Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 2 | Before the vote , Lord Owen said bravely that rejection by the Bosnian Serb parliament of the plan that he and Cyrus Vance had drafted would be only ‘ a temporary setback ’ and that planning for the deployment of up to 75,000 peacekeepers would go ahead . |
| 3 | During his visit Jordanian officials asked Joxe to " re-examine " a 1988 contract for the purchase of up to 20 Mirage 2000 multi-role combat aircraft [ see p. 36122 ] . |
| 4 | ( ANNE ) In a few minutes … the battle of the buskers.A host of street performers are vying for the title of Best of British … |
| 5 | In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime . |
| 6 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 7 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 8 | None the less , the Barclay offer had been instrumental in saving the statue for the nation at least for the time being and , soon after , the Minister for the Arts announced that an export licence had been refused . |
| 9 | Nor for that matter could Wiltshire clothiers , for , although a dozen or more were rated for the Anticipation at upwards of £100 , the highest was only £250 : for some reason the great William Stumpe of Malmesbury was not assessed . |
| 10 | For more advanced study , it is important for the reader at least to be aware of these complications . |
| 11 | In May 1984 the British government granted a licence and planning permission for the extraction of up to one and half million tonnes of lignite a year to Northern Strip Mining , part of the British Burnett and Hallamshire group . |
| 12 | These allowed for the use of up to five pairs of stones . |
| 13 | ULSTER Farmers ' Union president Robert McCloy has welcomed comments in a report from the House of Commons Agriculture Committee criticising the Government for advancing justifications for the cuts of up to 27pc in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance payments on breeding sheep in the severely disadvantaged areas . |
| 14 | The 800-year-old hospital cares for the ill from all over Britain . |
| 15 | Women , being closer to nature because of their biology , were more likely to be overcome by powerful feelings , and the burden therefore fell upon women to control themselves , for their good and for the good of all around them . |
| 16 | One of their proposals is for the appointment of up to three bishops as ‘ provincial visitors ’ , outside the traditional structure of diocesan bishops . |
| 17 | The Thalassiothrix mat deposits , which are the direct result of surface processes , are therefore clear evidence that surface processes , and not dissolution at depth , controlled many of the major changes in the relative abundance of carbonate and silica during the Neogene at least in the equatorial Pacific . |
| 18 | In consideration of the purchaser incurring the costs of its professional advisers in commencing due diligence and negotiating the binding agreement the vendor hereby undertakes to the purchaser that during the period from today until midnight on [ ] 19[] it shall not negotiate the sale of the business with any person ( either directly or indirectly ) other than the purchaser The only essential content of the heads of terms is to specify that they are subject to contract except for one or two specific clauses . |
| 19 | Much of their concern centred on what they saw as the imposition from above of particular versions of ‘ good primary practice ’ and the relationship between teachers ' allegiance to these and their career prospects . |
| 20 | ‘ She insisted she 'd seen you heading out through the woods at about half-past nine , shortly before she missed it . |
| 21 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 22 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 23 | The latest talks , which began with a meeting planned between the flight attendants union and management on Wednesday to discuss a new labour contract are not expected to produce firm proposals and the next bid for United Airlines may not get off the ground until well into 1990 . |
| 24 | Patrons please not that a buffet can be served after the show for up to 50 people provided reasonable advance notice is given . |
| 25 | Girlfriend Helena Christiansen screamed as the INXS singer writhed in agony at her feet after the accident at 5am outside Copenhagen 's Jazz House Club . |
| 26 | It is thought that this would have increased the flow of heat to the base of the lithosphere sufficiently to cause a phase change in the uppermost continental mantle after a delay of up to 70 Ma ( the time taken for heat to be conducted from the base of the lithosphere to just below the Moho ) . |
| 27 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 28 | ONE of the more abiding human mysteries is why the English — a proverbially tight-lipped and stiff-necked race — should have excelled in the louche world of the theatre for upwards of half a millennium . |
| 29 | Russia could get the first half of its share ( half , in turn , of the total of up to $1 billion ) as early as May . |
| 30 | The region of interest later became focused on the period from the top of the backswing to shortly after the impact with the ball . |