Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with the implementation of the Eleventh Directive , this non-disclosure advantage will disappear ; and , if the Ninth Directive is put in place , and in due course extends to all subsidiaries ( whether public or private companies ) , then this non-recourse advantage will also disappear in the circumstances specified in the Ninth Directive . |
| 2 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 3 | But little preparation goes into these meetings . |
| 4 | Documentary evidence of the economic damage caused by these animals has only recently become available with the institution in Italy of a programme to refund farmers for losses caused by wolves , which are legally protected . |
| 5 | The nature of delegated financial control is that decision making in these areas is moved from the LEA to the school level . |
| 6 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 7 | The highly transient nature of the casual labour force in hotels and catering , and the low attachment to work of many casuals — itself often related to the fact that their jobs are very much part-time — mean that the unions ' task will scarcely be an easy one . |
| 8 | The arrangement of the Local Management of Schools is one of the best initiatives of the Conservative Government and it has freed schools from the heavy-handed control of Local Government , and in particular that of Labour controlled Authorities because it 's a step into the unknown for some , with obviously some doubt at first , and many Labour Groups fed on those doubts with lies and threats but nevertheless it was taken up wholeheartedly by many schools . |
| 9 | Four of Africa 's most talented peoples — the Ibo , the Bamilike , the waChagga and the Bugunda — have all had their innovative talents circumscribed for many years . |
| 10 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 11 | The issue of animal experimentation is an emotive subject with strong views held on both sides . |
| 12 | And INFOWORLD recently called Version 4.0 ‘ the nest graphics package for the complex technical graphs wanted by most scientists and engineers . ’ |
| 13 | Although essentially concerned with adapting centrally determined policy to local circumstances , and interfacing with relevant consumers , the professional expertise embedded in such bodies nevertheless provides opportunities to shape decision-making in some areas of public policy . |
| 14 | In our patients , those with proven neural and muscular pathology conformed to these patterns of motor activity . |
| 15 | Perhaps so — but the acute distress caused to both sets of parents should make all hospital staff take the warning to heart . |
| 16 | It has been shown that inactivated herpes virus is more capable of inducing cancerous change in certain cells than the normal virus , and the possible risks attached to such vaccines vastly outweigh any dubious advantages . |
| 17 | China is perhaps the best example of the way in which European influences operated in many forms because political power , both direct and indirect , was mingled there with economic exploitation ( for Egyptian and Chinese affairs ; see below , pp. 107 , 124 ) . |
| 18 | The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul was founded in 1083 , about 50 years before Brother Cadfael 's time ; three huge columns and a wonderfully preserved Norman archway survive from those days . |
| 19 | Until 1986 Andy caddied for several players , including Gary Player and Bernhard Langer . |
| 20 | In the 1983 general election , the Labour vote declined in all regions by between 6% and 12% . |
| 21 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 22 | Animal paintings by artists such as Ward and Cooper contained appropriate nationalist resonances coupled with the new upward directed social significations of agricultural practice desired by these purchasers . |
| 23 | Strong opposition came from former socialists within the JD who argued that the idea was contrary to the party 's founding principles [ see p. 37004 ] . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , Peters 's second and third questions also highlight the three main problems encountered with all land use work : first , the multiplicity of data sources shown in-Table 8.1 ; second , the different temporal and spatial units employed by these sources ; and third , and perhaps most important of all , the different classifications involved . |
| 25 | Indeed the political parties preparing for those elections are in the process of selecting the candidates er there will in fact be an extra constituency in the East Midlands as a result of this particular order in council er and indeed the political parties at some stage will have to select new candidates for the six extra seats across the united kingdom . |
| 26 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 27 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with well developed disk plates or enlarged disk scales ; the disk sometimes indented interradially and often high ; the radial shields forming part of the disk , often quite long but not bar-like and hidden by the disk plates ; jaws as broad as long ; one apical papilla flanked on each side by up to six oral papillae found in most genera except Ophiocamax and Ophiomitra which have multiple apical and oral papillae ; oral tentacle pore not superficial and without conspicuously modified tentacle scales ; oral shield small to medium in size ; the tentacle pores of the arm not conspicuously large and always armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines usually long , the longest equal in length to at least 2 arm segments . |
| 28 | … [ He ] has never abandoned his aims for a Union of West African Soviet Socialist Republics and has not abandoned his foreign affiliations connected with these aims . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps you would like to see some improvements made to some shops , museums , galleries or sports centres ? |
| 30 | Stukeley in his diary for 1745 , however , claimed that the medieval university evolved from All Saints ' College , established in 1109 at Wothorpe , by Joffied , Abbot of Crowland Abbey . |