Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Proposed reforms to the French port system , which have led to one-day strikes by dockers almost every week , are to be continued , the prime minister said . |
| 32 | No , it really is n't necessary — if you 're eating a healthy balance of foods then no extra vitamin is going to make any difference . |
| 33 | Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word . |
| 34 | the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ . |
| 35 | We will be expanding opportunities by promoting existing tennis resources around the world and improving communications between members so an extensive and thriving network is created . ’ |
| 36 | More encouraging was another survey by HMI in 1950–51 of the adult education provision made by the Responsible Bodies in Norfolk viz. the Board of Extra-Mural Studies and the Eastern District , both grant-aided by the Norwich and Norfolk LEAs . |
| 37 | They have applied double standards by funding favourably a few pupils in CTCs and grant-maintained schools while denying most schools the funds that they need . |
| 38 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 39 | Even if you ca n't find or afford tall elegant pieces of furniture much the same effect can be produced with a tall plant or lamp , wall-fixed shelving , mirrors and , of course , pictures . |
| 40 | If the acceleration of a system occurs over a small number of steps then the phase excitation timings can be generated by digital integrated circuits . |
| 41 | In the usual form of construction both the lead and return conductors are made of copper to minimise resistive loss , the outer return is braided for flexibility and the entire space in between is filled with highly insulating material such as polythene , polythene foam or polytetrafluoroethylene . |
| 42 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 43 | Since there exists a vital need for government just the same , this faith in the worth of each human being is bound to seek a balance of the two needs in some system of restraints which protects the individual , or at least minorities , against any despotic exercise of political authority . |
| 44 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 45 | The progression is familiar enough , and it adds another modern dimension to Middle-earth-or rather a timeless one , for though in the modern age we give Saruman a modern ‘ applicability ’ , his name , and the evident uncertainty even in Anglo-Saxon times over mechanical cleverness and ‘ machinations ’ , shows that his meaning was ancient too . |
| 46 | In 1155 , the customs confirmed by Louis VII for Lorris on the royal demesne established that no parishioner should have to pay taxes on food intended for his own consumption or on grain grown by his own labour ; he should be exempt from tolls when he took his produce to the neighbouring towns of Etampes , Orléans , Milly , or Melun ; if required for a chevauchée , he must be allowed to return home at the end of the day ; the only labour service he owed his lord was in carrying seigneurial wine to Orléans twice a year ; and the burgesses of Lorris as a whole were exempted from seigneurial tailles . |
| 47 | In the case of the thermal printer it is essential to get the correct grade of paper otherwise the image does not develop properly . |
| 48 | They stared at each other , a foot apart , eye into eye , the battered urchin from next door now a beautiful young woman in a gown by Patou , and the beautiful young woman from Paris now a battered old woman in much-mended peignoir . |
| 49 | He was using a modern style of movement therefore the rise and fall of his design had far greater dimensions and therefore greater emotional content , His dancers had to parallel the sonorities of Fauré 's solemn ritual of mourning . |
| 50 | On almost the whole of the exposed parts of the western coasts of Britain both the prevalent and dominant winds are the westerlies , but on the east coast , where the prevalent winds are still the westerlies , the dominant winds are the easterlies , as the westerly winds are blowing offshore and are incapable of producing waves affecting the coast . |
| 51 | If the Moon also lost most of its craters from the final stages of formation then the apparent failure on Mercury of post-formation bombardment to saturate the intercrater plains may seem to indicate that Mercury was exposed to a less numerous population of small bodies than the Moon . |
| 52 | In many cases this will simply require consultation via the telephone , however , in others , you may be required to provide certain information by facsimilie eg. the ERROR.LOG file , module headers or validation statistics . |
| 53 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 54 | Nevertheless , those unfamiliar with the original Dutch version ( which is most people ) may find this a satisfying way to while away an evening . |
| 55 | Nevertheless , those unfamiliar with the original Dutch version ( which is most people ) may find this a satisfying way to while away an evening . |
| 56 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 57 | The carrying capacity of much of the land was greater than in other parts of Wales hence the predominance of full-time units . |
| 58 | From a Christian point of view therefore the root cause of the crisis of capitalism is not bigger government or more complex technology or even defects in the system of property rights , but certain false values on which it is based . |
| 59 | Righter is Unix System Labs/Novell Inc joint-venture Univel 's second top-level loss — vice president Greg Fallon was recalled back to his original post at Novell just a couple of months ago . |
| 60 | Football : Why Robson must discover innovation : Patrick Barclay , Football Correspondent , on England 's overriding need for understudies now a place in the Italian sun has been secured |