Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves the court ordering a third party who owes your debtor money to pay that money into court instead of to your debtor . |
| 2 | The Tech-Greens are probably breeding the right kind of people right at this minute . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died . |
| 4 | Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the level of interest is not backed up by the right level of knowledge either from prospective users or from many of the suppliers . |
| 6 | Although some of the worst fears of those who dislike the market mentality can be discarded there is no doubt that complete freedom of competition particularly in social care , will not work . |
| 7 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 8 | Furthermore , intervention programmes aiming to reduce the level of expressed emotion among relatives high on this index , or alternatively to reduce their level of face-to-face contact , have shown that relapse rates can be reduced in this way ( e.g. Leff et al. , 1982 ; 1985 ; Falloon et al. , 1982 ; and see chapter 9 ) . |
| 9 | The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law . |
| 10 | This , with the already established Course I , will continue to operate until it has reached due completion for students currently in training . |
| 11 | In Britain , where suspicion of the army as a possible instrument of tyranny together with a generally rising level of prosperity made recruits unusually hard to obtain , this element was prominent . |
| 12 | The approach was reactive and piecemeal , with little appreciation of traffic now as a system or of the relationships between land use and traffic generation . |
| 13 | Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education . |
| 14 | By contrast , in Britain the pattern has been one of small disruptive strikes — often over job demarcation or manning levels — which have had serious long-term effects on output quality , delivery dates and labour costs , leading to a corrosive loss of markets both at home and abroad [ Phelps Brown , 1977 ] . |
| 15 | The FTSE index of the leading 100 companies opened down a marginal 1.1 at 2704.5 , with interest focused more closely on political uncertainty at home ahead of tonight 's Europe vote . |
| 16 | This change in attitude together with the problems of housing the vehicles , ensured the rock-bottom values which enabled to collect . |
| 17 | But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even in mediaeval times . |
| 18 | Be sure to scatter this kind of food thinly in the places where these species normally forage — a heap of cheese in the middle of the lawn will just attract the attentions of your local starlings . |
| 19 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 20 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 21 | for people who are caring for their , their family we 've , we 've also said , that employers should recognise that people should be able to get , erm some kind of leave occasionally from their work er , perhaps ten days a year when they find the person they 're looking after is is sick . |
| 22 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 23 | I wanted it to be over , to return to the innocence and freedom of life before the kidnap , for John to be safe , for us all to know some kind of certainty instead of this constant doubt and anxiety , to be able to think of the future again . |
| 24 | They believe Mr MacDonald may have been involved in some kind of argument shortly before his death . |
| 25 | Promoter Barry Hearn told me : ‘ He must have created some kind of record already with this his ninth world title fight in under two years . |
| 26 | I 've taken someone this afternoon from Highdown just until the half term when they should go to a special school . |
| 27 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 28 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 29 | The declaration left open the possibility of bilateral aid , and the West German government subsequently pledged a loan package amounting to US$3,100 million in advance of the Gorbachev-Kohl summit on German reunification in Moscow later in July [ see pp. 37659-61 ] . |
| 30 | But for QPR 's Les Ferdinand there was another dip in fortunes midway through a season that began with an international breakthrough . |