Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |
| 32 | It has tried to make the excellent support the Campaign offers more accessible to people all over Wales who are keen to improve their local environment . |
| 33 | He had said it was unwise to load up in villages because of thieves and dangerous to camp apart from each other because of bandits . |
| 34 | The gyroscopes associated with Artifical Horizons are subject to errors both in turns and during fore-and-aft acceleration , but for all practical purposes may be considered to be unaffected by the normal manoeuvres experienced in airline operations . |
| 35 | This special status of a visitor springs from the common law recognising the right of the founder to lay down such a special law subject to adjudication only by a special judge , the visitor . |
| 36 | A further difficulty lay in the fact that until recently section 4(2) orders were not subject to challenge either by way of appeal or , in the case of those issued by the Crown Court , by judicial review . |
| 37 | The decision in In re A Company shows that Parliament can by the use of appropriate language provide that a decision on a question of law whether taken by a judge or by some other form of tribunal shall be considered as final and not be subject to challenge either by way of appeal or judicial review . |
| 38 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 39 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 40 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 41 | The handsome and sombre costumes , historically accurate , are relieved by colour only in the auto-da-fe , which seemed to belong to another production and signally failed to make the flesh creep , even when the fire was lit in the victims ' underground cage . |
| 42 | The only area which seems to have been devoid of buildings almost throughout the Roman period lay near the main centre of occupation in Birch Abbey and Evesham Street . |
| 43 | The group award must attract national recognition by relevant users as being worthy of certification either for employment or progression . |
| 44 | This radical change of emphasis proved to be extremely unpopular with doctors both in primary care and the hospital service . |
| 45 | So at baptism , the new Christian would be immersed and go down into the river or the immersion font in Burmese skirt and coat , and on emerging from the water be clothed with the three garments of a Burmese monk , only white in colour instead of saffron , this signing acceptance as a mature member of the religious community and the cleansing from sin . |
| 46 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 47 | They have been hard at training ever since their one point victory over the famous Dubs in the semi-final a few weeks ago . |
| 48 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 49 | Just as the temporary status of the seasonal labour in the service sector was by no means always obvious by reference only to their contracts of employment , neither was that of the " new temporary labour force in manufacturing . |
| 50 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 51 | The hall would become alive with people rather like a railway terminus , and at the heart of the seeming chaos , controlling and directing , helping and explaining , were the staff of the reception desk . |
| 52 | Significant bleeding between periods even without pains . |
| 53 | Knowing that the village is close at hand , that the inn and the villagers will be awake for hours yet of summer light to welcome me , I linger , enjoying that expectancy of pleasure that is perhaps the most pleasurable part of a journey home . |
| 54 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 55 | But there was a degree of intelligence and the Newfoundland of course is er spectacular dog , particularly in water I mean the Irish Water Spaniel 's pretty good in water so as a |
| 56 | Driving and development was well in hand all over the mining leasehold and matters should have appeared promising to both the Adventurers and the income of the estate . |
| 57 | But Thomas Kuhn has argued that even the concepts and laws become intelligible in practice only as components of a disciplinary matrix which he calls the ‘ paradigm ’ , in which the scientist learns to apply them through concrete instances of problem-solving which serve as models in approaching new puzzles . |
| 58 | be involved in evaluation both of product and process . |
| 59 | In his survey he found that ‘ about 60% of the wives claimed to be regularly involved in discussions either about day-to-day business matters or about longer term business decisions ’ . |
| 60 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |