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

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1 He approached Tallis , drawing his fur cloak tighter round his chest .
2 Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there .
3 Table 3 and Table 4 show the means and standard deviations of Yes and No response times respectively for each condition .
4 Ian Bannen instead of Andrew Cruickshank .
5 Using this technique these workers reported a right field advantage both with unilateral and with bilateral word presentation and attributed their results to " greater transmission fidelity and/or lesser transmission time of the shorter pathway to the left , verbal , hemisphere ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ) .
6 There are now a number of other women artists groups here in Berlin and in Germany .
7 Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi .
8 There had been a budget deficit ever since 1914 , rising in the case of Russia to 81 per cent in 1917 .
9 Compagnie des Machines Bull SA got a most dispiriting Christmas present on Christmas Eve when the US General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals snatched the $740.3m Desktop IV US Air Force personal computer contract away from Bull 's Buffalo Grove , Illinois-based Zenith Data Systems .
10 Riddick Bowe , who fights world champion Evander Holyfield here on Friday night , is almost certain to renege on the deal to give Lewis the first defence if he wins .
11 Use these every time they go out in the sun and you 'll help reduce the risk of serious skin damage later in life .
12 Despite this concern , from the point of view of health care planning , the principle of funding authorities basically on a weighted per capita basis , with no allowance for cross-boundary flow , is to be welcomed .
13 ICI alert : A toxic alert was sounded at ICI Wilton yesterday after a leak of acetic acid on the polyester intermediates site .
14 ACTRESS Cara Konig makes her West End debut tonight in Our Song , seducing Peter O'Toole in Keith Waterhouse 's new play .
15 In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern .
16 Marguerite Trompeau , who owns La Fontaine just outside Vichy , supplied the welcoming lunch of tripe , Charolais beef grilled over an open fire , cheese and a dessert .
17 The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers .
18 It is the kind of face you only see outlined high in a woodland canopy late at night .
19 If the negotiators of the Treaty had truly intended intergovernmental cooperation to be means by which the Community would develop into a Union , they would not have involved EEC institutions directly in this process .
20 The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and characteristics of non-deglutitive motor activity inthe normal human oesophagus and to study the relation of this oesophageal motor activity to motility patterns elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract .
21 twelve months ' M O T just to what to pay what the lad had offered it
22 Men with a low body mass index in later life were relatively protected against the susceptibility to glucose intolerance stemming from their low birth weights , while 17% of those of low birth weight but with a high body mass index later in life were frankly diabetic .
23 For the USA ( whose stock markets open roughly when the Helsinki Stock Exchange closes ) and the world index , there was a significant positive correlation with returns on FOX index futures only for lagged values of US and world index returns .
24 The fast-expanding group made £12.2 million before tax and also committed £59 million of capital spending , including £31 million on its new printing operations just outside Madrid , which should start printing Hola and Hello magazines next month .
25 Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House .
26 It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue .
27 But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia .
28 Best to travel with a local , because there are quicksands ; and you should check tide times carefully before setting out .
29 Companies profit from access to a network of university expertise far beyond individual scheme programmes and graduate associates mature rapidly , Dr Burge .
30 Companies profit from access to a network of university expertise far beyond individual scheme programmes and graduate associates mature rapidly , Dr Burge .
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