalization has undermined their authority in regions where the claims of minority ‘ stateless nations ’ provide an alternative focus for allegiance . |
| 51 | In supporting our contention , we consider the way in which statistics are presented and the assumptions generally made about the health and dependency of older people as well as about their role as consumers rather than producers of goods and services . |
| 52 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild ( WCG ) was founded in 1884 with a view to helping women become better housewives and cooperators and to take their role as consumers seriously . |
| 53 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 54 | All these preparations for living off the land were unnecessary , for between them they knew of a network of wealthy houses , stretching from St Tropez to Mykonos , where bedrooms with a bath en suite , swimming-pools and occasional servants in white gloves would be put at their disposal by parents only too grateful to discover that their daughters had not , as yet , been violated by a lorry-driver or their sons arrested for the importation of stuff . |
| 55 | For the Tory Opposition , the only hope was that the Bill might be delayed ; that , with the delay , the working man would come to realise that , if the Bill became law , he would have been wholly disenfranchised ; and that , with the realisation , the lower classes would unite with the aristocracy to secure the rejection of the proposals contained in the Bill and their replacement by others much more modest . |
| 56 | The process will necessarily be a dynamic one with DHAs updating their plans annually and modifying their pattern of contracts both to reflect changing needs and to respond to new services becoming available from current or alternative providers . |
| 57 | First , vaccinia itself is not without its dangers : vaccination against smallpox carries a risk of encephalitis serious enough to have prohibited its use in countries where smallpox was not endemic well before the success of the eradication campaign . |
| 58 | Ashman seems to make more whimsical use of the device of exit up-stage , re-entry stage right ( whether the idea is Ashman 's or Noelte 's , its use in duets where one knows the exiting character has a line to sing almost at once , soon becomes irritating ) . |
| 59 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 60 | In a few minutes , Robert Maxwell 's widow puts her collection of hats up for auction . |