Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In such circumstances either credits are arranged with merchants for surplus materials less a restocking charge , or they are sold or scrapped .
2 Expression of displeasure or withdrawal of attention becomes a much more potent force for managing misdemeanours once the child realizes that the parents can be very pleasant and loving .
3 If the answer is that they are idealistic categories generated through consciousness of ideal relations then the idealistic basis of these specific examples of ‘ ideological forms ’ can be understood .
4 There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen .
5 The structure of surveying education has progressed through a number of fundamental changes since the granting of a Royal Charter to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors over a hundred years ago .
6 It accelerates pencil-sized beams of electrons and their anti-matter equivalent , positrons , to near the speed of light in opposite directions around a 17-mile circular tunnel , roughly the length of London Underground 's Circle line .
7 So the very feature of our own legal practice that seemed to make conventionalism a good interpretation of legal practice — the deep , constant concern judges and lawyers show about the " correct " reading of statutes and precedents in hard cases actually an embarrassment to that conception .
8 The car in front moves forward a few yards , but when Robyn inches forward in turn the young man lays a restraining hand on the Renault 's wing .
9 The work of Religious Orders e.g. the Jericho Benedictines
10 4. develop and deepen pupils ' grasp of religious concepts especially the key one of " God " .
11 Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago .
12 But each has different effects at different ages so the balance is sensitive to changes in age structure ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1987 , 1988 ) .
13 If migration er increases to a hundred percent of past trends then the employment provision will have to increase also .
14 1.3.5 There was a need for provision which articulated with awards of other bodies eg the National Coaching Foundation .
15 Pupils at Egglescliffe Comprehensive School , Eaglescliffe , have organised a draw among local businesses so the parish council can buy a seat to commemorate the Queen 's 40th year .
16 The variety of employment was greater with the availability of local industries often the deciding factor .
17 But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) .
18 Less than 12 months after Steve Pate was pulled out of the Ryder Cup singles on medical grounds much the same thing happened at the recent PGA Cup match at Kildare .
19 There was a rapid increase in the number of proposals before the Group in 1975 , and James Porter recalls taking part in two-day visits roughly every other week .
20 There is no doubt that if you have a desire to test your horticultural skills in growing pears then a warm south wall is the ideal for the support of spur-pruned and carefully trained trees .
21 Moreover , if the centre parties succeed in breaking through into parliament in large numbers then the prospect of coalition government would be increased and this would give the Crown a role in the making of governments since it would no longer be a simple and automatic matter of sending for the leader of the majority party in the Commons .
22 And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man .
23 Take , for instance , a firm that pays a single $10m claim for product-liability damages once every three years , on average .
24 Table 6.2 shows the proportion of the sample of men in each social class who reported helping their wives in various tasks once a week .
25 In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously .
26 He was at the mercy of crack-brained adults just the same as they were with crazy Sylvester .
27 Such a memorial , however , was not likely to satisfy Catholics , Jews and members of other denominations so the RAF sought the help of the CWGC .
28 The campaign of mass action organized by the ANC and its allies which began on June 16 [ see p. 38948 ] continued during July with demonstrations of differing sizes almost every day .
29 The disk spine may be simple or sometimes there is a collar of secondary points about a third of the way up the shaft .
30 The first impression was , to say the least , somewhat awe inspiring — smooth , dark grey , concrete walls stretching up about ten metres with raised gun-towers approximately every 100 metres .
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